Authors: Doris Kearns Goodwin
“delirious to the extent…he was doing”: Browning, quoted in Nicolay,
An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln,
p. 2.
“Poor L!…truly deplorable”: James Conkling to Mercy Ann Levering, January 24, 1841, quoted in Wilson, “Abraham Lincoln and ‘That Fatal First of January,’” in Wilson,
Lincoln Before Washington,
p. 117.
was called hypochondriasis: See J. S. Forsyth,
The New London Medical and Surgical Dictionary
(London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1826), p. 379; Robley Dunglison, M.D.,
A New Dictionary of Medical Science and Literature, Containing a Concise Account of the Various Subjects and Terms; with the Synonymes in Different Languages; and Formulae for Various Officinal and Empirical Preparations,
Vol. I (Boston: Charles Bowen, 1833), p. 508; German E. Berrios, “Hypochondriasis: History of the Concept,” in Vladan Starcevic and Don R. Lipsitt, eds.,
Hypochondriasis: Modern Perspectives on an Ancient Malady
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 3–20.
“I have, within…to my existence”: AL to John T. Stuart, January 20, 1841, in
CW,
I, p. 228. Dr. Henry did not receive the postmastership of Springfield.
“I am now the most…it appears to me: AL to John T. Stuart, January 23, 1841, in ibid., p. 229.
Hoping medical treatment…“without a personal interview”: Joshua F. Speed to WHH, November 30, 1866, in
HI,
p. 431.
the nadir of Lincoln’s depression…most certainly die: Speed,
Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln,
p. 39.
“done nothing…desired to live for”: Joshua F. Speed to WHH, February 7, 1866, in
HI,
p. 197.
“ideas of a person’s…perceive him”: William G. Thalmann,
The Odyssey: An Epic of Return. Twayne’s Masterwork Studies,
No. 100 (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992), p. 39.
“To see memory…thought with others”: Bruce, “The Riddle of Death,” in
The Lincoln Enigma,
p. 141.
“thou midway world…and paradise”: AL to Andrew Johnston, April 18, 1846, in
CW,
I, p. 378.
critical to “avoid being
idle”
: AL to Joshua F. Speed, February 13, 1842, in ibid., p. 269.
“
business and conversation
…bitterness of death”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, [January 3?, 1842], in ibid., p. 265.
he delivered an eloquent address…“than a gallon of gall”: AL, “Temperance Address. An Address, Delivered before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society,” February 22, 1842, in ibid., p. 273.
“An outstanding…future growth”: George E. Vaillant,
Adaptation to Life
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1977), p. 27.
“quite clear of the hypo…in the fall”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, February 3, 1842, in
CW,
I, p. 268.
“much alone of late…
countenances
me”: MTL to Mercy Ann Levering, June 1841, in Turner and Turner,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
pp. 25, 27.
mutual friends conspired: Baker,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
p. 93.
“worse sort…can realize”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, February 25, 1842, in
CW,
I, p. 280. For correspondence between Lincoln and Speed discussing Speed’s doubts during courtship of Fanny Henning, see AL to Speed, [January 3?], February 3, and February 13, 1842, in ibid., pp. 265–70.
“sailed through clear”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, July 4, 1842, in ibid., p. 289.
“‘Are you now’…impatient to know”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, October 5, 1842, in ibid., p. 303.
and was, in fact, very happy: AL to Joshua F. Speed, March 27, 1842, in ibid., p. 282.
description of the wedding: Baker,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
pp. 97–98; Helm,
The True Story of Mary,
pp. 93–95.
“Nothing new here…of profound wonder”: AL to Samuel D. Marshall, November 11, 1842, in
CW,
I, p. 305.
“Full many a flower”: Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” in
The Norton Anthology of Poetry,
3rd edn., ed. Alexander W. Allison, et al. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1983), pp. 249–50.
“His melancholy…as he walked”: Herndon, “Analysis of the Character,”
ALQ
(1941), p. 359.
“No element…profound melancholy”: Whitney,
Life on the Circuit with Lincoln,
p. 146.
“This melancholy…with his brains”: Henry C. Whitney to WHH, June 23, 1887, in
HI,
p. 616.
“his face was…ever looked upon”: Joseph Wilson Fifer, quoted in Rufus Rockwell Wilson,
Intimate Memories of Lincoln
(Elmira, N.Y.: Primavera Press, 1945), p. 155.
“slightly wrinkled…the wrinkles there”: William Calkins, “The First of the Lincoln and Douglas Debates,” quoted in ibid., pp. 169–70.
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. 7–8.
“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, Illustrated 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. 26–27.
“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 Publishing, 1971), pp. 2–3.
“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. 69–70; Strozier,
Lincoln’s Quest for Union,
p. 119; Baker,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
pp. 105–10.
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 chores: 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. 105–07, 111–12.
When Lincoln was away: Ibid., pp. 108–09.
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.
“the kindest…was necessary”: MTL interview, September 1866, in
HI,
p. 357.
a gentle and indulgent father: Herndon and Weik,
Herndon’s Life of Lincoln,
p. 344. See also “‘Unrestrained by Parental Tyranny’: Lincoln and His Sons,” chapter 3 in Burlingame,
The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln,
pp. 57–72.
“litterally ran over…their importunities”: Joseph Gillespie to WHH, January 31, 1866, in
HI,
p. 181.
“It is my pleasure…child to its parent”: AL, quoted in MTL interview, September 1866, in ibid., p. 357.
“Now if you should…he is mistaken”: AL to Richard S. Thomas, February 14, 1843, in
CW,
I, p. 307.
“That ‘union is strength’…‘cannot stand’”: “Campaign Circular from Whig Committee,” March 4, 1843, in ibid., p. 315.
“We had a meeting…own dear ‘gal’”: AL to Joshua F. Speed, March 24, 1843, in ibid., p. 319.
his defeat in Sangamon…“family distinction”: AL to Martin S. Morris, March 26, 1843, in ibid., p. 320.
in Pekin…idea of rotating terms: AL, “Resolution Adopted at Whig Convention at Pekin, Illinois,” May 1, 1843, in ibid., p. 322.
Lincoln left nothing to chance: Thomas,
Abraham Lincoln,
p. 105.
He asked friends to share…every precinct: Beveridge,
Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1858,
Vol. II, pp. 74–75.
“a quiet trip…vigilance”: AL to Benjamin F. James, January 14, 1846, in
CW,
I, p. 354.
“That Hardin is talented…‘is fair play’”: AL to Robert Boal, January 7, 1846, in ibid., p. 353.
“not…all other grounds”: AL to John J. Hardin, February 7, 1846, in ibid., p. 364.
“I am not a politician…their ends”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, August 29, 1840, reel 5, Chase Papers.
James G. Birney: See Betty Fladeland,
James Gillespie Birney: Slaveholder to Abolitionist
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1955), esp. pp. 129–36.
a group of white community leaders: Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 47.
On a hot summer night…continued to publish: Fladeland,
James Gillespie Birney,
pp. 136–37; Blue,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 29.
the mob returned…tarred and feathered: Fladeland,
James Gillespie Birney,
pp. 140–41.
he raced to the hotel…“at any time”: SPC, quoted in Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 48.
“His voice and commanding…right time”: Ibid.
“No man…courage and resolution”: Hart,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 435.
“By dedicating himself…in its pursuit”: Maizlish, “Salmon P. Chase,”
JER
(1998), p. 62.
background of the
Matilda
case: Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 50–51; Hart,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 73–74; Schuckers,
The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase,
pp. 41–44.
“Every settler…interdicts slavery”: SPC,
Speech of Salmon P. Chase in the Case of the Colored Woman, Matilda: Who was Brought Before the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County, Ohio, by Writ of Habeas Corpus, March 11, 1837
(Cincinnati: Pugh & Dodd, 1837), pp. 29, 30, 8.
they were printed in pamphlet form: SPC,
Speech of Salmon P. Chase in the Case of the Colored Woman, Matilda.
110 Chase versus the Garrisonians: Hart,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 50, 55–56, 65.
“a covenant with…agreement with hell”: Quoted in James Brewer Stewart,
William Lloyd Garrison and the Challenge of Emancipation.
American Biographical History Series (Arlington Heights, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1992), p. 164.
Chase decided, to try for public office…city establishments: Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 57–59.
the
“vital
question of slavery”: SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, August 29, 1840, reel 5, Chase Papers.
Chase and the Liberty Party: Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
pp. 67–70; Eric Foner,
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1970), pp. 78–81. See also “Liberty Party,” in
The Reader’s Companion to American History,
ed. Foner and Garraty, p. 657.
“to interfere…where it exists”: “Proceedings and Resolutions of the Ohio Liberty Convention,”
Philanthropist,
December 29, 1841, quoted in Niven,
Salmon P. Chase,
p. 68.
“without constitutional warrant”: SPC to Gerrit Smith, May 14, 1842, reel 5, Chase Papers.
“has seen so little…the very first”: SPC to Joshua R. Giddings, January 21, 1842, reel 5, Chase Papers.