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Herndon's Informants

Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln
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A priceless resource for scholars and anyone curious about Lincoln and his times, Herndon's Informants includes an introduction, scholarly annotations, a registry of the informants, and a detailed topical index.
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xiii
Editorial Note xxv
Short Citations and Abbreviations xxix
Herndon’s Informants: The Texts
1. Letters, Interviews, and Statements Collected by William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, 1865–92 3
2. Informant Testimony Reported in Herndon’s Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889) 707
3. Informant Testimony Reported in William H. Herndon’s Letters to Jesse W. Weik 713
4. Informant Testimony Reported in Jesse W. Weik’s The Real Lincoln (1922) 725
Register of Informants 737
Appendix: Brief Outline of the Joseph Hanks Family, by Paul H. Verduin 779
Index 785
"[Wilson and Davis] have done a service of inestimable value to historians by the complete, accurately transcribed, indexed, and annotated edition of the written accounts of Herndon's interviews with 264 people. . . . It is a monumental achievement of scholarship. That is true not simply because of the editorial skill and effort required to complete it, but mainly because this material is the basis for most of what we know about the first half of Lincoln's life."
--James M. McPherson, New York Review of Books
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