"Men and horses...every day": JH to JGN, August 13, 1863, in Hay, At Lincoln"s Side, p. 50.
"The garments cling...is over everything": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln"s Washington, p. 223.
"hot, dusty weather...discomfort of Washington": EMS to Ellen Stanton, August 25, 1863, quoted in Gideon Stanton, ed., "Edwin M. Stanton" (quotes); Pinsker, Lincoln"s Sanctuary, pp. 11617.
"Nearly everybody...skeddadled from the heat": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln"s Washington, p. 223.
Mary fled the capital...through most of August: AL to MTL, August 8, 1863, Lincoln Papers; Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 15354.
A correspondent..."smiling face": Boston Journal, August 10, 1863.
Lincoln talked about the heat..."distress about it": AL to MTL, August 8, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
Only in mid-September...with her and with Tad: AL to MTL, September 21 and 22, 1863, in CW, VI, pp. 471, 474.
Mary understood..."to letter writing": MTL to AL, November 2, [1862], in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 139.
"I wish I could gain...put to the test": FAS to WHS, June 17, 1863, reel 114, Seward Papers.
"Every day...gone to the field": WHS to [FAS], July 25, 1863, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18611872, p. 177.
she despaired when..."killed & wounded": FAS to WHS, July 5, 1863, reel 114, Seward Papers.
Only with Frances...exhaustion: WHS to FAS, June 8, 1863, reel 112, Seward Papers.
"Thenceforth...constant devotion to business": Robert Todd Lincoln to Dr. J. G. Holland, June 6, 1865, box 6, folder 37, William Barton Collection, Special Collections of the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago.
the Equinox House...dining facilities: "From The Beginning," historical pamphlet, Equinox House, Manchester, Vt.
Mary climbed a mountain...Doubleday and his wife: Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 229; NYH, September 1,1863.
"We did again...fortunes": William Sprague to KCS, May 27, 1866, Sprague Papers.
his immense manufacturing company...weekly: "The Rhode Island Spragues," December 5, 1883, unidentified newspaper, KCS vertical file, DWP.
"I want to show you...undone or destroyed": William Sprague to KCS, May 1, 1863, Sprague Papers.
"The Gov and Miss Kate...into their fold": William Sprague to Hiram Barney, May 18, 1863, Salmon Portland Chase Collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia [hereafter Chase Papers, Phi.].
"The business...lost its ident.i.ty": William Sprague to KCS, June 16, 1863, Sprague Papers.
"a wilderness, a blank": William Sprague to KCS, July 1, 1863, Sprague Papers.
He kept her miniature..."strong a hold": William Sprague to KCS, June 3, 7 and 8, 1863, Sprague Papers (quotes from June 7 letter).
"I am my darling up...with the sunshine": William Sprague to KCS, May 21, 1863, Sprague Papers.
"I hope my darling...morning and adieu": William Sprague to KCS, June 1, 1863, Sprague Papers.
Chase opened the discussion..."any due to me": SPC to William Sprague, June 6, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
"Probably no woman...her successes": Washington Post, August 1, 1899.
"Scarcely a person...lent a charm to the whole": FS to LW, February 1, 1863, reel 116, Seward Papers.
Kate persuaded William: William Sprague to SPC, May 31, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers; William Sprague to KCS, June 12, 1863, Sprague Papers; SPC to William Sprague, July 14, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
"idea of taking...So I yield the point": SPC to William Sprague, July 14, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
Chase would continue...William would cover: SPC to William Sprague, July 14, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers; William Sprague to KCS, July 22, 1863, Sprague Papers; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 342.
"the delicate link...united father & daughter": William Sprague to SPC, November 4, 1863, reel 29, Chase Papers.
Sprague wisely decided..."enduring love": William Sprague to KCS, June 12, 1863, Sprague Papers.
"Katie showed me...full wealth of her affections": SPC to William Sprague, June 6, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
"as much of the pecuniary burden as possible": William Sprague to SPC, May 31, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
to divest himself: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, pp. 8485.
he informed Jay Cooke..."all right-minded men": SPC to Jay Cooke, June 1, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
he returned a check..."as be right": SPC to Jay Cooke, June 2, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
Chase joined Kate...returned to Washington: Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague, p. 54.
his only companion..."sympathetic way": SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, August 19, 1863, reel 28, Chase Papers (quote). See also note 2 to published edition of August 19 letter in The Salmon P. Chase Papers. Vol. IV: Correspondence, April 18631864, ed. John Niven (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, 1997), p. 106 n2.
He chastised Nettie...carelessness pained him: SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, August 19, 1863, reel 28, Chase Papers.
he reprimanded Kate...vacation expenses: SPC to KCS, August 19, 1863, reel 28, Chase Papers.
a warm correspondence..."her letters": Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, pp. 8889 (quote p. 89).
Mrs. Eastman described..."of his own idolatry?": Charlotte S. Eastman to SPC, July 19, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
"What a sweet letter"...attend to the president: SPC to Charlotte S. Eastman, August 22, 1863, reel 28, Chase Papers.
"The Tyc.o.o.n is in fine whack...where he is": JH to JGN, August 7, 1863, in Hay, At Lincoln"s Side, p. 49.
Hay had a good sense of humor..."peal of fun": Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, pp. 9394.
Hay accompanied the president: August 9, 1863, photograph of AL, in Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Lincoln: An Ill.u.s.trated Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), p. 216.
"very good spirits": "9 August 1863, Sunday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln"s White House, p. 70.
Rigidly posed...unsmiling portrait: Kunhardt, et al., Lincoln, p. 216.