Personal recollections of my father and Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Davis [manuscript], post 1906.

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Personal recollections of my father and Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Davis [manuscript], post 1906.

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Herrick writes about her father Albert Taylor Bledsoe, minister, lawyer and professor and author. Topics include Bledsoe's education; disatisfaction with the Episcopal Church; living with this wife in the same Springfield, Ill., hotel as Abraham and Mary Lincoln; Sophia as baby sitter for Robert Todd Lincoln; Lincoln's fascination with mesmerism; the Lincoln shields duel with broadswords; attitude towards slavery; Confederate service as author of "Is Davis a traitor?"; editor of "The Southern Review"; articles about Bledsoe; controversy with Dr. R. L. Dabney over doctrines held by the Plymouth Brethern; and personality.

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