David C. Mearns papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20000
Subjects: Correspondence; Library of Congress
Description: Correspondence, writings, reports, and orders documenting Mearns's career as an official and historian of the Library of Congress and scholar of Abraham Lincoln.  Includes drafts of Mearn's works, The Story up to Now; The Library of Congress, 1800-1946 (1947) and The Lincoln Papers; The Story of the Collection, with Selections to July 4, 1861 (1948).  Correspondents include David M. Barkley, David Laurence Chambers, Jonathan Daniels, Charles E. Feinberg, Carl Haverlin, Harry Miller Lydenberg, Archibald MacLeish, Earl Schenck Miers, Ralph Geoffrey Newman, Carl Sandburg, Fred Schwengel, Alfred Whital Stern, Walter Trohan, and Justin G. Turner.
Notes: Open to research.

Selected correspondence, writings, reports, special orders, general orders, and other papers also available through the Library of Congress Web site, Freedom's Fortress  The Library of Congress, 1939-1953.

Gift, David C. Mearns, 1962-1978.

Gift, Mrs. Richard Jacoby, 1987.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

Librarian and historian.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid and item index (of autograph series only) available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.