Word: lincolniana
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...series of fast-rising buildings for physics, chemistry, den tistry, law. Nearing completion is a $10 million medical school complex. The just-finished library houses 2,000,000 books and such treasures as Einstein's handwritten manuscript of the theory of relativity, a 1,600-volume collection of Lincolniana, and the private library of Serge Koussevitzky...
Died. Herbert Wells Fay, 90, for 27 years custodian of Abraham Lincoln's tomb, known to scholars the world over for his extensive collection of Lincolniana (he had more than a million items); in Springfield...
...more frequent on U.S. bookshelves were new books about American heroes, past & present. There was the usual swelling of Lincolniana. The most compact was Paul Angle's The Lincoln Reader, the most controversial was J. G. Randall's Lincoln, the Liberal Statesman. The other myth amaking, the Roosevelt myth, was being shaped by varied hands, including F.D.R.'s bodyguard. Son Elliott edited a fat volume of his father's letters written between the ages of five and 22, and the President's Vatican representative, Myron C. Taylor, brought out the platitudinous Wartime Correspondence Between President...
Abraham Lincoln distrusted biographies and seldom read them. His son, Robert T, Lincoln, shared his distrust; he included in it the biographers of his father. He seldom gave them help and never encouragement. As a result, when Lincoln scholars recently scrambled to Washington to see the Lincolniana that had been ordered sealed until 21 years after Robert's death they found few surprises and no answers to some of the major questions abou Abraham Lincoln's life...
...mail, manuscript and memoranda. Much of the material has been referred to and quoted in the works of Lincoln's two secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay. Later it became the source material of innumerable books by other authors. But it would be a rich mine of Lincolniana. Few collections have led so closely guarded an existence...