Brief guide to manuscripts collections| William L. Clements Library The University of Michigan Abraham Lincoln Papers |
Letters of Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States.
This collection contains 21 letters written by Lincoln between 1861 and 1865. Also included is a shorthand letter written by James Tanner (1844-1927) to Henry Walch, April 17, 1865, describing Lincoln's death. Tanner, a stenographer, had been called in to record the testimony of witnesses during the night of the assassination, and he recounts this experience to his friend Walch.
Gift of James S. Schoff, Paul G. Strawhecker, Clinton B. Haskell, Alger family, C. M. Davis, Constance B. Stanton, Bernard Knollenberg, and Eunice Wead, 1935-1974.
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