M1506-A collection of Lincoln literature consisting of memoirs, eulogies, memorial addresses, poems, and sermons ; campaign documents, etc., including many extremely scarce items and a few rare confederate publications : to be sold at auction Monday, May 21, 1906 beginning at 3 o'clock p.m.

Item — Box: Monaghan Boxes, item: E457.M47 1906

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James Jay Monaghan was a well known collector of Lincolniana in the early to mid-twentieth century. Born in 1891, Monaghan was also a scholar of Abraham Lincoln. Monaghan published a bioliography of works by and about Abraham Lincoln. Many of those materials are accessible in the Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincoliana. This finding aid includes a list of those artifacts, pamphlets and other materials. This collection is organized by Monaghan number.