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1. United States. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission Office of the Research Director records, 1957-1960

   33,500 items. 38 containers. 12 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Correspondence, research notes, writings, bibliographies, reports, minutes, and other records relating primarily to the commission’s publication of Lincoln Day by Day compiled by William E. Baringer and C. Percy Powell under the editorship of Earl Schenck Miers. Also includes indexes relating to the commission’s bibliography project.

2. David C. Mearns papers, 1830-1979

   20,000 items. 161 containers plus 5 oversize. 65 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Librarian and historian. Correspondence, writings, reports, and orders documenting Mearns's positions as an official and historian of the Library of Congress and scholar of Abraham Lincoln.