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Mary journeyed to…“‘Mary’s’ grave”: MTL to Rhoda White, August 30, 1869, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 516.
Mary’s life in Lexington: See chapters 1–3 in Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln.
“a violent little Whig”: Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 41.
“destined to be…future President”: Elizabeth Todd Edward interview, 1865–1866, in HI, p. 443.
proudly rode her new pony: Helm, The True Story of Mary, pp. 1–2.
“I suppose like the rest…called in question?”: MTL to Mercy Ann Levering, December [15?], 1840, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 21.
“the great cause”: “Campaign Circular from Whig Committee,” January [31?], 1840, in CW, 1, p. 202.
“Old hero”: “Communication to the Readers of The Old Soldier,” February 28, 1840, in ibid., p. 204.
death of Mary’s mother; father’s remarriage: See Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 20, 22, 24, 28–30.
turned “desolate”: MTL to Eliza Stuart Steele, May 23, 1871, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 588.
her only real home: MTL to Elizabeth Keckley, October 29, 1867, in ibid., p. 447.
“an emotional…heart would break”: Mrs. Woodrow, quoted in Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 32.
“either in the garret or cellar”: Orville H. Browning, quoted in Nicolay, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, p. 1.
Mary may have precipitated: Abner Y. Ellis to WHH, March 24, 1866, in HI, p. 238; Stephen B. Oates, With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: New American Library Penguin Books, 1977; 1978), p. 60.
Elizabeth warned…“husband & wife”: Elizabeth Todd Edwards interview, 1865–1866, in HI, pp. 443, 444.
Mary had other suitors: MTL to Mercy Ann Levering, July 23 and December [15?], 1840, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 18, 20; Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 84–85.
“an agreeable…my heart is not”: MTL to Mercy Ann Levering, July 23, 1840, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 18.
Far more likely, Lincoln’s own misgivings: Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I, p. 173; Donald, Lincoln, pp. 86–87; Paul M. Angle, Appendix, in Carl Sandburg and Paul M. Angle, Mary Lincoln, Wife and Widow (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1932; 1960), p. 331.
“in the winter…whole heart to me”: Joshua F. Speed to WHH, November 30, 1866, in HI, p. 430.
Lincoln’s change of heart…Matilda Edwards: Douglas L. Wilson, “Abraham Lincoln and ‘That Fatal First of January,’” in Douglas L. Wilson, Lincoln before Washington: New Perspectives on the Illinois Years (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997), pp. 99–125.
“A lovelier girl I never saw”: MTL to Mercy Ann Levering, December [15?], 1840, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 20.
“aberration of mind…violation of his word”: Browning, quoted in Nicolay, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, p. 1.
no evidence that Lincoln ever made his feelings known: Elizabeth Todd and Ninian W. Edwards interviews, September 22, 1865, [1865–1866], July 27, 1887, in HI, pp. 133, 444, 623.
“never bear to leave…the strength of it”: Jane Bell quoted in Wilson, “Abraham Lincoln and ‘That Fatal First of January,’” in Wilson, Lincoln before Washington, p. 110.
“his ability and Capacity…support a wife”: Elizabeth Todd Edwards interview, 1865–1866, in HI, p. 443.
driving up the marriage age: Fidler, “Young Limbs of the Law,” pp. 266–67.
“is a jealous mistress…constant courtship”: Joseph Story, “The Value and Importance of Legal Studies. A Discourse Pronounced at the Inauguration of the Author as Dane Professor of Law in Harvard University, August 25, 1829,” in The Miscellaneous Writings of Joseph Story, ed. William W. Story. Da Capo Press Reprints in American Constitutional and Legal History, gen. ed. Leonard W. Levy (Boston, 1852; New York: Da Capo Press, 1972), p. 523.
Lincoln drafted a letter…lost his nerve: Joshua F. Speed interview, 1865–1866, in HI, pp. 475, 477.
“To tell you the truth…kissed her”: AL, quoted in Herndon and Weik, Herndon’s Life of Lincoln, p. 169.
This second confrontation: Wilson, “Abraham Lincoln and ‘That Fatal First of January,’” in