marriage

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon Schuster, 1995).

Michael Burlirigame, The inner World c/Abraham Lincoln (Urbana: University of illinois Press, 1994), 268.

Justin Turner and Linda Leavitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln.’ Her L~f? and Letters (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1972), 293.

Douglas Wilson, Honor’s Voice: The Transformation ofAbraham Lincoln (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1998), 232.

Jean H. Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln:A Biography (New York: WW Norton, 1987), xiii.

Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews and Statements about Abraham Lincoln, Douglas Wilson and Rodney Davis, eds. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 604. Lincoln was clearly not as smitten by Rutledge as was his predecessor James Buchanan who when his fiancee died never married.

Herndon’s Informants, 444, 623.

Herndon’s Informants, 664.

Karen Lystra, Searching the Heart: Women, Men and Romantic Love in 19th Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 28, 31, 57, 60, 102, 157-159, 180-183; Peter Gay, The Tender Passion, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 5 1-60.

Katherine Helm, Mary Wife of Lincoln (New York: Harpers, 1928), 81.

Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography c/Benjamin Franklin (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 78-79.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (New York: HarperPerennial, 1988), 592.

Turner, Letters, 21.

E. Antonio Rotundo, American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (New York: Basic Books, 1993), 112.

Roy Basler, ed., Collected Works 0/Abraham Lincoln (New Brunswick, N.J.,: Rutgers University Press, 1953) 1: 78.

Ellen Rothman, Hands and Hearts: A History of Courtship in America (New York: Basic Books, 1984), 57.

Turner, Letters, 18; on breach of promise as an outmoded judicial procedure, Michael Grossberg, Governing the Hearth: Law and Family in 19th Century America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985), 35-38.

Baker, 90; Herndon’s Informants, 238, 623.

Sangamon Journal, September 9, 16. The letters are also printed in August 5, 24, 1842; Roy Basler, “The Authorship of the Rebecca Letters,” Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, 2 (June 1942), 80-90.

Andrew Cherlin, Public and Private Families (New York: McGraw Hill, 1999), 240-247; on MaryTodd and Abraham Lincoln courting inside, Herndon’s Informants, 443.

1.	David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon Schuster, 1995).

2.	Michael Burlirigame, The inner World c/Abraham Lincoln (Urbana: University of illinois Press, 1994), 268.

3.	Justin Turner and Linda Leavitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln.’ Her L~f? and Letters (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1972), 293.

4.	Douglas Wilson, Honor’s Voice: The Transformation ofAbraham Lincoln (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1998), 232.

5.	Jean H. Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln:A Biography (New York: WW Norton, 1987), xiii.

6.	Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews and Statements about Abraham Lincoln, Douglas Wilson and Rodney Davis, eds. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 604. Lincoln was clearly not as smitten by Rutledge as was his predecessor James Buchanan who when his fiancee died never married.

7.	Herndon’s Informants, 444, 623.

8.	Turner, 296.

9.	Herndon’s Informants, 664.

10.	Karen Lystra, Searching the Heart: Women, Men and Romantic Love in 19th Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 28, 31, 57, 60, 102, 157-159, 180-183; Peter Gay, The Tender Passion, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 5 1-60.

11.	Katherine Helm, Mary Wife of Lincoln (New York: Harpers, 1928), 81.

12.	Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography c/Benjamin Franklin (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 78-79.

13.	Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (New York: HarperPerennial, 1988), 592.

14.	Turner, Letters, 21.

15.	E. Antonio Rotundo, American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (New York: Basic Books, 1993), 112.

16.	Roy Basler, ed., Collected Works 0/Abraham Lincoln (New Brunswick, N.J.,: Rutgers University Press, 1953) 1: 78.

17.	Ellen Rothman, Hands and Hearts: A History of Courtship in America (New York: Basic Books, 1984), 57.

18.	Turner, Letters, 18; on breach of promise as an outmoded judicial procedure, Michael Grossberg, Governing the Hearth: Law and Family in 19th Century America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985), 35-38.

19.	Baker, 90; Herndon’s Informants, 238, 623.

20.	Sangamon Journal, September 9, 16. The letters are also printed in August 5, 24, 1842; Roy Basler, “The Authorship of the Rebecca Letters,” Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, 2 (June 1942), 80-90.

21.	Andrew Cherlin, Public and Private Families (New York: McGraw Hill, 1999), 240-247; on MaryTodd and Abraham Lincoln courting inside, Herndon’s Informants, 443.

22.	John Gillis, A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values, (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1996), 135; also Stephanie Coontz, The Social Origins of Private Lift: The Social History c/American Families, 1600-1900 (New York, Verso, 1988), 116; Rothman, 60-63; John Modell, “Dating Becomes the Way of American Youth” in David Levine, et. al., Essays on the Family and Historical Change (Arlington, 1983), 91-95.

John Gillis, A World of Their Own Making: Myth, Ritual, and the Quest for Family Values, (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1996), 135; also Stephanie Coontz, The Social Origins of Private Lift: The Social History c/American Families, 1600-1900 (New York, Verso, 1988), 116; Rothman, 60-63; John Modell, “Dating Becomes the Way of American Youth” in David Levine, et. al., Essays on the Family and Historical Change (Arlington, 1983), 91-95.