Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [493]
the untidy office: William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Herndon’s Life of Lincoln, introduction and notes by Paul M. Angle, new introduction by Henry Steele Commager (Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing Co., 1942; New York: Da Capo Press, 1983), pp. 254–55.
The editorial room: Paul Angle, Lincoln in Springfield: A Guide to the Places in Springfield which were Associated with the Life of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, Ill.: Lincoln Centennial Association, 1927), p. 2.
a “complimentary” gesture: Entry of May 19, 1860, in Edward Bates, The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, ed. Howard K. Beale. Vol. IV of the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1930 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1933), p. 130.
the town clock: Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Ill., January 17, 1860.
James Conkling: Clinton L. Conkling, “How Mr. Lincoln Received the News of His First Nomination,” Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society (1909), p. 64.
his singular way of walking…needed oiling: Herndon and Weik, Herndon’s Life of Lincoln, p. 471.
“His legs…a hard day’s work”: William E. Doster, Lincoln and Episodes of the Civil War (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1915), p. 15.
His features…“as belong to a handsome man”: Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 23, 1860.
“so overspread with sadness…capital of Illinois”: Horace White, Abraham Lincoln in 1854: An Address delivered before the Illinois State Historical Society, at its 9th Annual Meeting at Springfield, Illinois, Jan. 30, 1908 (Springfield, Ill.: Illinois State Historical Society, 1908), p. 19.
“this expression…true friendship”: Ibid.
“his winning manner…and gentleness”: NYTrib, November 10, 1860.
“you cease to think…awkward”: Utica Morning Herald, reprinted in NYTrib, July 9, 1860.
“on a borrowed horse…a few clothes”: Joshua F. Speed, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Notes of a Visit to California (Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Co., 1884), p. 21.
population of Springfield: Harry E. Pratt, Lincoln’s Springfield (Springfield, Ill.: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1938), p. 2; Octavia Roberts, Lincoln in Illinois (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918), p. 94.
number of hotels, saloons, etc.: C.S. Williams, comp., Williams’ Springfield Directory City Guide, and Business Mirror, for 1860–61. To Which is Appended a List of Post Offices in the United States and Territories, Corrected up to Date (Springfield, Ill.: Johnson & Bradford, 1860).
“the belle of the town”: “Lincoln and Mary Todd,” [c. 1880s], reel 11, Herndon-Weik Collection of Lincolniana, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress [hereafter Herndon-Weik Collection, DLC].
Mary’s education: Ruth Painter Randall, Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage (Boston: Little, Brown, 1953), pp. 23, 25, 27, 28; Jean H. Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1987), pp. 37–42, 44–45.
“I want to dance…he certainly did”: Katherine Helm, The True Story of Mary, Wife of Lincoln (New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1928), p. 74.
children born, and one buried in Springfield: AL, “Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois,” February 11, 1861, in The Collected Works of Lincoln, Vol. IV, ed. Roy P. Basler (8 vols., New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 190.
“two-story”…no garden: New York Evening Post, reprinted in Albany Evening Journal, May 24, 1860 (quote); Utica Morning Herald, reprinted in NYTrib, July 9, 1860; Frances Todd Wallace interview, [1865–1866], in HI, p. 486.
“The adornments…chastely appropriate”: Utica Morning Herald, reprinted in NYTrib, July 9, 1860.
“the customary little table”: Carl Schurz, The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz. Vol. II: 1852–1863 (New York: McClure Co., 1907), p. 188.
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