NOTES
275
27. Plain Dealer, January 26,
1861.
28. Leader, January 21, 1861.
29. Annals of Cleveland, XLIV,
3391 (Leader, January 24, 1861).
30. Plain Dealer, January 22,
1861.
31. Annals of Cleveland, XLIV,
3389 (Leader, January 22, 1861).
32. Sentinel, January 30, 1861.
33. Annals of Cleveland, XLIV,
3392 (Leader, January 24, 1861).
34. Sentinel, January 30, 1861.
35. Malvin, Autobiography, 38-39.
36. Annals of Cleveland, XLIV,
3394 (Leader, January 25, 1861).
37. Herald, January 24, 1861.
38. Annals of Cleveland, XLIV,
3393 (Leader, January 24, 1861).
39. Sentinel, January 30, 1861.
40. Ibid.
41. Annals of Cleveland, XLIV,
3399 (Leader, February 1, 1861).
42. The Oberlin Evangelist, February
13, 1861, pp. 30-31.
43. The Liberator, March 8, 1861.
44. This was a highly unlikely
conjecture, inasmuch as Lucy's escape had occurred
before Lincoln's election and South
Carolina's secession had brought on the crisis.
45. The Liberator, March 8, 1861.
46. Ibid., March 15, 1861.
47. The Bagby case elicited only
perfunctory mention, from three lines to a paragraph,
in the telegraphic reports columns of
two principal eastern papers. See the New York
Times, January 21, 24, 1861; and New York Tribune, January
22, 24, 1861.
48. Sentinel, June 3, 1861.
49. Plain Dealer, May 4, 1861.
50. Malvin, Autobiography, 38-39.
YOUNG HOWELLS
DRAFTS A "LIFE" FOR LINCOLN
1.
David C. Mearns (ed.), The Lincoln Papers, the Story of a Collection, with
Selections to July 4, 1861 (Garden City, 1948), I, 241-242. For the background
circum-
stances of Howells' and other Lincoln
campaign biographies of 1860, see also Roy P.
Basler and Lloyd A. Dunlap, ed.,
introduction and notes to Life of Abraham Lincoln by
John Locke Scripps (Bloomington, 1961);
Benjamin P. Thomas, "A Unique Biography
of Lincoln," Bulletin of the
Abraham Lincoln Association, No. 35 (June 1934), 3-8, and
his preface to the facsimile [1860] Life
of Abraham Lincoln by W. D. Howells (Bloom-
ington, 1960); and particularly Ernest
J. Wessen, "Campaign Lives of Abraham Lincoln,"
Papers of Illinois History and
Transactions for the Year 1937 (Springfield,
1938), 188-220.
2. See the six speeches included in the
complete edition of the Life, noted below in
footnote 6.
3. Howells' basic account of the Lincoln
biography and of his relationships with Follett
and Foster appears in Years of My
Youth (New York, 1916), Chapter IV, 178-239.
4. Political Debates between Hon.
Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas,
In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858,
in Illinois . . . (Columbus, 1860).
For reports of
mounting sales, see current Follett and
Foster advertising in the Ohio State Journal
(Columbus).
5. The Robert Todd Lincoln Collection
of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865),
Library of Congress microfilm, 1947. For
the Howard notes, see Series 1: 1860
May 26-July 18; Mounting Numbers
2906-3331, Reel 7. A transcription of these notes,
printed by Mearns in The Lincoln
Papers, 149-159, should be checked against the
original for variant readings.
6. The Life and Public Services of
Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Hon.
Hannibal Hamlin of Maine (Boston, 1860). Published about June 7. Wessen,
"Campaign
Lives of Abraham Lincoln," 188-220.
7. Howells, Years of My Youth, 159-160.
8. Ibid., 153-160, 172-173,
220-222.
9. Ibid., 193-194.
10. Ibid., 202-203.
11. For Howells' youthful background,
including the literary forces that had helped
shape his mind and art, see especially A
Boy's Town (1890), My Year in a Log Cabin
(1893), My Literary Passions (1895),
and Chapters I-III of Years of My Youth (1916).