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Title: Shutes Collection of Lincolniana,
Date (inclusive): 1860-1959
Collection number: Mss52
Creator:
Milton Henry Shutes
Extent: 1 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Shutes Collection of Lincolniana, Mss52, Holt-Atherton
Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
A collection of pamphlets, letters, and published documents on President Lincoln's
career, assassination, and legacy. It was collected and compiled by Dr. Milton H. Shutes
(1883-1964), an amateur historian, physician and member of the University of California
Student Health Service staff (1913-1945). Dr. Shutes published Lincoln and California
(1943) and Lincoln and the doctors (1957).
The collection is in two boxes. Box 1 contains Shutes' correspondence, miscellaneous
Lincoln reminiscences, Shutes' book accession records and a bound catalogue of his
library. Box 2 is a collection of various Lincoln -related pamphlets. Dr. Shutes'
collection of books on Lincoln have been separately cataloged and shelved.