Research Catalog

Title

• The courtship of Mr. Lincoln.

Author

Randall, Ruth Painter

Publication

Boston, Little, Brown [c1957]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) DLC
• Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM

Description

xiv, 219 p. illus.; 21 cm.

Summary

A reconstruction, largely from contemporary letters, of the three-year period of Abraham Lincoln's courtship of Mary Todd.

Alternative Title

Courtship of Mister Lincoln

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Courtship
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882
• Presidents > United States > 19th century

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Molly shocks Springfield -- The coterie and "a mighty rough man" -- "I made a fool of myself" --"This thing of living in Springfield" -- "My beaux have always been hard bargains" -- Various happenings of a romantic nature -- "Crime of matrimony" -- He was "Mr. Lincoln" to her -- Without her "No variety" -- "That fatal first of Jany." -- Mr. Lincoln writes a murder mystery -- Tangled emotions of two gentlemen -- "That still kills my soul" -- "Stand still and see" -- Secret meetings -- Challenged to a duel -- Bloody island -- "Matter of profound wonder."

LCCN

^^^57005515^/L

OCLC

560804

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library