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To: Badeye

Yes, she was “eccentric” from the time of their courtship and was NOT Lincoln’s first or true love

Have read that when their son died in the White House, Lincoln had to threaten to have her committed to St Elizabeth’s if she did not pull herself together

She also lost her brother to the Civil War, and supposedly suffered from hate mail from people cursing her and blaming her for the war dead


5 posted on 02/17/2009 8:06:21 AM PST by silverleaf ("Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury" - Screwtape)
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To: silverleaf

I’ve read the same things you document here as well.


6 posted on 02/17/2009 8:10:49 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: silverleaf; Badeye
The Madness of Mary Lincoln
8 posted on 02/17/2009 8:15:23 AM PST by BGHater (Tyranny is always better organised than freedom)
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