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Scholars Reunite Scraps of an Abraham Lincoln Notebook

Via Charlotte Bruce Harvey 78, Brown Alumni Magazine: Using digital images, scholars have discovered that fragments of paper at libraries at Brown and the University of Chicago are two halves of a single page on which the teenaged Abraham Lincoln copied out math problems. Its one of the earliest examples of Lincolns thought and writing. Scholars Reunite Scraps of an Abraham Lincoln Notebook

Lincolniana at Brown featured by Scout Report

From The Scout Report, April 23, 2010, Volume 16, Number 16: The Lincoln Collection at Brown University has a rather interesting story, and it all started back in the fall of 1855. John Milton Hay arrived in September of that year to start his education at Brown, and he would go on to a distinguished Lincolniana at Brown featured by Scout Report

“April is the Cruelest Month…”

What else is there to say about a month that hosts both Tax Day and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln? Drop by the lobby of the John Hay Library to find out. The exhibit features Lincolniana from the Hay Library’s McLellan Lincoln Collection, and constitutes a final farewell to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial. “April is “April is the Cruelest Month…”