Lincoln was up early: Henry B. Rankin, Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (New York and London: G. P. Putnam"s Sons, 1916), p. 187.
Chenery House: Paul M. Angle, "Here I Have Lived": A History of Lincoln"s Springfield, 18211865 (Springfield, Ill.: Abraham Lincoln a.s.sociation, 1935), p. 175.
Springfield businesses: See advertis.e.m.e.nts in Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Ill., May 18, 1860.
first ballot was not due to be called until 10 a.m.: Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 19, 1860; Star, May 19, 1860. visibly "nervous, fidgety...excited": Christopher C. Brown interview, 18651866, in Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, eds., Herndon"s Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998), p. 438 [hereafter HI].
the untidy office: William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Herndon"s Life of Lincoln, introduction and notes by Paul M. Angle, new introduction by Henry Steele Commager (Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing Co., 1942; New York: Da Capo Press, 1983), pp. 25455.
The editorial room: Paul Angle, Lincoln in Springfield: A Guide to the Places in Springfield which were a.s.sociated with the Life of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, Ill.: Lincoln Centennial a.s.sociation, 1927), p. 2.
a "complimentary" gesture: Entry of May 19, 1860, in Edward Bates, The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, ed. Howard K. Beale. Vol. IV of the Annual Report of the American Historical a.s.sociation for the Year 1930 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1933), p. 130.
the town clock: Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Ill., January 17, 1860.
James Conkling: Clinton L. Conkling, "How Mr. Lincoln Received the News of His First Nomination," Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society (1909), p. 64.
his singular way of walking...needed oiling: Herndon and Weik, Herndon"s Life of Lincoln, p. 471.
"His legs...a hard day"s work": William E. Doster, Lincoln and Episodes of the Civil War (New York and London: G. P. Putnam"s Sons, 1915), p. 15.
His features..."as belong to a handsome man": Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 23, 1860.
"so overspread with sadness...capital of Illinois": Horace White, Abraham Lincoln in 1854: An Address delivered before the Illinois State Historical Society, at its 9th Annual Meeting at Springfield, Illinois, Jan. 30, 1908 (Springfield, Ill.: Illinois State Historical Society, 1908), p. 19.
"this expression...true friendship": Ibid.
"his winning manner...and gentleness": NYTrib, November 10, 1860.
"you cease to think...awkward": Utica Morning Herald, reprinted in NYTrib, July 9, 1860.
"on a borrowed horse...a few clothes": Joshua F. Speed, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Notes of a Visit to California (Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Co., 1884), p. 21.
population of Springfield: Harry E. Pratt, Lincoln"s Springfield (Springfield, Ill.: Abraham Lincoln a.s.sociation, 1938), p. 2; Octavia Roberts, Lincoln in Illinois (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918), p. 94.
number of hotels, saloons, etc.: C.S. Williams, comp., Williams" Springfield Directory City Guide, and Business Mirror, for 186061. To Which is Appended a List of Post Offices in the United States and Territories, Corrected up to Date (Springfield, Ill.: Johnson & Bradford, 1860).
"the belle of the town": "Lincoln and Mary Todd," [c. 1880s], reel 11, Herndon-Weik Collection of Lincolniana, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress [hereafter Herndon-Weik Collection, DLC].
Mary"s education: Ruth Painter Randall, Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage (Boston: Little, Brown, 1953), pp. 23, 25, 27, 28; Jean H. Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1987), pp. 3742, 4445.
"I want to dance...he certainly did": Katherine Helm, The True Story of Mary, Wife of Lincoln (New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1928), p. 74.
children born, and one buried in Springfield: AL, "Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois," February 11, 1861, in The Collected Works of Lincoln, Vol. IV, ed. Roy P. Basler (8 vols., New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 190.
"two-story"...no garden: New York Evening Post, reprinted in Albany Evening Journal, May 24, 1860 (quote); Utica Morning Herald, reprinted in NYTrib, July 9, 1860; Frances Todd Wallace interview, [18651866], in HI, p. 486.
"The adornments...chastely appropriate": Utica Morning Herald, reprinted in NYTrib, July 9, 1860.
"the customary little table": Carl Schurz, The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz. Vol. II: 18521863 (New York: McClure Co., 1907), p. 188.
"Everything tended to represent...showy display": Springfield [Ma.s.s.] Republican, May 23, 1860.
"moving heaven & Earth": David Davis and Jesse K. Dubois to AL, May 15, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
"a big brain and a big heart": Mrs. John A. Logan, quoted by Allan Nevins in foreword to Willard L. King, Lincoln"s Manager: David Davis (Cambridge, Ma.s.s.: Harvard University Press, 1960), p. xi.
Norman Judd: Ibid., pp. 12829.
he knew Lincoln "as intimately": Leonard Swett, quoted in Osborn H. Oldroyd, Lincoln"s Campaign, or The Political Revolution of 1860 (Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1896), p. 70.
the "circuit": Henry Clay Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, introduction and notes by Paul M. Angle (Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxon Printers, 1940), pp. 6188; see "Travelling on the Circuit," chapter 15 in Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I (New York: S. S. McClure Co., 1895; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917), pp. 24156.
Lincoln...the center of attention: Henry C. Whitney, Lincoln the Citizen. Vol. I of A Life of Lincoln (1892; New York: Baker & Taylor Co., 1908), pp. 19091; William H. Herndon, A Letter from William H. Herndon to Isaac N. Arnold Relating to Abraham Lincoln, His Wife, and Their Life in Springfield (privately printed, 1937).
crowds of villagers: Francis Fisher Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: N. D. Thompson Publishing Co., 1886; Lincoln, Nebr., and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995), p. 158.
emboldened his quest for office: David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), p. 106.
"broke down...mutual trust": Robert H. Wiebe, "Lincoln"s Fraternal Democracy," in John L. Thomas, ed., Abraham Lincoln and the American Political Tradition (Amherst: University of Ma.s.sachusetts Press, 1986), p. 19.
disparate elements of...Republican Party: Theodore Clarke Smith, The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Old Northwest. Harvard Historical Studies, Vol. VI (New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1897; New York: Russell & Russell, 1967), p. 1; William Lee Miller, Lincoln"s Virtues: An Ethical Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), p. 317.
"Of strange, discordant... fought the battle through": AL, "A House Divided": Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858, in CW, II, p. 468.
when speech-making prowess: Lawrence W. Levine, Highbrow / Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (Cambridge, Ma.s.s.: Harvard University Press, 1988), p. 36.
"from sun-up til sun-down": Christine Ann Fidler, "Young Limbs of the Law: Law Students, Legal Education and the Occupational Culture of Attorneys, 18201860." Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1996, p. 165.
attendance at Cooper Union speech: Benjamin P. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952), p. 202.
"one of the happiest...New York audience": NYTrib, February 28, 1860.
state convention at Decatur: Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 11, 1860; Don E. Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1962), p. 148.
"the Rail Candidate for President": NYH, May 24, 1860.
"with no clogs...rights of the South": Press and Tribune, Chicago, May 15, 1860. The Press and Tribune became the Tribune on October 25, 1860.
"new in the field...very great many": AL to Sam Galloway, March 24, 1860, in CW, IV, p. 34.
"in a mood to come...their first love": Ibid.
"We are laboring...for any result": Nathan M. Knapp to AL, May 14, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
"Am very hopeful...be Excited": David Davis to AL, May 17, 1860, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln stretched..."and practice law": Conkling, "How Mr. Lincoln Received the News," Transactions (1909), pp. 6465.