He buried himself...Equity Jurisprudence: Donald, Lincoln, p. 55; Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 43.
able to read and reread his books..."any other one thing": AL to Isham Reavis, November 5, 1855, in CW, II, p. 327.
"I am Anne Rutledge...: Edgar Lee Masters, "Anne Rutledge," in Spoon River Anthology (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914; 1916), p. 220.
Lincoln would take..."wooded knoll" to read: W. D. Howells, "Life of Abraham Lincoln," in Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (New York: W. A. Townsend & Co., and Columbus, Ohio: Follett, Foster & Co., 1860), p. 31.
"it is true...of her now": Isaac Cogdal interview, 18651866, in HI, p. 440.
"Eyes blue large, & Expressive," auburn hair: Mentor Graham interview, April 2, 1866, in ibid., p. 242.
"She was beloved by Every body": Ibid., p. 243.
"quick...worthy of Lincoln"s love": William G. Greene to WHH (interview), May 30, 1865, in ibid., p. 21.
that they would marry...at Jacksonville: Thomas, Lincoln"s New Salem, p. 82; Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I, p. 119.
details of Ann"s death: Rankin, Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 7374.
"indifferent... woods by him self": Henry McHenry to WHH, January 8, 1866, in HI, p. 155.
"never seen a man...he did": Elizabeth Abell to WHH, February 15, 1867, in ibid., p. 557.
"be reconcile[d]...temporarily deranged": William G. Greene interview, May 30, 1865, in ibid., p. 21.
"reason would desert her throne": Robert B. Rutledge to WHH, ca. November 1, 1866, in ibid., p. 383.
he ran "off the track": Isaac Cogdal interview, [18651866], in ibid., p. 440.
"I hear the loved survivors tell...": AL to Andrew Johnston, April 18, 1846, in CW, I, p. 379.
"was not crazy": Elizabeth Abell to WHH, February 15, 1867, in HI, p. 557.
"Only people...and heal them": Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, quoted in George E. Vaillant, The Wisdom of the Ego (Cambridge, Ma.s.s., and London: Harvard University Press, 1993), p. 358.
"I"m afraid...last of us": AL to Mrs. Samuel Hill, quoted in Wilson, Honor"s Voice, p. 83.56 of any "faith in life after death": Bruce, "The Riddle of Death," in The Lincoln Enigma, pp. 13739. Lincoln wrote to his stepbrother that were his father to die soon, Thomas Lincoln would have a "joyous [meeting] with many loved ones gone before; and where [the rest] of us, through the help of G.o.d, hope ere-long [to join] them." AL to John D. Johnston, January 12, 1851, in CW, II, p. 97.
his "heart was broken"...eternal companionship: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, October 1, 1845, reel 6, Chase Papers.
"to a higher world...with her mother": Bates diary, November 15, 1846.
"I ought to be able...in these reflections": WHS to Charlotte S. Cushman, January 7, 1867, Vol. 13, The Papers of Charlotte S. Cushman, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress.
his "experiment...never saw a sadder face": Speed, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, p. 21.
Speed had heard Lincoln speak: Ibid., pp. 1718; Joshua F. Speed statement, 18651866, in HI, p. 477.
"You seem to be..."I am moved!"": Speed, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 2122.
description of Joshua Speed: See ibid., pp. 314; Robert L. Kincaid, Joshua Fry Speed: Lincoln"s Most Intimate Friend, reprinted from The Filson Club History Quarterly 17 (Louisville, Ky.: Filson Club, 1943; Harrogate, Tenn.: Department of Lincolniana, Lincoln Memorial University, 1943), pp. 1011.
Lincoln and Speed shared: For the relationship between Lincoln and Speed, see Speed, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln; Kincaid, Joshua Fry Speed, pp. 1314.
as his "most intimate friend": Kincaid, Joshua Fry Speed, pp. 10, 33 n2.
"You know my desire...to do any thing": AL to Joshua F. Speed, February 13, 1842, in CW, I, p. 269.
Some have suggested: C. A. Tripp, The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Lewis Gannett (New York: Free Press, 2005), pp. 12629.
sharing a bed: Rotundo, American Manhood, pp. 8485; Strozier, Lincoln"s Quest for Union, p. 43.
The room above Speed"s store: Michael Burlingame, "A Respectful Dissent," Afterword I, in Tripp, The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, p. 228.
attorneys of the Eighth Circuit...for a companion: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, pp. 63, 72.
the "preoccupation...the nineteenth": Donald Yacovone, "Abolitionists and the "Language of Fraternal Love,"" in Meanings for Manhood: Constructions of Masculinity in Victorian America, ed. Mark C. Carnes and Clyde Griffen (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), p. 94.
CHAPTER 3: THE LURE OF POLITICS
"Scarcely have you...as to an a.s.sembly": Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. and trans. Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000), p. 232.
Noah Webster"s Elementary Spelling Book: Fidler, "Young Limbs of the Law," pp. 17576.
"Who can wonder...hush before his": Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Eloquence," in The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and Solitude, Vol. VI, Fireside Edition (Boston and New York: n.p., 1870; 1898), p. 65.
Bates was the first..."form of government": Cain, Lincoln"s Attorney General, pp. 89, 11 (quotes pp. 9, 11); Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution, p. 247.
"This momentous question...of the Union": Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, April 22, 1820, The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. XII, Federal Edition, ed. Paul Leicester Ford (New York and London: G. P. Putnam"s Sons/The Knickerbocker Press, 1905), p. 158.
Missouri Compromise: "Missouri Compromise," in The Reader"s Companion to American History, ed. Foner and Garraty, p. 737.
"Great Pacificator": Stephen Douglas, quoted by AL, "Speech at Peoria, Illinois," October 16, 1854, in CW, Il, p. 251.
"emerged as one"...candidates for state offices: Cain, Lincoln"s Attorney General, pp. 1415 (quote p. 14).
tensions developed between Senators Barton and Benton: Cain, Lincoln"s Attorney General, pp. 1922.
The Whigs favored public support: See Michael F. Holt, The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 27, 64, 6670.
"a most beautiful woman": John F. Darby, "Mrs. Julia Bates, Widow of the Late Ed. Bates, Esq. For the Republican," reprinted in Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, p. 31.
Julia"s South Carolina family: Ibid., pp. 3132.
Her surviving letters: Julia Davenport Bates to Caroline Hatcher Bates, April 10, 1850; Julia Davenport Bates to Onward Bates, July 24, 1855, February 14, 1861, Bates Papers, MoSHi.
"was calculated...domestic circle": Darby, "Mrs. Julia Bates," reprinted in Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, p. 31.