Herndon`s Informants – Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincol…

Herndon's InformantsLetters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln\nAuthor(s): Douglas L Wilson, Rodney O. Davis, Terry Wilson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252023286, 978-0252023286\nSynopsis\nWinner of the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award\n\n More than 600 letters and interviews providing information about Abraham Lincoln's prepolitical and prelegal careers are included in this volume, a priceless collection never before available in one place. Women to whom Lincoln proposed marriage, political allies and adversaries, judges and fellow attorneys, longtime comrades, erstwhile friends--all speak out here in words first gathered by William H. Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, between 1865 and 1890. Historian David Herbert Donald has called Herndon's materials \""the basic source for Abraham Lincoln's early years.\""\n\nSome of those Herndon questioned were illiterate; others cou.