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- GLC#
- GLC00782.15-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 7, 1868
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882
- Title
- to A. D. Worthington
- Place Written
- Chicago, Illinois
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 17 cm, Width: 12 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Mary Todd Lincoln refuses a request to help with a biography of her husband, Abraham Lincoln, citing poor health and the many false accounts already written about him. "So many pretentious persons, who were quite strangers to my husband & our household ... all claiming such intimate knowledge of the lamented President that I have been frequently startled with their varied & inaccurate accounts." She goes on to express that, "It will be impossible for me ... to subject myself to the annoyance of public clamor." She asks that their correspondence be kept private. Letter marked private on envelope and top of first page, and addressed to Worthington in Hartford, Connecticut.
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