Letter to William Henry Townsend, [manuscript], 1931 March 6.

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Letter to William Henry Townsend, [manuscript], 1931 March 6.

Lockridge writes to Townsend regarding the latter's "skinning" of Edgar Lee Masters's "Lincoln, the man" and commenting on Masters's poem for Ann Rutledge in "Spoon River anthology."

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University of Virginia. Library

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Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950

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Edgar Lee Masters was an American poet, novelist, biographer, and essayist. From the description of Edgar Lee Masters collection of papers, 1919-1949. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 86164224 From the guide to the Edgar Lee Masters collection of papers, 1919-1949, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) Masters was an Illinois poet best known for the Spoon River Anthology. F...

Townsend, William H. (William Henry), 1890-1964

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Lawyer and Lincoln scholar. Author of Abraham Lincoln, Defendant; Lincoln the Litigant; Lincoln and His Wife's Home Town; Lincoln and Liquor; and Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky, among others. Owner of large collection of Lincolniana. From the description of Papers, 1928-1955 (bulk 1928-1934, 1953-1955) (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 25256090 ...

Lockridge, Ross F. (Ross Franklin), 1877-1952

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Indiana historian. From the description of Letter to William Henry Townsend, [manuscript], 1931 March 6. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816278 Indiana native and historian. Lockridge helped organize the Fort Wayne-Allen County (Ind.) Historical Society and achieved a reputation as historian of pioneer Indiana. He was director of the Hoosier Historic Memorial Activities Agency from 1937 to 1950. From the description of Papers, 1938-1948. (Indiana...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...