Emanuel Hertz manuscripts on Abraham Lincoln

1931-1934

The Emanuel Hertz manuscripts on Abraham Lincoln include a typescript of his book, Abraham Lincoln, A New Portrait (Horace Liveright: New York, 1931), as well as photostat copies of original Lincoln letters used in preparation of the book. Chapters 28, 30-33, 35-37, and 39-42 of vol. 1 are missing The manuscripts also include a bound volume entitled "Essays on Lincoln." This contains a typewritten copy of "Herndon, Lincoln's Boswell. The vast Herndon-Weik Collection of original Lincoln material, indispensible for a definitive life of the Emancipator" (1934) with manuscript emendations, as well as a typescript of "Lincoln, the Harmonizer" (February 1933) and a typescript of "The Passing of Abraham Lincoln," an address delivered by Hertz at the Manhattan-Washington Lodge, 19, B'nai B'rith, April 13, 1933