. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln. before; but nevertheless we aredelighted with what did come to the past summer, Mr. BrayHammond, the financial historian andwinner of the Pulitzer Prize for his-tory in 1958, stopped by our officesto examine the papers of George , Assistant Secretary ofthe Treasury in the Lincoln Adminis-tration. The Harrington papers, anenormous mass of information onmonetary matters, had been carefullypreserved, but apparently untouchedsince they arrived as a gift some 40years ago. Their exitremely special-ized character, possibly, did not sug-
. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln. before; but nevertheless we aredelighted with what did come to the past summer, Mr. BrayHammond, the financial historian andwinner of the Pulitzer Prize for his-tory in 1958, stopped by our officesto examine the papers of George , Assistant Secretary ofthe Treasury in the Lincoln Adminis-tration. The Harrington papers, anenormous mass of information onmonetary matters, had been carefullypreserved, but apparently untouchedsince they arrived as a gift some 40years ago. Their exitremely special-ized character, possibly, did not sug-gest that it was worth the effort tocatalogue and process them in theusual manner. monies to commence at 12, and theprocession to move at 2 Theremains to be escorted to the Capitol,and there deposited in the Rotunda,to remain under a suitable guard, tobe provided by the proper militaryauthorities. The delegation especially appoint-ed from Illinois to receive the re-mains and escort them thither, to becalled the Body Guard, to have. MR. HAMMONDS visit, however,prompted us to take up the long-de-layed task, and while it did developthat practically all of the collectionwould concern only those who werestruggling with problems of govern-mental monetary issues, about 100pieces turned ouit to be of major na-tional interest. George R. Harrington, we discov-ered, was the man appointed to ar-range the State Funeral for Presi-dent Lincoln, and his notes, com-ments and plans were quieftly repos-ing among the mountain of facts andfigures relating to his career in fi-nance. Apparently the assignment to co-ordinate the mourners was not lookedupon by Harrington as any particularhonor, but was accepted as one ofthose temporary annoyances thatcomes along. Only two days afterthe assassination he wrote to WilliamPitt Fessenden (the former Senatorfrom Maine who had just retired asSecretary of the Treasury): I amsorry to say the whole charge of thefuneral fixed for Wednesday has beenput upon m
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