Mrs. L h ranam o mcom A STUDY OF HER PERSONALITY AND HER INFLUENCE
ON LINCOLN W. A. ELVANS M. S., M. D. NEW YORK ALFRED A-KNOPF
MCMXXXII Copyright 1932 by Alfred A. Knopf y Inc. All rights
reserved no part of this book may be reprinted in any form without
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in the United States of America Mrs. Lincoln in her wedding dress.
Preface WHEN ONE UNDERTAKES A STUDY OF THE LIFE OF A public man or
woman, one can expect to find some thing of a printed record. If
the study is based on the sub jects connection with high lights of
history, the sources of information are easily accessible. Nor is
there a dearth of material when one delves somewhat more into the
private life of a person who is very much under public observation.
Free access to a few good libraries generally suffices to make
available as much material as can be used. But when one undertakes
a study of a wife and mother who lived over fifty years ago, even
though her husband was President of the United States, the task is
not so easy. If the undertaking includes an investigation of her
behavior private as well as public the difficulties are greater. To
attempt to ex plain that behavior in the light of more modern views
of personality adds to the difficulties. There are many Abraham
Lincoln collectors and a large Lincoln literature, but there are no
Mrs. Lincoln collectors, and no collection of Mrs. Lincoln
literature. It is true that much has been written about the wife of
the first president to be assassinated, but it is not assembled.
The material must be sought for in many places. It is a pleasure
for me to acknowledge the help I have had, and to express
myappreciation thereof and gratitude therefor to Mrs. J. O. Wynn,
my sister, who visited Lexington, Ken tucky, three times and there
interviewed Mrs. Emilie Todd Helm, her three children, and others
relatives of Mrs. Lincoln and descendants of friends of her family.
Mrs. Wynn read the files of the Lexington papers from 1817 to 1 840
and other documents in the Lexington Public Library PREFACE and in
the library of Transylvania College. She read the Draper Collection
in the State Historical Society of Wis consin, and the Durrett
Collection in the University of Chicago. Mrs. I. D. Rawlings, wife
of my long-time associate in the Chicago and the Illinois
Departments of Health, who read the files of the Springfield
papers, and other documents and books, in the Illinois State
Historical Society, Spring field. The following libraries for
access to their Lincoln mate rial and newspaper files given either
to me personally or to someone helping with the investigation those
of the Chi cago Tribune, the Chicago Historical Society, and the Il
linois State Historical Society, the Newberry Library, the library
of the University of Chicago, the Chicago Public Library, the
library of the State Historical Society of Wis consin, that of
Transylvania College, the Lexington Public Library, the John Hay
Library of Brown University, the Congressional Library, the New
York Public Library, the Huntington Library, the library of the
Union League Club of Chicago, and that of the Lincoln Historical
Research Foundation to the librarians and their assistants for in
telligent guidance and help, especially Mildred Burke, of the
Chicago Tribune Library, Mrs. Harriet Taylor, of the Newberry
Library, and Mrs. Charles F.Norton, of Tran sylvania College
Library. Dr. B. J. Cigrand, of Batavia, Illinois, who undertook to
find what medical record the Bellevue Place Sanatorium had of Mrs.
Lincoln. When he found that the sanatorium had not saved any of Dr.
R. J. Pattersons notes or the history sheets of Mrs. Lincolns
mental illness, Dr. Cigrand put at my disposal his collection of
newspaper references to Mrs. Lincoln, consisting principally of
items appearing in the Fox River Valley papers, and those of
Chicago in 1875. Oliver R...
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