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    Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln


     

    Michael Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln
    (University of Illinois Press, )
     
    Mary Todd Lincoln was an original. &#;Mrs Lincoln is like no human being I ever saw. She is not easy to get along with, though I succeed pretty well with her,&#; wrote one Federal official who had frequent dealings with her. 1 Mary Todd Lincoln was described at the time she made her home in Springfield in &#;She was of the average height, weighing about a hundred and thirty pounds. She was rather compactly built, had a well rounded face, rich dark-brown hair, and bluish-gray eyes. In her bearing she was proud, but handsome and vivacious; she was a good conversationalist, using with equal fluency the French and English languages.&#; This observer wrote: &#;When she used a pen, its point was sure to be sharp, and she wrote with wit and ability. She not only had a quick intellect but an intuitive judgment of men and their motives. Ordi

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    Family: Mary Todd Lincoln ()

    Called &#;Mother&#; bygd Mr. Lincoln, Mary Todd was the fourth child of Robert and Eliza Parker Todd. Raised in Lexington, Kentucky, Mary came to Springfield, Illinois to visit her sisters in After a tumultuous courtship, she married Abraham Lincoln on November 4, Often self-absorbed and petulant, she was nonetheless devoted to her immediate family while frequently engagerad in feuds with other family members. As a young woman, Mary was as buoyant and debonair as she was bitter and dour as a widow. Raised in a slave-owning family, she became a fervent abolitionist, one of whose closest friends was her black seamstress, Elizabeth Keckley.

    Her southern background and Illinois husband led to snobbish questions about her social grace when she arrived in Washington. Mrs. Lincoln was caught between nordlig prejudice of her southern background and southern prejudice of her northern sympathies. Recent First Ladies had been virtually invisible in Washington. Mary

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    Their backgrounds could not have been more different. Abraham Lincoln was born and raised in a one-room log cabin; Mary Todd was born and raised in a fourteen-room house. Abraham received less than one year of formal schooling; Mary received education throughout her childhood. Despite these opposite backgrounds, they met one night at a dance in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham approached Mary, and told her that he wanted to dance with her "in the worst way." As she later related the story, she said he did just that - danced with her in the worst way. She overlooked his two left feet and they began courting. However, her eldest sister - Elizabeth - and Elizabeth's husband - Ninian - disapproved of the uncultured Mr. Lincoln. The young couple broke off their courtship on what Lincoln referred to as the "fatal first of January"

    For over a year, Abraham and Mary avoided each other, until mutual friends brought them back together. They dated in secret. Mary did not tell Elizabeth until t

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