Part 68 (1/2)
”the panther's...on the swine”: ”The Bear Hunt,” [September 6, 1846?], in CW, I, p. 386.
Sarah, did the cooking...Dennis Hanks: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH (interview), June 13, 1865, in HI, p. 40.
a ”quick minded woman...laugh”: Nathaniel Grigsby interview, September 12, 1865, in ibid., p. 113.
”wild-ragged and dirty”: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, in ibid., p. 41.
soaped...”more human”: Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 106.
”sat down...to his grief”: Redmond Grigsby, quoted in Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, p. 95.
”From then on...you might say”: John W. Lamar, quoted in ibid.
”It is with deep grief...ever expect it”: AL to f.a.n.n.y McCullough, December 23, 1862, in CW, VI, pp. 1617.
”He was different...great potential”: Douglas L. Wilson, ”Young Man Lincoln,” in The Lincoln Enigma, p. 35.
”clearly exceptional...intellectual equal”: Donald, Lincoln, p. 32.
”soared above us...guide and leader”: Nathaniel Grigsby interview, September 12, 1865, in HI, p. 114.
”a Boy of uncommon natural Talents”: A. H. Chapman statement, ante September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 99.
”His mind & mine...if he could”: Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., pp. 108, 107.
”He was a strong...neighborhood”: Leonard Swett, ”Lincoln's Story of His Own Life,” in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time, ed. Allen Thorndike Rice (1885; New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1909), p. 71.
his great gift for storytelling...fireplace at night: Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in HI, p. 107; John Hanks interview, [18651866], in ibid., p. 454.
along the old c.u.mberland Trail: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 7.
Thomas Lincoln would swap tales: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, in HI, p. 37.
Young Abe listened...in his memory: Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 107.
Nothing was more upsetting...that was told: Rev. J. P. Gulliver article in New York Independent, September 1, 1864, quoted in F. B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1866), p. 312.
”no small part...to comprehend”: AL, quoted in ibid., pp. 31213.
having translated the stories...young listeners: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, and Dennis F. Hanks interview, September 8, 1865, in HI, pp. 42, 104; Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 107.
subscription schools: Donald, Lincoln, p. 29.
”No qualification...wizzard”: AL, ”Autobiography written for Jesse W. Fell,” December 20, 1859, in CW, III, p. 511.
”by littles”...pick up on his own: AL, ”Scripps autobiography,” in CW, IV, p. 62.
”he could lay his hands on”: Dennis F. Hanks to WHH, June 13, 1865, in HI, p. 41; Sarah Bush Lincoln interview, September 8, 1865, in ibid., p. 107; John S. Houghland interview, September 17, 1865, in ibid., p. 130.
”a luxury...the middle cla.s.s”: Fidler, ”Young Limbs of the Law,” p. 249.