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University of Chicago Library

Guide to the Adaline Lincoln Papers 1923

© 2002 University of Chicago Library

Descriptive Summary

Title:

Lincoln, Adaline. Papers

Dates:

1923

Size:

0.1 linear ft. (1 folder)

Repository:

Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center
University of Chicago Library
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.

Abstract:

Adaline Lincoln, early student. The Adaline Lincoln Papers consist of a paper by Lincoln for a Latin seminar taught by Elmer Truesdell Merrill from 1922 to 1923. The paper is titled "Pomponius Laetus' Marginal Readings in His Copy of the Treviso (1483) Edition of Pliny's 'Letters'".

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Citation

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Adaline Lincoln. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Libary

Biographical Note

Lena Adaline Lincoln was born on July 15, 1899 in Van Buren, Arkansas.

Adaline Lincoln, a second cousin once removed of Abraham Lincoln, graduated from high school at the age of thirteen, and from the University of Arkansas in 1916. In the fall of that year Lincoln entered the University of Chicago. She received an A.M. in Latin in the summer of 1917 with a thesis titled "Development of Allegorical Interpretation in the Ecologues of Virgil." In 1923 Lincoln passed her final examination in Romance Languages as a minor for a Ph.D but received no further degrees.

In 1923, Adaline Lincoln married Jay Laurence Lush (1896-1982), a professor of animal husbandry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

She taught French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish to private pupils and conducted a number of trips to Europe. She was named Iowa Mother of the Year in 1963. Dr. and Mrs. Lush had a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Hausrath, a son, David Alan, and seven grandchildren.

Scope Note

The Adaline Lincoln Papers consist of a paper by Lincoln for a Latin seminar taught by Elmer Truesdell Merrill from 1922 to 1923. The paper is titled "Pomponius Laetus' Marginal Readings in His Copy of the Treviso (1483) Edition of Pliny's 'Letters'".

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Folder 1

"Pomponius Laetus' Marginal Readings in His Copy of the Treviso (1483) Edition of Pliny's 'Letters', " paper for Latin 99, 100, 101, seminar on "Letters" of Pliny, taught by Elmer Truesdell Merrill,

1922-1923