Herndon on Lincoln : letters

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Label

Herndon on Lincoln : letters

Title remainder

letters

Statement of responsibility

William H. Herndon ; edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis

Creator

• Herndon, William Henry, 1818-1891

Contributor

• Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.), Lincoln Studies Center
• Wilson, Douglas L., (Douglas Lawson), 1935-
• Davis, Rodney O.

Author

• Herndon, William Henry, 1818-1891

Editor

• Wilson, Douglas L., (Douglas Lawson), 1935-
• Davis, Rodney O.

Subject

• Herndon, William Henry, 1818-1891
• Herndon, William Henry, 1818-1891 -- Correspondence
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• Presidents
• Presidents -- United States -- Biography
• United States
• Personal correspondence
• Biographies

Genre

• Biography
• Personal correspondence
• Correspondence
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

After Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, William H. Herndon began work on a brief, "subjective" biography of his former law partner, but his research turned up such unexpected and often startling information that it became a lifelong obsession. The biography finally published in 1889, Herndon's Lincoln, was a collaboration with Jesse W. Weik in which Herndon provided the materials and Weik did almost all the writing. For this reason, and because so much of what Herndon had to say about Lincoln was not included in the biography, David Donald has observed, "To understand Herndon's own rather peculiar approach to Lincoln biography, one must go back to his letters." An exhaustive collection of what Herndon was told by others about Lincoln was published by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis in Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln . In this new volume, Wilson and Davis have produced a comprehensive edition of what Herndon himself wrote about Lincoln in his own letters. Because of Herndon's close association with Lincoln, his intimate acquaintance with his partner's legal and political careers, and because he sought out informants who knew Lincoln and preserved information that might otherwise have been lost, his letters have become an indispensable resource for Lincoln biography. Unfiltered by a collaborator and rendered in Herndon's own distinctive voice, these letters constitute a matchless trove of primary source material. Herndon on Lincoln: Letters is a must for libraries, research institutions, and students of a towering American figure and his times

Member of

• Works., Selections
• Knox College Lincoln Studies Center series

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

MNU

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E457

LC item number

.H579 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The Knox College Lincoln Studies Center series