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Journal

ofthe

Abraham Lincoln

Association

Volume 14, Number 1

Winter 1993

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Officers of the Abraham Lincoln Association

Frank J. Williams, President

Sally Bunn Schanbacher, Vice-President E. Duane Elbert, Secretary Fred B. Hoffmann, Treasurer

Publications Committee

Richard N. Current, Chair

Roger Bridges Cullom Davis Olive S. Foster Robert W. Johannsen

Thomas F. Schwartz and Mary Ellen McEUigott, Editors

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Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association

Volume 14, Number 1 Winter 1993

Message from the President

Frank J. Williams

The Lives of William Herndon

Charles B. Strozier

William H. Herndon and His Lincoln Informants 15

Douglas L. Wilson

"I have never had any doubt of your good intentions": 35

William Henry Herndon and Ward Hill Lamon as Described in Correspondence from the Robert T. Lincoln

Letterpress Volumes

Thomas E Schwartz

James Jay Monaghan's Lincoln Bibliography, 1839-1939: 55 A History

Thomas E Schwartz

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Abraham Lincoln Association

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dan Bannister Victor Lary

Molly Becker Ben Miller

Roger D. Bridges Susan Mogerman

Willard Bunn, Jr. Mark E. Neely, Jr.

John R. Chap?n Ralph G. Newman

Sheldon Cohen Georgia L. Northrup

Richard N. Current James W. Patton III

Cullom Davis John Y. Simon Gentry Davis Charles B. Strozier

Olive S. Foster Louise Taper

Donald H. Funk N. R. Thunman

Richard E. Hart John T. Trutter

Earl W. Henderson, Jr. Margaret Van Meter

James T. Hickey Clyde C. Walton

Harold H?lzer Florence Lee Wellons

Robert W. Johannsen

HONORARY MEMBERS

Governor Jim Edgar Mario M. Cuomo Senator Alan J. Dixon Irving Dilliard

Senator Paul Simon Don E. Fehrenbacher

Congressman Richard J. Durbin John Hope Franklin

Congressman Robert Michel John Hannum

Mayor Ossie Langfelder James M. McPherson

Floyd Barringer Stephen B. Oates

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

Charles B. Strozier, professor of history at the City University of New

York, received his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the

University of Chicago. He was also a research candidate at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and is currently co-director of the Center on

Violence and Human Survival at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice,

City University of New York. The skillful blending of psychology and

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history is found in his book Lincoln's Quest for Union: Public and Private

Meanings (1982). His most recent book, coauthored by Robert Jay Lifton and Michael Perlman, is Nuclear Threat and the American Self. He is also

working on The Psychology of Fundamentalism. He has been a consultant,

producer, and scriptwriter for several Lincoln film documentaries, the most recent being "Abraham Lincoln, A Self Portrait."

Douglas L. Wilson, professor of English at Knox College, received his B.A. at Doane College and Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the director of the Seymour Library at Knox College from 1972 to 1991. Until recently, most of Wilson's historical writings have focused on

Thomas Jefferson, especially Jefferson's library. His interest in Lincoln has led to several articles that have appeared in The Atlantic, Indiana Magazine of History, and Civil War History. Wilson's work on transcribing William

Henry Herndon's interviews with Lincoln's associates led him to reexamine several controversial events in the Illinois lawyer's early life. With Rodney

O. Davis, also of Knox College, Wilson plans to publish the first scholarly edition of the Herndon interviews.

Thomas F. Schwartz is curator of the Henry Horner Lincoln Collection at the Illinois State Historical Library and coeditor of the Journal of the

Abraham Lincoln Association. His numerous articles and book reviews have

appeared in Civil War History, Illinois Historical Journal, the Journal of American History, and Presidential Studies Quarterly. The National Endow ment for the Humanities awarded $300,000 toward a joint Lincoln exhibition between the Illinois State Historical Library, the Barry and Louise Taper Lincoln Collection, and the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. It is scheduled to open in October 1993.

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