Abraham Lincoln: A Biography

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .-.I WI S H to extend my sincere thanks to Roy P. Basler, Mrs. Harry E. Pratt, Lloyd Dunlap, and George W. Bunn, Jr., of the Abraham Lincoln Association, to Allan Nevins, of Columbia University, and to Harry E. Pratt, Illinois State Historian, for reading my entire manuscript, offering valuable suggestions and criticism, and calling my attention to letters and documents. l\1:rs. Pratt also checked my Lincoln quotations. Paul M. Angle, Director of the Chicago Historical Society, likewise suggested improvements in those parts of the manuscript '\\'hich time enabled me to have him read. Ralph Newman pointed out the whereabouts of material. Alfred W. Stern and Foreman lVI. Lebold, of Chicago, loaned me manuscripts from their collections. Earl Schenck Miers offered constant counsel and encouragement. Margaret Flint, James N. Adams, and S. A. Wetherbee, of the Illinois State Historical Library, rendered gracious assistance. David C. Mearns and Percy Powell, of the Library of Congress, and Bert Sheldon, of Washington, D.C., were helpful and hospitable . The poem "Ann Rutledge" is quoted with the permission of Mrs. Ellen C. Masters, and General Stephen D. Ramseur's letters to his wife are quoted by the permission of David Schenck. Hirst Dillon Milhollen and Milton Kaplan, of the Library of Congress, Josephine Cobb, of the National Archives, H. Maxson Holloway, of the Chicago Historical Society, and Mrs. Mary XXll Acknowledgments Handy Evans and Mrs. Alice Handy Cox, of the L. C. Handy Studios, Washington, D.C., aided in my search for illustrations. My wife gave her usual unfailing encouragement all the while I was at work. The helpfulness of Alfred A. Knopf, Roger Shugg, Harold Strauss, and others of the house of Knopf far exceeded their obligations to an author. BENJAMIN P. THOMAS Springfield, Illinoia ABRAHAM LINCOLN -.- ...