Part 76 (1/2)

”slightly wrinkled...the wrinkles there”: William Calkins, ”The First of the Lincoln and Douglas Debates,” quoted in ibid., pp. 16970.

melancholy does not have: See Jerome Kagan, Galen's Prophecy: Temperament in Human Nature, with the collaboration of Nancy Snidman, Doreen Arcus, and J. Steven Reznick (New York: Basic Books, 1994), pp. 78.

”a tendency to...not a fault”: AL to Mary Speed, September 27, 1841, in CW, I, p. 261.

”Melancholy...a sense of humor”: Thomas Pynchon, introduction to The Teachings of Don B.: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Ill.u.s.trated Stories, and Plays of Donald Barthelme, ed. Kim Herzinger (New York: Turtle Bay Books, Random House, 1992), p. xviii.

”When he first came...boiled over”: James H. Matheny interview, November 1866, in HI, p. 432.

”he emerged...he lived, again”: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 147.

”necessary to his...relaxation in anecdotes”: Joshua F. Speed to WHH, December 6, 1866, in HI, p. 499.

He laughed, he explained: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 148.

”joyous, universal evergreen of life”: AL, quoted in Nicolay, Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln, p. 16.

”to whistle off sadness”: David Davis interview, September 20, 1866, in HI, pp. 348, 350.

”Humor, like hope...to be borne”: George E. Vaillant, The Wisdom of the Ego, p. 73.

”Humor can be marvelously...corrosive”: Unnamed source, quoted in ibid., p. 73.

to rescue a pig...”his own mind”: AL, quoted in Nicolay, Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln, p. 81.

tortured turtles...”it was wrong”: Nathaniel Grigsby interview, September 12, 1865, in HI, p. 112.

He refused to hunt animals: Miller, Lincoln's Virtues, pp. 2627.

”the never-absent idea”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, March 27, 1842, in CW, I, p. 282.

”By the imagination...what he feels”: Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (London: A. Millar, 1759; facsimile, New York: Garland Publis.h.i.+ng, 1971), pp. 23.

”With his wealth...that way themselves”: Nicolay, Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln, pp. 213, 77, 78.

marriage was tumultuous...was harder for Mary: With Malice Toward None, pp. 6970; Strozier, Lincoln's Quest for Union, p. 119; Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 10510.

Lincoln helped with the marketing and the dishes: Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, p. 279.

Julia Bates's early marriage: Darby, ”Mrs. Julia Bates” in Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, n.p.; EB to Frederick Bates, June 15 and July 19, 1818, quoted in ibid.

Frances Seward spared household ch.o.r.es: Seward, An Autobiography, pp. 62, 382, 466; Patricia C. Johnson, ”'I Could Not be Well or Happy at Home...When Called to the Councils of My Country': Politics and the Seward Family,” University of Rochester Library Bulletin 31 [hereafter URLB] (Autumn 1978), pp. 42, 47, 49.

Lincolns detached from respective families: Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 10507, 11112.

When Lincoln was away: Ibid., pp. 10809.

Frances's family surrounded her: Johnson, ”I Could Not be Well or Happy at Home,” URLB, p. 42.

Julia Bates's family in St. Louis: Bates, Bates, et al., of Virginia and Missouri, n.p.