William H. Herndon & Emanuel Hertz 
Hidden Lincoln [PDF ebook] 
From the Letters and Papers of William H. Herndon

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Rome for builders of important structures to take their build ing materials from the Colosseum without any interference on the part of the city authorities. Until the Colosseum was finally made safe by law from further destruction, practically every important new building in Rome contained part of it. Similarly} the Lincoln docu ments gathered and prepared by William H. Herndon in the sixties of the last century have been used for seventy years as the foundation stones Of later biographies. Every biographer from that day to this has either consulted Herndon in person or relied on letters or writings left by him.