Herndon-Weik collection of Lincolniana, circa 1824-1933

Collection Summary

Title	Herndon-Weik collection of Lincolniana, circa 1824-1933
Span Dates	circa 1824-1933
ID No.	MSS25791
Collector	Herndon, William Henry, 1818-1891
Creator	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Collector	Weik, Jesse William, 1857-1930
Extent	4,600 items
Extent	36 containers
Extent	10 linear feet
Extent	15 microfilm reels
Language	Collection material in English
Location	Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001002
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm74025791
Summary	Collection composed of the papers of Abraham Lincoln, United States president, United States representative from Illinois, and lawyer; William Henry Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, collector, and biographer from Springfield, Illinois; and Jesse William Weik, lawyer of Greencastle, Indiana, and coauthor of Herndon's Lincoln. Includes records (1933) of the Weik Manuscript Corporation and miscellaneous material collected chiefly by Herndon and Weik for use in writing Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889).
Online Content	The Herndon-Weik Collection of Lincolniana is available on the Library of Congress Web site at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000093. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the online edition.