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switched his allegiance…to Horace Greeley: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 447–48.
physical condition weakened…depression: Ibid., pp. 444, 448–49.
“too much of an invalid…I were dead”: SPC to Richard C. Parsons, May 5, 1873, Chase Papers, Vol. V, p. 370.
Kate saw her marriage…died in poverty: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, pp. 297–98, 306–10, 320, 326–27, 348.
Frank Blair…intemperate denunciations: Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. I, ed. Allen Johnson (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927; 1964), pp. 333–34.
died from a fall: NYT, July 10, 1875.
“his physical vigor…of disposition”: Sun, Baltimore, Md., October 19, 1876.
Montgomery served…biography of Andrew Jackson: Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. I (1964 edn.), p. 340.
wrote a series…“herculean tasks”: Niven, Gideon Welles, pp. 576–77 (quote p. 576).
perceptive diary…streptococcus infection: Ibid., pp. 578, 580.
remained friends…abridged version: Nicolay, Lincoln’s Secretary, pp. 301, 342.
Shortly before he died…“overpowering melancholy”: William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1929), pp. 405, 407.
“each morning…as an impossibility”: MTL to EBL, August 25, 1865, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 268.
“precious Tad…gladly welcome death”: MTL to Alexander Williamson, [May 26, 1867], in ibid., p. 422.
Tad journeyed…“beyond his years”: NYTrib, July 17, 1871.
“compression of the heart”: Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 585.
“The modest and cordial…fantastic enterprises”: NYTrib, July 17, 1871.
“It is very hard…to the contrary”: Robert Todd Lincoln to Mary Harlan, quoted in Helm, The True Story of Mary, p. 267.
erratic behavior…permanently estranged: Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 430–34.
virtual recluse…fulfilled at last: Ibid., pp. 442–43.
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From the collection of Louise Taper.
Ohio Historical Society.
The Saint Louis Art Museum.
Library of Congress: front endpapers, back endpapers.
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Picture History.
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Brown University Library.
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National Archives.
Courtesy of J. Wayne Lee.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Art Resource, New York.
Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society.
Civil War Collection, Eastern Kentucky University Archives, Richmond, Kentucky.
White House Historical Association (White House Collection).
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN won the Pulitzer Prize in history for No Ordinary Time. She is also the author of the bestselling Wait Till Next Year, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband, Richard Goodwin.
Photographic Insert
Abraham Lincoln photographed at age forty-eight in Chicago on February 28, 1857. The lawyer’s political star had begun to rise at last. A year later, accepting his party’s nomination for U.S. senator, he would utter the famous words “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
Mary Todd Lincoln, shown here at twenty-eight, after four years of marriage. Upon their first meeting, Lincoln told Mary: “I want to dance with you in the worst way.” And, Mary laughingly told her cousin later that night, “he certainly did.”
The Lincolns were indulgent parents, believing that “love is the chain whereby to lock a child to its parent.” Robert was the eldest (3), followed by Willie (4) and Tad (5). Another son, Eddie, died of tuberculosis in 1850 at the age of three.
When William H. Seward, shown here at age forty-three (6), married Frances Miller (7), the daughter of a wealthy judge, in 1824,