Part 110 (2/2)

”the most lovable...gentle-mannered”: Ibid., p. 8.

retreat to his mother's room...write verses: Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 120.

”what she wanted when she wanted it”: Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, p. 49.

A curious example...purple strings!: Ibid., pp. 4348 (quotes p. 45).

brothers and brothers-in-law: Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 294; Ishbel Ross, The President's Wife: Mary Todd Lincoln, A Biography (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973), p. 144.

the White House...”unsuccessful hotel”: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 26.

”the family apartments...(first President)”: Grimsley, ”Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, p. 47.

went on a shopping trip: See entries for May 1022, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, pp. 4143.

$20,000 allowance to maintain the White House: Seale, The President's House, Vol. I, p. 382.

state guest room...”cl.u.s.ters of grapes”: Betty C. Monkman, The White House: Its Historic Furnis.h.i.+ngs and First Families (New York: Abbeville Press, 2000), p. 125.

The press exaggerated...never even visited: Grimsley, ”Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, pp. 5859.

the bills added up: Entries for May 13, 21, 24, and 29, 1861, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, pp. 41, 4345.

Kate Chase was hard at work...to borrow $10,000: Ross, Proud Kate, p. 62; SPC to Henry Carrington, April 16, 1861, reel 15, Chase Papers.

Chase later complained...with the president: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 94.

”in a single season”...William Sprague: William Perrine, ”The Das.h.i.+ng Kate Chase and Her Great Ambition,” Ladies' Home Journal XVIII (June 1901), p. 11.

Kate had first met...”see the other”: Richard Parsons, quoted in Ohio State Journal, Columbus, Ohio, August 4, 1899.

Sprague would never forget...”it was yesterday”: William Sprague to KCS, May 27, 1866, William and Catherine Chase Sprague Papers, 18501900, MS 79. 17, Ma.n.u.script Division, Special Collections Department, Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island [hereafter Sprague Papers].

William Sprague: Peg A. Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), pp. 2728.

”I was thrust...highest positions”: William Sprague, quoted in Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague, p. 32.

As the largest employer...of his own money: ”The Rhode Island Spragues,” unknown newspaper clipping, December 5, 1883, in KCS vertical file, DWP.

”a loan...the troops”: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 42; ninety-six horses, Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague, p. 39.

On April 29...”movements of the regiment”: Star, April 29, 1861.

physical description of Sprague: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, p. 42.

”a small...wealth and social standing”: ”26 April 1861, Friday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 12.

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