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Acknowledgments Numerous people assisted me in locating and compiling the documents in this book, and I owe them all a debt of thanks. Kara Vetter, registrar, Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Indiana; Cindy Van Horn, curator, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana; James Cornelius, Lincoln Collection curator, and Glenna Schroeder-Lein, manuscripts librarian, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library , Springfield, Illinois; Holly Snyder, North American history librarian, John Hay Library,Brown University,Providence,Rhode Island; Daniel Meyer,associate director, Special Collections and Research Center, University of Chicago Library; Lynn Eaton, research services librarian, Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; John L. Popolis Jr., museum technician, Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, Illinois; Michelle Ganz,archivist and special collections librarian,Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, Harrogate, Tennessee; and Deborah Emerson, my stepmother and executive director, Central New York Library Resources Council. Thearticles,“MaryToddLincoln:Patientat Bellevue Place,Batavia,”by Rodney A.Ross,and “New Mary Lincoln Letter Found,”by Jason Emerson,were published previously by the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, and I thank the society for permission to republish selections from those works. Thanks also to my good friend and fellow Lincoln enthusiast Jonda Anderson, who read over the manuscript and offered excellent feedback. Emerson_Text.indd 7 5/18/12 3:37 PM Emerson_Text.indd 8 5/18/12 3:37 PM ...

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