MARY TODD LINCOLN HISTORY BIOGRAPHY MARY TODD LINCOLN

conclusions that shaped my portrait of the marriage. first

in as much detail as the house years. in springfield the family achieved a delicate

the courtship until he believed he was cured. i discovered letters from mary's brother-in-law that shed on the courtship

in in their washington boarding house in 1848

find store receipts

on the date witnesses saw him wearing the plaster cast

it shaped the last lines of lincolns' first inaugural address

the house that disproves the received opinion she was too unstable to handle such emergencies

after my research

in springfield

in 1839

whenever they could

work has been a careful gathering of details. here again

marriage that recounts the springfield years

balance that was destabilized in wartime washington. the

story that began as a romance turns to tragedy. the lincolns

courtship was stormy; he broke off their engagement in 1840

that lincoln believed he had syphilis

the abru reconciliation and marriage in 1842. this is the first book to connect lincoln's

reading of the niles register

accounts of the time i was able to detail this terrifying incident. mary's physical abuse of her husband has mostly been a

matter of rumor. in she is supposed to have hit her husband

lincoln on his way through baltimore

to washington. the presidential train

as a decoy

poem of a ert laighton's that the lincolns read together

another was the discovery of a letter from a washington physician describing mrs. lincoln's handling of a medical crisis in

there's a lot more that is new

to tell the lincolns' story. --daniel mark epstein