Part 103 (1/2)
”In the cars...jealousies and hatreds”: TW to WHS, February 14, 1861, reel 61, Seward Papers.
”Your recent speech...over the country”: AL to WHS, January 19, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 176.
”he had heard from...on it at present”: Entry of February 5, 1861, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.
”Seward made all...says so openly”: Carl Schurz to his wife, February 9, 1861, in Schurz, Intimate Letters of Carl Schurz, 18411869, p. 247.
CHAPTER 11: ”I AM NOW PUBLIC PROPERTY”
Mary journeyed to New York: Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 69; Randall, Mary Lincoln, pp. 19294.
”wild to see”: MTL to Adeline Judd, June 13, 1860, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 64.
feted by merchants...”an obsession”: Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 192.
”Could he...disgrace the Nation?”: Elizabeth Todd Grimsley, ”Six Months in the White House,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society XIX (October 1926January 1927), p. 44.
”outward appearance...Presidential father”: Entries for January 2325, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 7; Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, p. 55 (quote).
decided to rent out their house: Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 72.
”the most brilliant...in many years”: Entry for February 6, 1861, Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 9; Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, p. 63 (quote).
”with a rope around...tar and feathers”: Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, pp. 5253.
he sought places to isolate himself: WHH, quoted in Miller, Lincoln's Virtues, p. 442; Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, pp. 5758.
”unusually grave...old and faithful friends”: Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, p. 64.
farewell to his beloved stepmother...father's grave: Ibid., pp. 5556.
”If I live...nothing had ever happened”: AL, quoted in Donald, Lincoln, p. 272.
packed his own trunk...”Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.”: Weik, The Real Lincoln, p. 307.
”His face was pale...a single word”: Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, p. 71.
”My friends...an affectionate farewell”: AL, ”Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois [A. Version],” February 11, 1861, in CW, IV, p. 190.
”As he turned...the silent gathering”: NYH, February 12, 1861.
the luxurious presidential car...president-elect: Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 202.
”sat alone and depressed”: Villard, Lincoln on the Eve of '61, p. 73.
”forsaken...hilarious good spirits”: ”Indianapolis Correspondence, 11 February 1861,” in Hay, Lincoln's Journalist, p. 24.
Jefferson Davis was beginning: Entries for February 11 and 18, 1861, in Long, The Civil War Day by Day, pp. 3536, 3839; Davis, Jefferson Davis, pp. 30407; The Papers of Jefferson Davis. Vol. VII: 1861, ed. Lynda La.s.s-well Crist and Mary Seaton Dix (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1992), p. 46.