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- catalog abstract "Publication of this long-awaited volume makes available for the first time in complete and accessible form the most important source of information on Lincoln's early life. For twenty-five years after the president's death William Herndon, his law partner, conducted interviews with and solicited letters from dozens of persons who knew Lincoln personally. Up to now, the valuable information he collected has been available only in a microfilm edition in the Library of Congress, of such poor quality that it has been rarely used, particularly since there was no table of contents or adequate index, and in collections at the Huntington Library and the Illinois State Historical Library. The only previous publication of Herndon's materials, more than a half century ago, contains less than 10 percent of the collection and is so unreliable that scholars have hesitated to use it. Douglas Wilson and Rodney Davis have earned the gratitude and admiration of scholars by taking on the daunting task of collating the collections in the three libraries, painstakingly deciphering the all but illegible handwriting of Herndon and some of his informants, and carefully documenting the entire work.".
- catalog alternative "Informants".
- catalog contributor b10437528.
- catalog contributor b10437529.
- catalog contributor b10437530.
- catalog contributor b10437531.
- catalog contributor b10437532.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Publication of this long-awaited volume makes available for the first time in complete and accessible form the most important source of information on Lincoln's early life. For twenty-five years after the president's death William Herndon, his law partner, conducted interviews with and solicited letters from dozens of persons who knew Lincoln personally. Up to now, the valuable information he collected has been available only in a microfilm edition in the Library of Congress, of such poor quality that it has been rarely used, particularly since there was no table of contents or adequate index, and in collections at the Huntington Library and the Illinois State Historical Library. The only previous publication of Herndon's materials, more than a half century ago, contains less than 10 percent of the collection and is so unreliable that scholars have hesitated to use it. Douglas Wilson and Rodney Davis have earned the gratitude and admiration of scholars by taking on the daunting task of collating the collections in the three libraries, painstakingly deciphering the all but illegible handwriting of Herndon and some of his informants, and carefully documenting the entire work.".
- catalog extent "xxxii, 827 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0252023285 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog subject "973.7/092 21".
- catalog subject "E457 .H59 1997".
- catalog subject "Herndon, William Henry, 1818-1891 Archives.".
- catalog subject "Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Archives.".
- catalog subject "Weik, Jesse William, 1857-1930 Archives.".
- catalog title "Herndon's informants : letters, interviews, and statements about Abraham Lincoln / edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis with the assistance of Terry Wilson.".
- catalog title "Informants".
- catalog type "Archives. fast".
- catalog type "text".