TMS, 1927 April 5.

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TMS, 1927 April 5.

Ealine Fay writes regarding her mother's care of Mary Lincoln. "After her husband's assassination she fell into deep melancholy, and after her son Tad died in Chicago in 1871 she suffered from periods of mild insanity."

1 p. ; 23 x 16.5 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7029430

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882

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Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. She served as First Lady from 1861 until his assassination in 1865 at Ford’s Theatre. Daughter of Eliza Parker and Robert Smith Todd, pioneer settlers of Kentucky, Mary lost her mother before the age of seven. Her father remarried; and Mary remembered her childhood as “desolate” although she belonged to the aristocracy of Lexington, with high-spirited social life and a sound private education. Just...

Fay, Ealine.

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