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“ability to keep…gem of [his] character”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, July 4, 1842, in CW, I, p. 289.
“not single spies…battalions”: William Shakespeare, “Hamlet,” act 4, scene 5, William Shakespeare Tragedies, Volume 1. Everyman’s Library (New York and Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), p. 105.
details of Speed leaving Springfield: Kincaid, Joshua Fry Speed, p. 15.
Speed’s departure would bring: James Conkling to Mercy Ann Levering, January 24, 1841, and Levering to Conkling, February 7, 1841, quoted in Wilson, “Abraham Lincoln and ‘That Fatal First of January,’” in Wilson, Lincoln before Washington, p. 117; Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, p. 100.
“I shall be verry…pained by the loss”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, February 25, 1842, in CW, I, p. 281.
worried that he was suicidal: James H. Matheny interview, May 3, 1866, in HI, p. 251; Speed, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, p. 39.
“Lincoln went Crazy…it was terrible”: Joshua F. Speed interview, [1865–1866], in HI, p. 474.
“delirious to the extent…he was doing”: Browning, quoted in Nicolay, An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln, p. 2.
“Poor L!…truly deplorable”: James Conkling to Mercy Ann Levering, January 24, 1841, quoted in Wilson, “Abraham Lincoln and ‘That Fatal First of January,’” in Wilson, Lincoln Before Washington, p. 117.
was called hypochondriasis: See J. S. Forsyth, The New London Medical and Surgical Dictionary (London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1826), p. 379; Robley Dunglison, M.D., A New Dictionary of Medical Science and Literature, Containing a Concise Account of the Various Subjects and Terms; with the Synonymes in Different Languages; and Formulae for Various Officinal and Empirical Preparations, Vol. I (Boston: Charles Bowen, 1833), p. 508; German E. Berrios, “Hypochondriasis: History of the Concept,” in Vladan Starcevic and Don R. Lipsitt, eds., Hypochondriasis: Modern Perspectives on an Ancient Malady (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 3–20.
“I have, within…to my existence”: AL to John T. Stuart, January 20, 1841, in CW, I, p. 228. Dr. Henry did not receive the postmastership of Springfield.
“I am now the most…it appears to me: AL to John T. Stuart, January 23, 1841, in ibid., p. 229.
Hoping medical treatment…“without a personal interview”: Joshua F. Speed to WHH, November 30, 1866, in HI, p. 431.
the nadir of Lincoln’s depression…most certainly die: Speed, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, p. 39.
“done nothing…desired to live for”: Joshua F. Speed to WHH, February 7, 1866, in HI, p. 197.
“ideas of a person’s…perceive him”: William G. Thalmann, The Odyssey: An Epic of Return. Twayne’s Masterwork Studies, No. 100 (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992), p. 39.
“To see memory…thought with others”: Bruce, “The Riddle of Death,” in The Lincoln Enigma, p. 141.
“thou midway world…and paradise”: AL to Andrew Johnston, April 18, 1846, in CW, I, p. 378.
critical to “avoid being idle”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, February 13, 1842, in ibid., p. 269.
“business and conversation…bitterness of death”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, [January 3?, 1842], in ibid., p. 265.
he delivered an eloquent address…“than a gallon of gall”: AL, “Temperance Address. An Address, Delivered before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society,” February 22, 1842, in ibid., p. 273.
“An outstanding…future growth”: George E. Vaillant, Adaptation to Life (Boston: Little, Brown, 1977), p. 27.
“quite clear of the hypo…in the fall”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, February 3, 1842, in CW, I, p. 268.
“much alone of late…countenances me”: MTL to Mercy Ann Levering, June 1841, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 25, 27.
mutual friends conspired: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 93.
“worse sort…can realize”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, February 25, 1842, in CW, I, p. 280. For correspondence between Lincoln and Speed discussing Speed’s doubts during courtship of Fanny Henning, see AL to Speed, [January 3?], February 3, and February 13, 1842, in ibid., pp. 265–70.
“sailed through clear”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, July 4, 1842, in ibid.,