Gideon Welles Papers now available online

[RJNorton]

Thank you to Laurie for sending this information:

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Friends,

I am happy to let you know that the Gideon Welles Papers at the Library of Congress are now available online! They can be accessed in several ways:

· Through an online presentation http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000078 that includes not only the collection items themselves, but also a selected bibliography in “Related Resources,” a timeline of Welles’ life, and featured items displayed in slide carousel of images that suggest the range of materials available in the collection.

· Through the HTML version of the finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003053 click on the “digital content available” hyperlinks in the Contents List section of the guide. A new window will open containing the object record for that material. Click on the document image in the center to open the viewer that provides access to the content.

· Through the PDF version of the finding aid http://findingaids.loc.gov/exist_collect...003053.pdf click on the “digital content available” hyperlinks in the Container List section of the guide. Clicking on the hyperlink will forward that page to the object record for the material, and hitting the “back” arrow will return you to the start of the PDF (not at your last location in the guide).

If you anticipate needing to toggle back and forth between the finding aid and object records, then the HTML version will be easier to use as object records are opened in a new window.

The bulk of the online presentation was scanned from the microfilm edition of the collection, and items without a microfilm surrogate were scanned from the original documents.

Feel free to let me know if you need any assistance in navigating the site, as the new online template looks and operates differently than the retired American Memory platforms with which many people were familiar.

On the Related Resources page https://www.loc.gov/collections/gideon-w...resources/ we included a “Selected Writings By or Associated with Gideon Welles” section that includes hyperlinks to the HathiTrust online versions of many of Welles’s postwar published writings, which I hope researchers will find useful.

I hope you all enjoy a wonderful holiday season, and all the best in the new year!

Michelle A. Krowl
Civil War and Reconstruction Specialist
Manuscript Division

Library of Congress mkrowl@loc.gov

101 Independence Avenue, S.E. (LM-102) Tel: (202) 707-1085

Washington, D.C. 20540-4680 Fax: (202) 707-6336

(Usual office hours: 7am-5:30pm Mon-Thurs; off Fridays)

[Gene C]

An interesting article about the diaries of Gideon Welles from the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Assoc. winter 2020 addition.

"Welles began keeping an almost nightly journal of his experiences in Washington, D.C., during the summer of 1862. Many years later, his son Edgar T. Welles published excerpts from his father’s diary in Atlantic Monthly. In 1911 Edgar released a three-volume edition that he claimed included only minor revisions. “A few strong expressions, purely personal and private, have been omitted,” Edgar wrote in the preface, “but the omission has always been indicated and the reader may have full confidence that the text of the diary has been in no way mutilated or revised.”[1] This assertion was patently untrue"

Here is the entire article
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/262986...w=fulltext

[RobertLC]

Excellent!

Thanks for sharing.

Bob