This collection consists of original correspondence, documents, engravings, photographs, and other manuscripts pasted into a special ten volume set of John G. Nicolay and John Hay’s Abraham Lincoln: A History. These volumes contain original correspondence, documents, and photographs from the nineteenth century. Included in this collection are manuscripts by Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Henry Clay, Nicolay and Hay, Winfield Scott, Sam Houston, Horace Greely, Charles Francis Adams, Edwin Stanton, Robert E. Lee, William T. Sherman, Henry Ward Beecher, and many others.