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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
From home to home: autumn wanderings in the Northwest, in the years 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Personal and professional papers Ward Hill Lamon. The collection contains source materials for biography of Lincoln, including three volumes of materials purchased from William Henry Hendon in 1869 and the correspondence related to the purchase; unpublished typescript of Lamon's history of the Lincoln administration, and other papers relating to his historical work, including items that concern the controversy over the Life of Abraham Lincoln. Also included are papers that cover Lamon's own life and career: numerous letters addressed to Lamon seeking Lincoln's patronage; papers relating to the his attempt to organize a brigade of Unionist Virginians in 1861, the office of the U.S. Marshal of the District of Columbia (1861-1865); a political attack on Lamon in 1862 by abolitionist senators over the continued enforcement of the fugitive slave law; Lamon family and finances (including wartime speculation and dealings in Colorado mining properties); Illinois political news, etc.
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Manuscripts
This collection consists of the correspondence of clergyman, scholar, insurance counsel and prison reformer, Charlton T. Lewis (1834-1904), of West Chester, Pennsylvania, New York City, NY, and Morristown, New Jersey. Also includes correspondence from the family of his wife, Nancy Dunlap McKeen of Brunswick, Maine, dated 1797-1915.
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