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FOOTNOTES TO SECTION C

1. James T. Hickey, "The Lincolns Globe Tavern, A Study in Tracing the History of a Nineteenth Century Building," The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, LVI, no. 4, Winter, 1963, p. 638.

2. Harry E. Pratt, The Personal Finances of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, Illinois: The Abraham Lincoln Association 1943), p. 84.

3. Ibid., p. viii.

4. John Paul Frank, Lincoln As A Lawyer (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961), p. 40.

5. Pratt, Finances p. 82.

6. See Ruth Painter Randall, Lincoln's Sons (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Co., 1955).

7. See William E. Baringer, Lincoln Day By Day A Chronology 1809-1865 (Washington: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960) for a record of the Lincolns' parties. Two examples of large parties given after 1856 may be found on pp. 189 and 242.

8. Edwin C. Bearss, Historic Structure Report, Lincoln Home National Historic Site Illinois (Denver Service Center, National Park Service, July, 1973), pp. 17-18, 94.

9. Gibson William Harris, "My Recollections of Abraham Lincoln," Woman's Home Companion, November, 1903, p. 11.

10. According to James Hickey, Curator of the Lincoln Collection, Illinois State Historical Library, Harriet Chapman came to the Lincoln home to work as a hired girl.

11. Katherine Helm, Mary Wife of Lincoln (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 19), pp. 106-112.

12. Bearss, Historic Structure Report, p. 108, and A.L. Bowen, "A. Lincoln: His House" in Lincoln Centennial Association Papers (Springfield, Illinois: Lincoln Centennial Association, 1925), pp. 44-45.

13. Mary Lincoln to Hannah Shearer, October 2, 1854, quoted in Justin G. Turner and Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln Her Life and Letters (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), p. 59.

14. Chapman to Herndon, December 10, 1866, Herndon-Weik Collection.

15. Mrs. John 1. Stuart to Elizabeth Stuart, April 3, 1856 quoted in Bearss, Historic Structure Report, p. 17.

16. Bearss, Historic Structure Report, p. 108.

17. A.L. Bowen, "A. Lincoln: His House." Lincoln Centennial Association Papers (Springfield, Illinois: Privately Printed, 1925), p. 44.

18. Pratt, Finances, p. 92.

19. John Hay to William Herndon, September 5, 1866, quoted in The Hidden Lincoln, p. 307.

20. Copy of Lincoln Home drawings obtained from Ferry and Henderson, Architects, Inc., 1320 South State Street, Springfield, Illinois, 62704.

21. Bowen, "A. Lincoln," p. 45.

22. New York Commercial Advertiser, May 25; the New York Evening Post, May 26; and the New York Sun, May 30, June 9, 1860 quoted in Bearss, Historic Structure Report, p. 23.

23. New York Evening Post, May 23, 1860 quoted in Kenneth Scott, "Lincoln's Home in 1860," The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 46, no. 1, (1953), pp. 78.

24. New York Daily Tribune, May 25, 1860, quoted in Bearss, Historic Structure Report, p. 24; and Gustave Koerner, Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896 (Cedar Rapids: The Torch Press, 1909), Vol. II, pp. 93-95.

25. Edwin S. Walker quoted in Scott, "Lincoln's Home in 1860," p. 12.

26. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 9, 1861.

27. Ruth Painter Randall, I, Mary (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1959), p. 111.

28. Abraham Lincoln to Dr. A. G. Henry, July 4, 1860 quoted in Paul Angle, ed., The Lincoln Reader (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1947), pp. 283-284.

29. Randall, Lincoln's Sons, p. 51.

30. See Ruth Painter Randall's Lincoln's Sons.

31. Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 92.

32. Katherine Helm, Mary Wife of Lincoln (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1928), p. 110.

33. Harriet Chapman to William Herndon, November 21, 1866, Herndon-Weik Collection.

34. William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Abraham Lincoln The True Story of a Great Life Vol. II (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896), p. 1; and Chapman to Herndon, November 21, 1866, Herndon-Weik Collection.

35. Chapman to Herndon, November 21, 1866, Herndon-Weik Collection.

36. Katherine Helm, Mary, p. 108.

37. Ibid., p. 108.

38. Emilie Todd Helm, "Mary Todd Lincoln: Reminiscences and Letters of the Wife of President Lincoln," McClure's Magazine, September 1898, p. 479.

39. Mary Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln, May 1848 quoted in Paul Angle, ed., The Lincoln Reader, pp. 147-148.

40. See reference to seamstresses in Mary Lincoln to Hannah Shearer, April 24, 1859 (incomplete) quoted in Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 55.

41. Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 155.

42. Ibid., p. 149.

43. Randall, Lincoln's Sons, p. 44.

44. Carl Sandburg and Paul M. Angle, Mary Lincoln Wife and Widow (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939), p. 67; and Abraham Lincoln to Mary Lincoln, April 16, 1848, quoted in Paul Angle, ed., The Lincoln Reader, pp. 146-147. Lincoln wrote: "And you are entirely free from headache? That is good--considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted ...."

45. Abraham Lincoln to Mary Lincoln, July 2, 1848, quoted in Angle, Lincoln Reader, pp. 150-151.

46. Population Schedules of the Seventh Census of the United States 1850, Illinois Saline and Sangamon Counties National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D. C.

47. Wayne C. Temple, "Lincoln in the Census," Lincoln Herald, vol. 68, no. 3 (1966) p. 138.

48. Mary Lincoln to Emilie Todd Helm, November 23, 1856 quoted in Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 46.

49. Herndon, Abraham Lincoln, vol. II, p. 137.

50. Mary Lincoln to Hannah Shearer, October 2, 1859, quoted in Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 59.

51. Population Schedules of the Eighth Census of the United States, 1860, Illinois Sangamon County, NARS.

52. Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 61.

53. Katherine Helm, Mary recollections of Emilie Todd, p. 112.

54. Gustave Koerner, Memoirs, II, pp. 93-94.

55. Mary Lincoln to Mary Brayman, June 17, 1861, quoted in Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 90.

56. Caroline Owsley Brown, "Springfield Society Before the Civil War," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, vol. 15, nos. 1-2, p. 479.

57. Isaac Arnold's Addresses to the Illinois State Bar Association (1881) quoted in Pratt, Finances, p. 94.

58. Ibid., p. 94.

59. Harris, "Recollections of Lincoln," p. 11.

60. Ada Bailhache to Mrs. William Bailhache, November 20, 1860, quoted in Pratt, "Concerning Mr. Lincoln," p. 32.

61. Mary Lincoln to Mary Brayman, "Saturday afternoon," 1857, quoted in Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 51.

62. Mary Lincoln to Hannah Shearer, April 24, 1859, quoted in Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 55.

63. Pratt, Finances, p. 92.

64. Brown, "Springfield Society," pp. 494-495.

65. Daily Illinois State Journal, January 7, 1857, W. W. Watson advertisement, p. 4.

66. Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 153.

67. Mary Lincoln to Hannah Shearer, January 1, 1860, quoted in Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 61.

68. Brown, "Springfield Society," p. 44.

69. Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 176.

70. Mary Lincoln to Emilie Helm, February 16, 1857, quoted in Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 48.

71. Brown, "Springfield Society," p. 483.

72. Basler, Collected Works, p. 388.

73. Henry G. Little, quoted in Randall, Lincoln's Sons, p. 60.

74. Ibid., p. 60.

75. Mary Lincoln to Hannah Shearer, June 26, 1854, quoted in Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 55.

76. John T. Stuart to his daughter, June 2, 1856, quoted in Pratt, Finances, p. 97.

77. John T. Stuart to his daughter, January 13, 1856, quoted Ibid., p. 97.

78. Randall, Lincoln's Sons, p. 59.

79. Illinois State Journal, July 3, 1858, quoted in Randall, Lincoln's Sons, p. 59.

80. Mary Lincoln to Hannah Shearer, January 1, 1860, quoted in Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 61.

81. St Louis Missouri Democrat, February, 1861, quoted in Pratt, Personal Finances, p. 98.



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