Provenance: | Laid in letter dated October 6, 1958 from R. S. Randall, Assistant Director of Libraries for Technical Services at Southern Illinois University to R. N. Elliott, Gift and Exchange Department at University of Chicago Library: "Dear Mr. Elliott: As librarians, we are not very proud of this as a catalog. Confidentially, we are not very proud of the collection either... The catalog was prepared by a non-librarian curator. The collection was Mr. Tilton's personal library, so it contains many non-Lincoln items..."
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