Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [525]
Ethan Allen/George Washington story: Abner Y. Ellis statement, January 23, 1866, in HI, p. 174.
“who had a great…‘than that dress’”: John Usher interview with George Alfred Townsend, December 25, 1878, scrapbook, Papers of George Alfred Townsend, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
“is the nature…is cradled”: Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller,” in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968; New York: Schocken Books, 1969), p. 91.
“Would we do…thought and experience”: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 66.
“It makes human nature…is possible”: AL on George Washington, quoted in ibid., p. 67.
When the court closed…throughout the weekend: Jesse W. Weik, The Real Lincoln: A Portrait (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1923), p. 90.
“wondered at it…pleasant, inviting homes”: David Davis, quoted in Herndon and Weik, Herndon’s Life of Lincoln, p. 249.
“as happy as…no other place”: David Davis interview, September 20, 1866, in HI, p. 349.
“his home was Hell…Heaven”: WHH, A Letter from William H. Herndon to Isaac N. Arnold, n.p. 152 “Lincoln speaks very…children”: David Davis to Sarah Davis, November 3, 1851, quoted in King, Lincoln’s Manager, p. 85.
Davis described a letter…Tad was born: David Davis to Sarah Davis, May 17, 1852, and September 18, 1853, Davis Papers, ALPLM; King, Lincoln’s Manager, pp. 74, 84.
remedy the “want of education”: Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered, p. 71.
“nearly mastered…Euclid”: AL, “Scripps autobiography,” in CW, IV, p. 62.
“he read hard works…read generally”: John T. Stuart interview, December 20, 1866, in HI, p. 519.
“so deeply absorbed…point of exhaustion”: WHH, in Weik, The Real Lincoln, p. 240.
“Life was to him…came before him”: Swett, “Lincoln’s Story of His Own Life,” in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice, p. 79.
“one of the greatest hardships”: Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 79.
circuit life was invaluable: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 94; White, Abraham Lincoln in 1854, p. 20; Strozier, Lincoln’s Quest for Union, p. 144.
“If I muzzle not…the Whig party”: WHS to FAS, July 21, 1850, in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 148.
Seward’s eulogies to Clay and Webster: WHS, “Henry Clay” and “Daniel Webster,” in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. III, pp. 104–16.
“They cannot see…of wrath!”: WHS to unidentified recipient [FAS?], 1852, in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 194.
“I do not wish you…true to liberty”: FAS to WHS, June 13, [1852], reel 114, Seward Papers.
“worldly wisdom…current if necessary”: FAS to WHS, July 20, 1856, reel 114, Seward Papers.
“This fearless defense…righteous cause”: FAS to CS, September 18, 1852, reel 9, The Papers of Charles Sumner, Chadwyck-Healey microfilm edition [hereafter Sumner Papers].
“a Waterloo defeat”: Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 196.
she was tempted…“more harm than good”: FAS to LW, January 15, 1854, reel 119, Seward Papers.
“Would that I were…obligation and duty”: WHS to FAS, May 16, 1855, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 251.
everywhere Seward went…join him: Johnson, “I Could Not be Well or Happy at Home,” URLB (1978), p. 48.
Frances’s health problems: FAS to LW, January 2, February 7, 1832; August 31, 1833, reel 118, Seward Papers; FAS, “Diary of Trip through Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland, 1835,” reel 197, and FAS, MSS Fragment on Illness, 1865, Seward Papers; entries for December 28, 1858, and March 16, 1859, FS diary, reel 198, Seward Papers; Johnson, “Sensitivity and Civil War,” pp. 23–27.
her “sanctuary”: WHS to FAS, February 12, 1837, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 325.
Doctors could not pinpoint: Johnson, “I Could Not be Well or Happy at Home,” URLB (1978), pp. 46–47.
the “various…purpose in their life”: FAS, “Womans Mission, Westminster, 1850,” reel 197, Seward Papers.
“There you are…pleasures, except at intervals”: WHS to [FAS], June 13, 1847, in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 51.
The Sewards’ relationship