Where Is It?

[Rob Wick]

Laurie,
It was written in 1927. I have all of Barton's papers with Bobbs-Merrill (his main publisher) but they are in a container somewhere in my office. I'll try to go through them later in the day (I have an 11th birthday party to attend for my great niece).

Barton's books on Lincoln started appearing in 1920 when The Soul of Abraham Lincoln came out, so it's possible that he could have had the photo taken anytime between the time he started working on that to 1927. Barton was interested in Lincoln long before his books appeared (I have a letter that a friend of Barton's wrote to Ida Tarbell in the 1890s asking her about reading some of Barton's stuff and Tarbell never followed up on it). I wonder if it's possible that Hall had the photo in his collection and Barton knew about it? Given that Oak Park was Barton's home base and he likely would have known Hall, such is a possibility.

Best
Rob