Mary Lincoln's Insanity Case by Jason Emerson

Author:Jason Emerson [Emerson, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, United States, 19th Century, Biography & Autobiography, Women
ISBN: 9780252094170
Google: R1oIHbjnd5YC
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012-09-15T16:04:02+00:00

* * *

* Unknown reference.

† Unknown.

‡ Minerva Grimsley Blow, wife of Henry Taylor Blow, who served as President Lincoln’s minister to Venezuela from June 1861 to February 1862, and then as a Republican Congressman from St. Louis, Missouri, from March 1863 to March 1867. Minerva Blow died in June 1875, two months prior to this letter.

§ Possibly the Reverend Dr. W. W. Evarts, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Chicago.

* Franc B. Wilkie, reporter for the Chicago Times.

† August 3, 1875.

‡ July 30, 1875.

* The Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane, established in Elgin [Kane County], Ill. in 1869.

* Ann Todd, Mary’s younger sister, the wife of Clark Moulton Smith, a Springfield, Ill., merchant.

* August 15, 1875.

* Josephine Remann was the wife of Albert Edwards, son of Ninian and Elizabeth Edwards.

* Mary herself wrote of this in 1869, “I am not EITHER a Spiritualist—but I sincerely believe—our loved ones, who have only, ‘gone before’ are permitted to watch over those who were dearer to them than life;” and that she knew her husband so watched over her. “I should have lost my reason long ere this—if I had entertained other views, than I do, on this subject.” Mary Lincoln to Sally Orne, Nov. 20, 1869, Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, 525–26. See also Mary Lincoln to Charles Sumner, July 4, 1865, ibid, 256.

* The author of this article was Mrs. M.L. Rayne, who previously had interviewed Mary Lincoln at Bellevue Place and published the report of her visit in the Chicago Post and Mail on July 13, 1875 (see chapter 6).

* Robert was with his family on vacation at Rye Beach, New Hampshire.

* Myra Bradwell, who actually had gone to Chicago to fetch the reporter and bring him to Batavia specifically so he could write a story.

† Secretary of State William H. Seward—a man whom Mary did not trust, never liked, and with whom she never was friends.

* John Lothrop Motley, U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1869–70, while Mary and Tad were touring Europe. President Lincoln appointed him Minister to Austria in 1861, where he served until 1869.

* This article was written by Franc B. Wilkie based on his August 7 interview with Mary Lincoln at Bellevue Place.

* Busybodies; gossips.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.