Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [505]
able to read and reread his books…“any other one thing”: AL to Isham Reavis, November 5, 1855, in CW, II, p. 327.
“I am Anne Rutledge…: Edgar Lee Masters, “Anne Rutledge,” in Spoon River Anthology (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914; 1916), p. 220.
Lincoln would take…“wooded knoll” to read: W. D. Howells, “Life of Abraham Lincoln,” in Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (New York: W. A. Townsend & Co., and Columbus, Ohio: Follett, Foster & Co., 1860), p. 31.
“it is true…of her now”: Isaac Cogdal interview, 1865–1866, in HI, p. 440.
“Eyes blue large, & Expressive,” auburn hair: Mentor Graham interview, April 2, 1866, in ibid., p. 242.
“She was beloved by Every body”: Ibid., p. 243.
“quick…worthy of Lincoln’s love”: William G. Greene to WHH (interview), May 30, 1865, in ibid., p. 21.
that they would marry…at Jacksonville: Thomas, Lincoln’s New Salem, p. 82; Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I, p. 119.
details of Ann’s death: Rankin, Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 73–74.
“indifferent… woods by him self”: Henry McHenry to WHH, January 8, 1866, in HI, p. 155.
“never seen a man…he did”: Elizabeth Abell to WHH, February 15, 1867, in ibid., p. 557.
“be reconcile[d]…temporarily deranged”: William G. Greene interview, May 30, 1865, in ibid., p. 21.
“reason would desert her throne”: Robert B. Rutledge to WHH, ca. November 1, 1866, in ibid., p. 383.
he ran “off the track”: Isaac Cogdal interview, [1865–1866], in ibid., p. 440.
“I hear the loved survivors tell…”: AL to Andrew Johnston, April 18, 1846, in CW, I, p. 379.
“was not crazy”: Elizabeth Abell to WHH, February 15, 1867, in HI, p. 557.
“Only people…and heal them”: Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, quoted in George E. Vaillant, The Wisdom of the Ego (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1993), p. 358.
“I’m afraid…last of us”: AL to Mrs. Samuel Hill, quoted in Wilson, Honor’s Voice, p. 83.56 of any “faith in life after death”: Bruce, “The Riddle of Death,” in The Lincoln Enigma, pp. 137–39. Lincoln wrote to his stepbrother that were his father to die soon, Thomas Lincoln would have a “joyous [meeting] with many loved ones gone before; and where [the rest] of us, through the help of God, hope ere-long [to join] them.” AL to John D. Johnston, January 12, 1851, in CW, II, p. 97.
his “heart was broken”…eternal companionship: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, October 1, 1845, reel 6, Chase Papers.
“to a higher world…with her mother”: Bates diary, November 15, 1846.
“I ought to be able…in these reflections”: WHS to Charlotte S. Cushman, January 7, 1867, Vol. 13, The Papers of Charlotte S. Cushman, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
his “experiment…never saw a sadder face”: Speed, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, p. 21.
Speed had heard Lincoln speak: Ibid., pp. 17–18; Joshua F. Speed statement, 1865–1866, in HI, p. 477.
“You seem to be…‘I am moved!’”: Speed, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 21–22.
description of Joshua Speed: See ibid., pp. 3–14; Robert L. Kincaid, Joshua Fry Speed: Lincoln’s Most Intimate Friend, reprinted from The Filson Club History Quarterly 17 (Louisville, Ky.: Filson Club, 1943; Harrogate, Tenn.: Department of Lincolniana, Lincoln Memorial University, 1943), pp. 10–11.
Lincoln and Speed shared: For the relationship between Lincoln and Speed, see Speed, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln; Kincaid, Joshua Fry Speed, pp. 13–14.
as his “most intimate friend”: Kincaid, Joshua Fry Speed, pp. 10, 33 n2.
“You know my desire…to do any thing”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, February 13, 1842, in CW, I, p. 269.
Some have suggested: C. A. Tripp, The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Lewis Gannett (New York: Free Press, 2005), pp. 126–29.
sharing a bed: Rotundo, American Manhood, pp. 84–85; Strozier, Lincoln’s Quest for Union, p. 43.
The room above Speed’s store: Michael Burlingame, “A Respectful Dissent,” Afterword I, in Tripp, The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, p. 228.
attorneys of the Eighth Circuit…for a companion: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln,