Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [515]
“‘Are you now’…impatient to know”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, October 5, 1842, in ibid., p. 303.
and was, in fact, very happy: AL to Joshua F. Speed, March 27, 1842, in ibid., p. 282.
description of the wedding: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 97–98; Helm, The True Story of Mary, pp. 93–95.
“Nothing new here…of profound wonder”: AL to Samuel D. Marshall, November 11, 1842, in CW, I, p. 305.
“Full many a flower”: Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” in The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 3rd edn., ed. Alexander W. Allison, et al. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1983), pp. 249–50.
“His melancholy…as he walked”: Herndon, “Analysis of the Character,” ALQ (1941), p. 359.
“No element…profound melancholy”: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 146.
“This melancholy…with his brains”: Henry C. Whitney to WHH, June 23, 1887, in HI, p. 616.
“his face was…ever looked upon”: Joseph Wilson Fifer, quoted in Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln (Elmira, N.Y.: Primavera Press, 1945), p. 155.
“slightly wrinkled…the wrinkles there”: William Calkins, “The First of the Lincoln and Douglas Debates,” quoted in ibid., pp. 169–70.
melancholy does not have: See Jerome Kagan, Galen’s Prophecy: Temperament in Human Nature, with the collaboration of Nancy Snidman, Doreen Arcus, and J. Steven Reznick (New York: Basic Books, 1994), pp. 7–8.
“a tendency to…not a fault”: AL to Mary Speed, September 27, 1841, in CW, I, p. 261.
“Melancholy…a sense of humor”: Thomas Pynchon, introduction to The Teachings of Don B.: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme, ed. Kim Herzinger (New York: Turtle Bay Books, Random House, 1992), p. xviii.
“When he first came…boiled over”: James H. Matheny interview, November 1866, in HI, p. 432.
“he emerged…he lived, again”: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 147.
“necessary to his…relaxation in anecdotes”: Joshua F. Speed to WHH, December 6, 1866, in HI, p. 499.
He laughed, he explained: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 148.
“joyous, universal evergreen of life”: AL, quoted in Nicolay, Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln, p. 16.
“to whistle off sadness”: David Davis interview, September 20, 1866, in HI, pp. 348, 350.
“Humor, like hope…to be borne”: George E. Vaillant, The Wisdom of the Ego, p. 73.
“Humor can be marvelously…corrosive”: Unnamed source, quoted in ibid., p. 73.
to rescue a pig…“his own mind”: AL, quoted in Nicolay, Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln, p. 81.
tortured turtles…“it was wrong”: Nathaniel Grigsby interview, September 12, 1865, in HI, p. 112.
He refused to hunt animals: Miller, Lincoln’s Virtues, pp. 26–27.
“the never-absent idea”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, March 27, 1842, in CW, I, p. 282.
“By the imagination…what he feels”: Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (London: A. Millar, 1759; facsimile, New York: Garland Publishing, 1971), pp. 2–3.
“With his wealth…that way themselves”: Nicolay, Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 213, 77, 78.
marriage was tumultuous…was harder for Mary: With Malice Toward None, pp. 69–70; Strozier, Lincoln’s Quest for Union, p. 119; Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 105–10.
Lincoln helped with the marketing and the dishes: Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, p. 279.
Julia Bates’s early marriage: Darby, “Mrs. Julia Bates” in Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, n.p.; EB to Frederick Bates, June 15 and July 19, 1818, quoted in ibid.
Frances Seward spared household chores: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 62, 382, 466; Patricia C. Johnson, “‘I Could Not be Well or Happy at Home…When Called to the Councils of My Country’: Politics and the Seward Family,” University of Rochester Library Bulletin 31 [hereafter URLB] (Autumn 1978), pp. 42, 47, 49.
Lincolns detached from respective families: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 105–07, 111–12.
When Lincoln was away: Ibid., pp. 108–09.
Frances’s family surrounded her: Johnson, “I Could Not be Well or Happy at Home,” URLB, p. 42.
Julia Bates’s family in St. Louis: Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia