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            <titleproper>Guide to the Abraham Lincoln Collection
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            <titleproper localtype="filing">Lincoln (Abraham) Collection</titleproper>
            <author>by Beinecke Staff</author>
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            <publisher>Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library</publisher>
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               <addressline>P. O. Box 208330</addressline>
               <addressline>New Haven, CT 06520-8330</addressline>
               <addressline localtype="telephone">(203) 432-2977 </addressline>
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            <date>July 1997</date>
            <num>GEN MSS 257</num>
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               <p>Boxes: 1-4, bsd, folder 25-bsd, folder 26, bsd, folder 28</p>
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               <p>This collection contains <num localtype="objects" altrender="16">16</num> published digital objects. And those objects are comprised of <num localtype="files" altrender="33">33</num> digital files.</p>
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         <abstract id="aspace_952b3159f21d2f629424f6763b6e7efc">Correspondence and writings by and about Abraham Lincoln, and a gold pen used by Lincoln. 4 ALS from Lincoln to Benjamin F. James, William M. Dickson, and to an unidentified recipient. Writings by Lincoln include an autograph praecipe issued by Lincoln for writ in his first law case, "David Woolridge vs. Hawthorne", and a fragment of a speech on slavery. Also present is a letter by Edwin Booth to Colonel A. Badeau concerning Lincoln's assassination by his brother, John Wilkes Booth, two days earlier; two volumes containing letters and writings by and about members of Lincoln's cabinet, including Andrew Johnson, Edwin M. Stanton, a letter to W. P. Fessenden regarding the attack on Petersburg, and Gideon Welles' autographed manuscript recollections on the formation of Lincoln's cabinet. Accompanied by the gold pen used by Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation, with accompanying documentation.</abstract>
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         <p>Ongoing collection of documents acquired by gift and purchase from various sources. Type of accession (gift or purchase) and date of acquisition is noted in the box-and-folder list. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.</p>
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         <p>The Abraham Lincoln Collection is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.</p>
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         <p>Abraham Lincoln Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.</p>
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         <p>The materials are open for research.</p>
         <p>Box 4 and broadside folder 28: Restricted fragile material.  Reference surrogates have been substituted in the main files.  For further information consult the appropriate curator.</p>
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         <p>This finding aid was produced from previously existing cards in the Manuscripts Catalog, or from another inventory. All pertinent bibliographical information has been retained. If the collection also contains unlisted or unsorted material, it has been noted in the box-and-folder list. This finding aid will be updated periodically to account for new materials that may be added to the collection. The date of the most recent update is noted on the title page. For information on material that may have been added since the last update, please consult the Public Service Desk.</p>
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         <p>This finding aid encompasses accessions of single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts and other papers, by or pertaining to Abraham Lincoln, which the library has chosen to group and list as an artificial collection. Material has been organized into two series: <ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="ref11">I, Gift of A. Conger Goodyear</ref> and <ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="ref75">II, Additional Materials</ref>, materials acquired from various sources.</p>
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            <part localtype="topical">History</part>
            <part localtype="temporal">Civil War, 1861-1865</part>
            <part localtype="topical">Campaigns</part>
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               <p>Gift of A. Conger Goodyear, 1953</p>
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                  <p>Discusses the possibility of securing enough votes in the Illinois State Convention to nominate him as Whig Candidate for Congress</p>
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                  <p>Bound in dark green morocco</p>
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                        <p>Autograph praecipe issued by Lincoln for writ in his first law case, "David Woolridge vs. Hawthorne"</p>
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                  <p>Bound in three quarters green morocco</p>
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                        <p>Fragment of a speech on slavery</p>
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                  <p>Refers to Senator Stephen Douglas. Bound in dark green morocco</p>
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                  <p>Also bound in the volume are a manuscript transcription of the letter and a play bill of the performance at Ford's Theater the night of the assassination. Bound in three quarters dark green morocco</p>
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                  <p>Bound in dark green morocco. Items in volume are analyzed below in the order in which they appear</p>
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               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214590"
                  id="ref27"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Hamlin, Hannibal. ALS to M. Titcomb, Bangor, [Maine]</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1879 May 17" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1879-05-17">1879 May 17</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
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                  <scopecontent id="aspace_17e6277bd6c66411e8e9e224823c2eeb">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Refers to eventful years of the Republic through which he has passed, etc.</p>
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               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214591"
                  id="ref29"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Harrington, George. ALS to William P. Fessenden, Bern, Switzerland</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1868 Sept 26" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1868-09-26">1868 Sept 26</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                  </did>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214592"
                  id="ref30"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Seward, William H. ALS to [Samuel] Blatchford, Washington, D.C.</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="[1862] Dec 22" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1862-12-22">[1862] Dec 22</datesingle>
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                  <scopecontent id="aspace_417dc54a988635a1d8c0e104949692f3">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Refers to a Cabinet crisis which is past, the Trent Affair, the stability of the country, and the loyalty of the people. Says that he has urged Weed to go to Europe. Asks his correspondent to send him some wine</p>
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               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214593"
                  id="ref32"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Johnson, Andrew. ALS to William M. Lowry, Nashville, Tenn.</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1856 Dec 14" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1856-12-14">1856 Dec 14</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_a29cc9c93717243cb4dfce1cb4819ef0">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Confidential political letter, refers to possibility of his going to the Senate, etc.</p>
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               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214594"
                  id="ref34"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Seward, William H. autograph ms. signed of his "Oration on the Probable Permanency of the Union" delivered at the Commencement at Union College in 1820 as Representative of the Adelphi Society</unittitle>
                     <unitdate label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">n.d.</unitdate>
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                  <scopecontent id="aspace_9b821bf76684b20966d1faf2e5c3b0d2">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Seward was at this time only nineteen years of age. He entered Union College in 1816, taught school for six months in 1819, and returned to college to graduate in 1820. This paper shows Seward's strong support of the permanency of the Union</p>
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               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214595"
                  id="ref36"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Chase, Salmon P. ALS to Governor Nathaniel Prentice Banks, Springfield, Mass.</unittitle>
                     <unitdate label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">1860 [i.e. 61] Jan 7</unitdate>
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                  <scopecontent id="aspace_bcbbbeb656699c76b90b80f82d6dd4ff">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Chase refers to being in Springfield at Lincoln's request and his impressions on meeting Lincoln. The object of the meeting was to discuss Chase's possible inclusion in Lincoln's cabinet</p>
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               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214596"
                  id="ref38"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Fessenden, William Pitt. ALS to his son Francis Fessenden, Portland [Maine]</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1865 Jun 6" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1865-06-06">1865 Jun 6</datesingle>
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                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_4cb267eb4cf8c2ce4424cd5bbd668f7d">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Refers to Sherman's "behaving like a fool" and other matters of public interest</p>
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               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214597"
                  id="ref40"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>McCulloch, Hugh. ANS to Gideon Welles, [Washington, D.C.]</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1866 Mar 15[?]"
                                         label="creation"
                                         unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1866-03-15">1866 Mar 15[?]</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                  </did>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214598"
                  id="ref41"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Stanton, Edwin McMasters. ALS to [Charles Anderson] Dana, Washington</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1862 Feb 2" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1862-02-02">1862 Feb 2</datesingle>
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                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_a85dab9766a64e9868b00c7da9d83d94">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Refers to the military operations. Says that the War Department is "poisoned with treason or helpless from imbecility". Proposes to commence the reorganization.</p>
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               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214599"
                  id="ref43"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Harrington, George. ALS to W. P. Fessenden, [Washington]</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1864 Aug 1" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1864-08-01">1864 Aug 1</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_c1d5a8756f47c955f72f4237925dbfa0">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>The letter concerns the attack on Petersburg and the blowing up of the "Crater"</p>
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               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214600"
                  id="ref45"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Cameron, Simon. ALS to W. P. Fessenden, Washington</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1864 Sep 10" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1864-09-10">1864 Sep 10</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_11772a9d72d4bf3dffa57943e3436f6a">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Says "the campaign will be short and must be urged with vigor"</p>
                  </scopecontent>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214601"
                  id="ref47"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Smith, Caleb Blood. ALS to [Richard] Wallach, Connersville [Ind.]</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1848 Oct 9" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1848-10-09">1848 Oct 9</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_41999794befda36eadfa720bd7c3a0f5">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Refers to the Free Soil Movement, General Taylor, etc.</p>
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               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214602"
                  id="ref49"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Blair, Montgomery. ALS to Gideon Welles, Washington</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1874 Jan 22" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1874-01-22">1874 Jan 22</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_0b4434fbddf823eca500e5dad6a6c550">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Speaks of Seward and contrasts his character with that of Lincoln. This letter shows plainly Blair's antagonism to Seward and relates to his intrigues in reation to Fort Sumter, etc.</p>
                  </scopecontent>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214603"
                  id="ref51"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Lee, J. ALS to Montgomery Blair, Washington</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="[1874] Jan 22" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1874-01-22">[1874] Jan 22</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                  </did>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214604"
                  id="ref52"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Bates, Edward. ALS to Gideon Welles, Washington</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1863 Jun 6" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1863-06-06">1863 Jun 6</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_6c1ae11eea1d848bcbc0bc3b6a7f9248">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>With franked addressed envelope, gives his views on how to crush the Rebellion</p>
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               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214605"
                  id="ref54"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Speed, James. ALS to Abraham Lincoln, Louisville, KY</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1862 Nov 10" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1862-11-10">1862 Nov 10</datesingle>
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                     <daoset altrender="/repositories/11/digital_objects/131417">
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/2026837"
                             identifier="oid:2026837"
                             linktitle="2 images"
                             linkrole="text-json"
                             show="embed"/>
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1101969/full/!150,150/0/default.jpg"
                             identifier="oid:2026837"
                             linktitle="p. [1]"
                             linkrole="image-thumbnail"
                             show="embed"/>
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2026837"
                             identifier="oid:2026837"
                             linktitle="p. [1]"
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                        <descriptivenote>
                           <p>Speed, James. ALS to Abraham Lincoln, Louisville, KY</p>
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                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_25eef7bc2651441dadde012fec08669f">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Regarding the appointment of a judge</p>
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               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214606"
                  id="ref56"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Miscellaneous material found in volume 1</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1864-1928" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <daterange>
                           <fromdate standarddate="1864">1864</fromdate>
                           <todate standarddate="1928">1928</todate>
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                                label="Mixed Materials"
                                localtype="box">1</container>
                     <container id="aspace_ref56_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref56_c1">9</container>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_bef6685c37ac250d3a236447672b0028">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Two engraved portraits of Salmon P. Chase, pieces of bookseller's catalogue, and clippings: one carrying an article on "The President's Plan of Conciliation -- The Greased Cartridge Policy" from 1864, and another from 1928 about a Lincoln letter</p>
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               </c>
            </c>
            <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214607"
               id="ref59"
               level="file">
               <did>
                  <unittitle>Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet, bound volume of letters and documents by and about members of his cabinet. Vol. 2</unittitle>
                  <container altrender="/repositories/11/top_containers/19358 /locations/4051"
                             containerid="39002099281215"
                             id="aspace_ref59_c1"
                             label="Mixed Materials"
                             localtype="box">2</container>
                  <container id="aspace_ref59_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref59_c1">10</container>
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               <scopecontent id="aspace_f9b2023ea98852e789a471537ce24c25">
                  <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                  <p>Bound in dark green morocco. Items in volume are analyzed below in the order in which they appear</p>
               </scopecontent>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214608"
                  id="ref60"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Welles, Giddeon. Autograph ms, recollections in regard to the formation of Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet</unittitle>
                     <unitdate label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">n.d.</unitdate>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_3bb62def6bc21f5f914fe1ec44e7f104">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Contains much information about the negotiations and discussions on appointments to the Cabinet following Lincoln's election</p>
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               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214609"
                  id="ref62"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Speed, Joshua Fry. ALS to Gideon Welles, Louisville, Kentucky</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1872 Aug 8" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1872-08-08">1872 Aug 8</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_6013d9895e246280e466263fcfcfe0be">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Denies statements made in Lamon's "Life of Lincoln" in reference to Lincoln's offering a cabinet position to Guthrie</p>
                  </scopecontent>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214610"
                  id="ref64"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Babcock, James Fairchild. 2 ALS to Gideon Welles, New Haven, Conn.</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1868 Feb" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1868-02">1868 Feb</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_527cd7258b8bc5329a9fdeaef59ab41d">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Refers to conversations with Lincoln on cabinet appointments</p>
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               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214611"
                  id="ref66"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Davis, David. ALS to Gideon Welles, Bloomington, Ill.</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1872 Jul 27" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1872-07-27">1872 Jul 27</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_49447e5ca0f903ff8c45b38a6f9f4b49">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Discusses Lincoln's Cabinet appointments and Speed's statement in regard to the reported offer to Guthrie</p>
                  </scopecontent>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214612"
                  id="ref68"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Swett, Leonard. ALS to Thurlow Weed, Bloomington, Ill.</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1860 Dec 10" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1860-12-10">1860 Dec 10</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_22561ff18012a37f88ca6feb8d484ea6">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>On second sheet is an ALS from David Davis to Thurlow Weed, discussing Lincoln's invitation to visit him at Springfield and advises Weed to accept, accompanied by typescript copies of both letters</p>
                  </scopecontent>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214613"
                  id="ref70"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Yates, Richard. 2 LS to Schuyler Colfax, Springfield, Ill.</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1861 Feb" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1861-02">1861 Feb</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_cf09c961b1219054afbc48d566f226f5">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Tells of recommending Colfax to Lincoln for a cabinet appintment and of journey to Washington as a companion and secretary to Lincoln. Yates includes a copy of his letter to Lincoln recommending Colfax.</p>
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               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214614"
                  id="ref72"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Miscellaneous material found in volume 2: typescripts of two letters</unittitle>
                     <unitdate label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">n.d.</unitdate>
                     <container altrender="/repositories/11/top_containers/19358 /locations/4051"
                                containerid="39002099281215"
                                id="aspace_ref72_c1"
                                label="Mixed Materials"
                                localtype="box">2</container>
                     <container id="aspace_ref72_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref72_c1">11</container>
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               </c>
            </c>
         </c>
         <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214615"
            id="ref75"
            level="series">
            <did>
               <unittitle>Additional Materials</unittitle>
               <unitid>Series II</unitid>
            </did>
            <scopecontent id="aspace_2125697a3e128b8116fcd5700d8476fc">
               <head>Scope and Contents</head>
               <p>Other materials received from various sources</p>
            </scopecontent>
            <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214617"
               id="ref77"
               level="file">
               <did>
                  <unittitle>Lincoln, Abraham. ALS to William M. Dickson, Springfield, Ill.</unittitle>
                  <unitdatestructured altrender="1859 Oct 17" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                     <datesingle standarddate="1859-10-17">1859 Oct 17</datesingle>
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                  <container altrender="/repositories/11/top_containers/19358 /locations/4051"
                             containerid="39002099281215"
                             id="aspace_ref77_c1"
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                             localtype="box">2</container>
                  <container id="aspace_ref77_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref77_c1">12</container>
                  <daoset altrender="/repositories/11/digital_objects/131418">
                     <dao actuate="onrequest"
                          audience="external"
                          daotype="unknown"
                          href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/2026838"
                          identifier="oid:2026838"
                          linktitle="1 images"
                          linkrole="text-json"
                          show="embed"/>
                     <dao actuate="onrequest"
                          audience="external"
                          daotype="unknown"
                          href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1101971/full/!150,150/0/default.jpg"
                          identifier="oid:2026838"
                          linktitle="1 images"
                          linkrole="image-thumbnail"
                          show="embed"/>
                     <dao actuate="onrequest"
                          audience="external"
                          daotype="unknown"
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                          identifier="oid:2026838"
                          linktitle="1 images"
                          linkrole="text-html"
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                     <descriptivenote>
                        <p>Lincoln, Abraham. ALS to William M. Dickson, Springfield, Ill.</p>
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               </did>
               <scopecontent id="aspace_70b1f27a5d301a4ee622e2d12f60c0c6">
                  <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                  <p>Mounted on a leaf from an album, with related newspaper clippings Gift, 1955</p>
               </scopecontent>
            </c>
            <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214618"
               id="ref79"
               level="file">
               <did>
                  <unittitle>Lincoln, Abraham. ALS to William M. Dickson, Springfield Ill.</unittitle>
                  <unitdatestructured altrender="1860 Jun 7" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                     <datesingle standarddate="1860-06-07">1860 Jun 7</datesingle>
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                             localtype="box">2</container>
                  <container id="aspace_ref79_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref79_c1">13</container>
                  <daoset altrender="/repositories/11/digital_objects/131419">
                     <dao actuate="onrequest"
                          audience="external"
                          daotype="unknown"
                          href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/2026839"
                          identifier="oid:2026839"
                          linktitle="3 images"
                          linkrole="text-json"
                          show="embed"/>
                     <dao actuate="onrequest"
                          audience="external"
                          daotype="unknown"
                          href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1101972/full/!150,150/0/default.jpg"
                          identifier="oid:2026839"
                          linktitle="p. [1]"
                          linkrole="image-thumbnail"
                          show="embed"/>
                     <dao actuate="onrequest"
                          audience="external"
                          daotype="unknown"
                          href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2026839"
                          identifier="oid:2026839"
                          linktitle="p. [1]"
                          linkrole="text-html"
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                     <descriptivenote>
                        <p>Lincoln, Abraham. ALS to William M. Dickson, Springfield Ill.</p>
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               </did>
               <scopecontent id="aspace_2b3a150914ba87d7099e5c77602d9122">
                  <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                  <p>Concerning a bill claimed by Johnson, Saunders &amp; Co., Cincinnati Gift, 1955</p>
               </scopecontent>
            </c>
            <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214619"
               id="ref81"
               level="file">
               <did>
                  <unittitle>Lincoln, Abraham. ANS to an unidentified recipient, [Washington], and five photographs of Lincoln</unittitle>
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                             label="Mixed Materials"
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                  <container id="aspace_ref81_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref81_c1">14</container>
                  <daoset altrender="/repositories/11/digital_objects/131420">
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                          audience="external"
                          daotype="unknown"
                          href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/2026840"
                          identifier="oid:2026840"
                          linktitle="1 images"
                          linkrole="text-json"
                          show="embed"/>
                     <dao actuate="onrequest"
                          audience="external"
                          daotype="unknown"
                          href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1101975/full/!150,150/0/default.jpg"
                          identifier="oid:2026840"
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                          identifier="oid:2026840"
                          linktitle="1 images"
                          linkrole="text-html"
                          show="new"/>
                     <descriptivenote>
                        <p>Lincoln, Abraham. ANS to an unidentified recipient, [Washington], and five photographs of Lincoln</p>
                     </descriptivenote>
                  </daoset>
               </did>
               <scopecontent id="aspace_a48095a50112b2cc41e49b47963370a5">
                  <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                  <p>ANS ordering a discharge from service Accompanied by a clipping describing his visit to New Haven Gift, 1955</p>
               </scopecontent>
            </c>
            <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214620"
               id="ref83"
               level="file">
               <did>
                  <unittitle>Bishop, Albert Webb. ALS to Abraham Lincoln, Washington, D.C.</unittitle>
                  <unitdatestructured altrender="1865 Feb 13" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                     <datesingle standarddate="1865-02-13">1865 Feb 13</datesingle>
                  </unitdatestructured>
                  <container altrender="/repositories/11/top_containers/19358 /locations/4051"
                             containerid="39002099281215"
                             id="aspace_ref83_c1"
                             label="Mixed Materials"
                             localtype="box">2</container>
                  <container id="aspace_ref83_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref83_c1">15</container>
                  <daoset altrender="/repositories/11/digital_objects/131421">
                     <dao actuate="onrequest"
                          audience="external"
                          daotype="unknown"
                          href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/2026841"
                          identifier="oid:2026841"
                          linktitle="4 images"
                          linkrole="text-json"
                          show="embed"/>
                     <dao actuate="onrequest"
                          audience="external"
                          daotype="unknown"
                          href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1101976/full/!150,150/0/default.jpg"
                          identifier="oid:2026841"
                          linktitle="p. [1]"
                          linkrole="image-thumbnail"
                          show="embed"/>
                     <dao actuate="onrequest"
                          audience="external"
                          daotype="unknown"
                          href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2026841"
                          identifier="oid:2026841"
                          linktitle="p. [1]"
                          linkrole="text-html"
                          show="new"/>
                     <descriptivenote>
                        <p>Bishop, Albert Webb. ALS to Abraham Lincoln, Washington, D.C.</p>
                     </descriptivenote>
                  </daoset>
               </did>
               <scopecontent id="aspace_da57e72b9972c7fc56cd6992d573e049">
                  <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                  <p>Endorsed by Lincoln: "Will the Secretary of War and Gen. Halleck please consider the application?... Feb 15 1865"; also endorsed by Secretary Stanton, asks permission for a stock of goods to be transported to Arkansas</p>
               </scopecontent>
            </c>
            <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214621"
               id="ref85"
               level="file">
               <did>
                  <unittitle>The gold pen used by Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation in the Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., 1863 Jan 1</unittitle>
                  <unitdate label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">n.d.</unitdate>
               </did>
               <scopecontent id="aspace_a6609b1ce83b7e5f03b58ac5568114b2">
                  <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                  <p>Gift, 1965</p>
               </scopecontent>
               <relatedmaterial id="aspace_f482c5207c84bfb55268572537e2ed76">
                  <head>Related Archival Materials note</head>
                  <p>
                     <ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="ref112">See: Oversize, box 3, folder 24</ref>
                  </p>
               </relatedmaterial>
            </c>
            <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214622"
               id="ref88"
               level="file">
               <did>
                  <unittitle>Documents Accompanying the Pen</unittitle>
               </did>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214623"
                  id="ref89"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Autographed photograph of Louis Burgdorf, Washington, D.C.</unittitle>
                     <unitdate label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">n.d.</unitdate>
                     <container altrender="/repositories/11/top_containers/19358 /locations/4051"
                                containerid="39002099281215"
                                id="aspace_ref89_c1"
                                label="Mixed Materials"
                                localtype="box">2</container>
                     <container id="aspace_ref89_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref89_c1">16</container>
                     <daoset altrender="/repositories/11/digital_objects/131532">
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/10281105"
                             identifier="oid:10281105"
                             linktitle="2 images"
                             linkrole="text-json"
                             show="embed"/>
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1468112/full/!150,150/0/default.jpg"
                             identifier="oid:10281105"
                             linktitle="Recto"
                             linkrole="image-thumbnail"
                             show="embed"/>
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/10281105"
                             identifier="oid:10281105"
                             linktitle="Recto"
                             linkrole="text-html"
                             show="new"/>
                        <descriptivenote>
                           <p>Autographed photograph of Louis Burgdorf, Washington, D.C.</p>
                        </descriptivenote>
                     </daoset>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_519ef84a6438c10283e01399fb63b044">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Gift, 1965</p>
                  </scopecontent>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214624"
                  id="ref91"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>ALS by Daniel N. Morgan, ex-U.S. Treasurer, Bridgeport Conn. To Mrs. W. B. Tucker, Lansing, Michigan.</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1928 May 29" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1928-05-29">1928 May 29</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                     <container altrender="/repositories/11/top_containers/19358 /locations/4051"
                                containerid="39002099281215"
                                id="aspace_ref91_c1"
                                label="Mixed Materials"
                                localtype="box">2</container>
                     <container id="aspace_ref91_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref91_c1">17</container>
                     <daoset altrender="/repositories/11/digital_objects/131533">
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/10287494"
                             identifier="oid:10287494"
                             linktitle="1 images"
                             linkrole="text-json"
                             show="embed"/>
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1468114/full/!150,150/0/default.jpg"
                             identifier="oid:10287494"
                             linktitle="l. [1]"
                             linkrole="image-thumbnail"
                             show="embed"/>
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/10287494"
                             identifier="oid:10287494"
                             linktitle="l. [1]"
                             linkrole="text-html"
                             show="new"/>
                        <descriptivenote>
                           <p>ALS by Daniel N. Morgan, ex-U.S. Treasurer, Bridgeport Conn. To Mrs. W. B. Tucker, Lansing, Michigan.</p>
                        </descriptivenote>
                     </daoset>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_50055c76c16ffe075f8cc46b7e09adea">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Gift, 1965</p>
                  </scopecontent>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214625"
                  id="ref93"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Photocopy of signed and witnessed affirmation by Louis Burgdorf, Washington D.C.</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1894 June 27" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1894-06-27">1894 June 27</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                     <physloc id="aspace_639d505068fd242acc49b41048a8fb89">
                        <ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="ref114">See: Oversize, broadside, folder 25</ref>
                     </physloc>
                  </did>
                  <acqinfo id="aspace_079741dc8711d4c7a0bce0afadcec085">
                     <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
                     <p>Gift, 1965</p>
                  </acqinfo>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214628"
                  id="ref96"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Photocopy of testification, signed by U.S. Treasury officials, Washington, D.C.</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1894 June 28" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1894-06-28">1894 June 28</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                     <physloc id="aspace_031977bcd44af674e9b8665d043ebd13">
                        <ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="ref116">See: Oversize, broadside, folder 26</ref>
                     </physloc>
                  </did>
                  <acqinfo id="aspace_b0d64f589eb557f80937fe234118c334">
                     <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
                     <p>Gift, 1965</p>
                  </acqinfo>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214631"
                  id="ref99"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>LS by George S. Godard, State Librarian, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Conn, to Mrs. W. B. Tucker, Lansing, Michigan</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1928 June 11" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1928-06-11">1928 June 11</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                     <container altrender="/repositories/11/top_containers/19358 /locations/4051"
                                containerid="39002099281215"
                                id="aspace_ref99_c1"
                                label="Mixed Materials"
                                localtype="box">2</container>
                     <container id="aspace_ref99_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref99_c1">18</container>
                     <daoset altrender="/repositories/11/digital_objects/131534">
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/10290136"
                             identifier="oid:10290136"
                             linktitle="1 images"
                             linkrole="text-json"
                             show="embed"/>
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1468115/full/!150,150/0/default.jpg"
                             identifier="oid:10290136"
                             linktitle="l. [1]"
                             linkrole="image-thumbnail"
                             show="embed"/>
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/10290136"
                             identifier="oid:10290136"
                             linktitle="l. [1]"
                             linkrole="text-html"
                             show="new"/>
                        <descriptivenote>
                           <p>LS by George S. Godard, State Librarian, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Conn, to Mrs. W. B. Tucker, Lansing, Michigan</p>
                        </descriptivenote>
                     </daoset>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_f6ae93ef7b19aad1dcf6f2ebd1784f32">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Gift, 1965</p>
                  </scopecontent>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214632"
                  id="ref101"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Duplicate original affidavit (two pages) by Myra A. Tucker, at Lansing, Michigan; signed, witnessed and sworn to before Hiram J. De Vries, Notary Public, Ingham County, Michigan</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1928 Nov 28" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1928-11-28">1928 Nov 28</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                     <container altrender="/repositories/11/top_containers/19358 /locations/4051"
                                containerid="39002099281215"
                                id="aspace_ref101_c1"
                                label="Mixed Materials"
                                localtype="box">2</container>
                     <container id="aspace_ref101_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref101_c1">19</container>
                     <daoset altrender="/repositories/11/digital_objects/131535">
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/10291108"
                             identifier="oid:10291108"
                             linktitle="2 images"
                             linkrole="text-json"
                             show="embed"/>
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1468116/full/!150,150/0/default.jpg"
                             identifier="oid:10291108"
                             linktitle="l. [1]"
                             linkrole="image-thumbnail"
                             show="embed"/>
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/10291108"
                             identifier="oid:10291108"
                             linktitle="l. [1]"
                             linkrole="text-html"
                             show="new"/>
                        <descriptivenote>
                           <p>Duplicate original affidavit (two pages) by Myra A. Tucker, at Lansing, Michigan; signed, witnessed and sworn to before Hiram J. De Vries, Notary Public, Ingham County, Michigan</p>
                        </descriptivenote>
                     </daoset>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_26ab879752393633777b47eab9f7b101">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Gift, 1965</p>
                  </scopecontent>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214633"
                  id="ref103"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>History of the pen</unittitle>
                     <unitdate label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">n.d.</unitdate>
                     <container altrender="/repositories/11/top_containers/19358 /locations/4051"
                                containerid="39002099281215"
                                id="aspace_ref103_c1"
                                label="Mixed Materials"
                                localtype="box">2</container>
                     <container id="aspace_ref103_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref103_c1">20</container>
                     <daoset altrender="/repositories/11/digital_objects/131536">
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/10291109"
                             identifier="oid:10291109"
                             linktitle="3 images"
                             linkrole="text-json"
                             show="embed"/>
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1468118/full/!150,150/0/default.jpg"
                             identifier="oid:10291109"
                             linktitle="l. [1]"
                             linkrole="image-thumbnail"
                             show="embed"/>
                        <dao actuate="onrequest"
                             audience="external"
                             daotype="unknown"
                             href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/10291109"
                             identifier="oid:10291109"
                             linktitle="l. [1]"
                             linkrole="text-html"
                             show="new"/>
                        <descriptivenote>
                           <p>History of the pen</p>
                        </descriptivenote>
                     </daoset>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_93869c3a10b944ef25f1abe8815406b0">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Gift, 1965</p>
                  </scopecontent>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214634"
                  id="ref105"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Photocopy of frontispiece, and pages 45-46, Anderson Galleries, New York, NY catalogue sale</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1929 Feb 27" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1929-02-27">1929 Feb 27</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                     <container altrender="/repositories/11/top_containers/19358 /locations/4051"
                                containerid="39002099281215"
                                id="aspace_ref105_c1"
                                label="Mixed Materials"
                                localtype="box">2</container>
                     <container id="aspace_ref105_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref105_c1">21</container>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_004edc9645949fc4e5e7d28a564b4fb4">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Gift, 1965</p>
                  </scopecontent>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214635"
                  id="ref107"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Photocopies of pages 73 and 74, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, NY catalogue sale</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1951 Nov 13" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1951-11-13">1951 Nov 13</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                     <container altrender="/repositories/11/top_containers/19358 /locations/4051"
                                containerid="39002099281215"
                                id="aspace_ref107_c1"
                                label="Mixed Materials"
                                localtype="box">2</container>
                     <container id="aspace_ref107_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref107_c1">22</container>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_2ae7c5c89b4470e98f2202d6f2a3615f">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Gift, 1965</p>
                  </scopecontent>
               </c>
               <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214636"
                  id="ref109"
                  level="file">
                  <did>
                     <unittitle>Photocopies of pages 39-41, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, NY catalogue sale</unittitle>
                     <unitdatestructured altrender="1958 Nov 5" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                        <datesingle standarddate="1958-11-05">1958 Nov 5</datesingle>
                     </unitdatestructured>
                     <container altrender="/repositories/11/top_containers/19358 /locations/4051"
                                containerid="39002099281215"
                                id="aspace_ref109_c1"
                                label="Mixed Materials"
                                localtype="box">2</container>
                     <container id="aspace_ref109_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref109_c1">23</container>
                  </did>
                  <scopecontent id="aspace_56a5e71b57d1ef0f1e84ee64da35b284">
                     <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                     <p>Gift, 1965</p>
                  </scopecontent>
               </c>
            </c>
         </c>
         <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214637"
            id="ref111"
            level="series">
            <did>
               <unittitle>Oversize</unittitle>
               <unitdate label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">n.d.</unitdate>
            </did>
            <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214638"
               id="ref112"
               level="file">
               <did>
                  <unittitle>The gold pen used by Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation in the Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., 1863 Jan 1</unittitle>
                  <unitdate label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">n.d.</unitdate>
                  <container altrender="/repositories/11/top_containers/19359 /locations/4051"
                             containerid="39002093768050"
                             id="aspace_ref112_c1"
                             label="Mixed Materials"
                             localtype="box">3</container>
                  <container id="aspace_ref112_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref112_c1">24</container>
                  <daoset altrender="/repositories/11/digital_objects/131371">
                     <dao actuate="onrequest"
                          audience="external"
                          daotype="unknown"
                          href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/manifests/2005512"
                          identifier="oid:2005512"
                          linktitle="2 images"
                          linkrole="text-json"
                          show="embed"/>
                     <dao actuate="onrequest"
                          audience="external"
                          daotype="unknown"
                          href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/1030368/full/!150,150/0/default.jpg"
                          identifier="oid:2005512"
                          linktitle="2 images"
                          linkrole="image-thumbnail"
                          show="embed"/>
                     <dao actuate="onrequest"
                          audience="external"
                          daotype="unknown"
                          href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2005512"
                          identifier="oid:2005512"
                          linktitle="2 images"
                          linkrole="text-html"
                          show="new"/>
                     <descriptivenote>
                        <p>The gold pen used by Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation in the Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., 1863 Jan 1</p>
                     </descriptivenote>
                  </daoset>
               </did>
               <acqinfo id="aspace_7637d52e20abfb76308c41c261a0cfa1">
                  <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
                  <p>Gift of Nathaiel Spear, Jr. (Yale 1919), 1965.</p>
               </acqinfo>
            </c>
            <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214639"
               id="ref114"
               level="file">
               <did>
                  <unittitle>Photocopy of signed and witnessed affirmation by Louis Burgdorf, Washington D.C.</unittitle>
                  <unitdatestructured altrender="1894 June 27" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                     <datesingle standarddate="1894-06-27">1894 June 27</datesingle>
                  </unitdatestructured>
                  <container altrender="/repositories/11/top_containers/19360 /locations/4051"
                             containerid="39002099281074"
                             id="aspace_ref114_c1"
                             label="Mixed Materials"
                             localtype="box">bsd, folder 25</container>
               </did>
               <scopecontent id="aspace_eaabb2b2128bfd95bc87839c08ffe132">
                  <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                  <p>Gift, 1965</p>
               </scopecontent>
            </c>
            <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214640"
               id="ref116"
               level="file">
               <did>
                  <unittitle>Photocopy of testification, signed by U.S. Treasury officials, Washington, D.C.</unittitle>
                  <unitdatestructured altrender="1894 June 28" label="creation" unitdatetype="inclusive">
                     <datesingle standarddate="1894-06-28">1894 June 28</datesingle>
                  </unitdatestructured>
                  <container altrender="/repositories/11/top_containers/19361 /locations/4051"
                             containerid="39002099281082"
                             id="aspace_ref116_c1"
                             label="Mixed Materials"
                             localtype="box">bsd, folder 26</container>
               </did>
               <scopecontent id="aspace_124345bf88c93fac2d704ed9cc0bf932">
                  <head>Scope and Contents</head>
                  <p>Gift, 1965</p>
               </scopecontent>
            </c>
         </c>
         <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214641"
            id="ref118"
            level="series">
            <did>
               <unittitle>Restricted Fragile Materials</unittitle>
            </did>
            <accessrestrict id="aspace_74a5364bf385d6b3617bed23f106d18c"
                            localtype="RestrictedFragileSpecColl">
               <head>Conditions Governing Access</head>
               <p>Restricted fragile material.  Reference surrogates have been substituted in the main files.  For further information consult the appropriate curator.</p>
            </accessrestrict>
            <c altrender="/repositories/11/archival_objects/214642"
               id="ref119"
               level="file">
               <did>
                  <unittitle>Box 1, folder 5</unittitle>
                  <container altrender="/repositories/11/top_containers/19362 /locations/4051"
                             containerid="39002093768068"
                             id="aspace_ref119_c1"
                             label="Mixed Materials"
                             localtype="box">4</container>
                  <container id="aspace_ref119_c2" localtype="folder" parent="aspace_ref119_c1">27</container>
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