Anyone live near Springfield, Illinois? Help needed

[historybuff22]

Hello,

HistoryReference.org is a nonprofit organization. I am currently getting ready to publish a deluxe reference book of an Atlas of Known April 15, 1865 New York Herald Reprints. So far I have documented 35 different times this edition was reprinted. 95% of these were produced over one-hundred years ago so they look old.

In my personal archive I have 32 of these variants and am looking for the three I am missing as well as any not already recorded. I have made arrangements with James Cornelius, curator of the Lincoln collection, at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois for someone to come in and examine the reprints they have.

I am in need of someone living near Springfield, Illinois and has a laptop with WiFi to go to the ALPL and look through their reprints. Your laptop will be needed to connect to my Online Atlas of Known April 15, 1865 New York Herald Reprints to compare the reprints in their library to see if it has any variants I do not have. URL: http://www.historyreference.org/newspape...ssination/

Thanks in advance for your kind assistance.

Rick Brown
HistoryReference.org
A Nonprofit Organization

"Not everything you read on the Internet is true." Abraham Lincoln

[LincolnMan]

Sounds exciting Rick. Hope someone can assist!

[maharba]

Abraham Lincoln 'overstayed his welcome' in Springfield and Illinois. While others had moved on to higher elective or appointive office, Lincoln appeared to enjoy his several more years 'on the circuit'. Some say cause he just wanted to get away from his bad-tempered wife, but I think he enjoyed what he was doing and he planned and continued to hone his profession. From earliest years, it appears Lincoln was pleased with his stump speeches to first other children then nominally literate crowds, then rural jurors, and before judges. It seems that Lincoln was constantly perfecting and enjoying himself, as he would induct bits of erudition here and there --some of it legalistic, some from papers and literature, others from verbal exchanges. He would turn it over in his mind, rework it, and plan on a good setting where he would revisit a reworked and synthesized phrase or speech before: a judge or jury or a small audience of farmers. I think Abraham Lincoln particularly enjoyed being able to sway a set of jurors, when the evidence was against his client; by appealing to them in homilies which put his client in a favorable comparison. As he approached a national stage, he could see that it was even easier to do.