Lincoln Editor

              October - December 2003 Volume 3 Number 4
AWARD-WINNING DONOR PREMIUM NOW AVAILABLE
This year’s donor premium is now available. Donors
of $100 or more to the Papers of Abraham Lincoln
(or the Lincoln Legal Papers) will receive a handsome
poster Abraham Lincoln’s Cabinet. This 24" x 36" poster,
suitable for framing,
includes photographs of
each of the thirteen men
who held one of seven
cabinet positions and the
two men who served as
Lincoln’s vice president.
Organized in a
useful timeline format,
the poster provides the
name, position, dates in
office, birth and death
dates, and state for each
cabinet member. In
addition, the poster provides revealing quotations by
Lincoln about the cabinet member or by the cabinet
member about Lincoln.
The donor premium has already won an award
for its graphic designer, Deana Corbin, of Corbin Design.
Ms. Corbin entered the poster into consideration for the
Master Communicator Awards. Abraham Lincoln’s
Cabinet won an award of
merit in the competition. This
event is the most
distinguished annual awards
program for recognizing and
acknowledging excellence
among professional
communicators in central
Illinois. Local chapters of the
Association for Women in
Communications and the
Public Relations Society of
America sponsored the event.
Congratulations to Ms.
Corbin. Friends of the project who wish to receive a copy
of the poster can send a donation of $100 or more to the
Papers of Abraham Lincoln.
MAIL SURVEY CONTINUES TO YIELD RESULTS
In April 2003, the Papers of Abraham Lincoln mailed
more than 5,200 surveys to libraries, archives,
museums, historical societies, and other repositories
throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico that
might hold Lincoln documents. Thus far, the project has
received more than 3,300 responses, a remarkable 63
percent response rate. Although the majority of responses
indicated that the institution had no Lincoln documents,
226 have thus far responded that they hold documents
written to or by Abraham Lincoln. These repositories
are located in forty-one states across the nation. Project
staff continue to conduct follow-up correspondence with
repositories that have not yet responded but are believed
to have Lincoln documents.
Early in 2004, the Papers of Abraham Lincoln
will issue another mail survey to more than one thousand
manuscript dealers and private collectors who may own
Lincoln documents. If you own a Lincoln document or
know someone who does, please let us know about it by
e-mail or through our website form at
www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org.