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On the eve of the one hundred thirty-ninth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, academic circles here yesterday expressed the opinion that the Lincoln papers recently opened for the first time in the Library of Congress are generally complete, despite widespread theories to the contrary.
There is little reason to believe in the tale that Robert Todd Lincoln '64 burned papers which told of treachery in the Cabinet, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '87, associate professor of History, asserted.
F. Lauriston Bullard, local Lincoln authority who last summer spent five days inspecting the documents, said the had found "no evidence whatsoever that young Lincoln had made use of his opportunities to delete letters from the collection."
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