The Papers of Abraham Lincoln

The Papers of Abraham Lincoln is a long-term project dedicated to identifying, imaging, and publishing all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln during his lifetime (1809-1865).  After locating the documents, project staff will prepare a high-resolution color digital image of each page.  Working from these electronic surrogates, project editors will create authoritative transcriptions of the documents, markup their structural features according to the guidelines developed by the Model Editions Partnership and the Text Encoding Initiative, and provide explanatory annotations.  The project will then publish the text files, linked to the graphic images of the originals, on a publicly accessible website. 

http://www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org/