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David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon Schuster,
1995).
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Michael Burlirigame, The inner World c/Abraham Lincoln (Urbana:
University of illinois Press, 1994), 268.
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Justin Turner and Linda Leavitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln.’
Her L~f? and Letters (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1972), 293.
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Douglas Wilson, Honor’s Voice: The Transformation ofAbraham
Lincoln (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1998), 232.
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Jean H. Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln:A Biography (New York:
WW Norton, 1987), xiii.
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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.
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Herndon’s Informants, 444, 623.
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Turner, 296.
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Herndon’s Informants, 664.
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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.
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Katherine Helm, Mary Wife of Lincoln (New York: Harpers,
1928), 81.
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Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography c/Benjamin Franklin
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 78-79.
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Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (New York: HarperPerennial,
1988), 592.
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Turner, Letters, 21.
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E. Antonio Rotundo, American Manhood: Transformations in
Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (New York: Basic Books,
1993), 112.
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Roy Basler, ed., Collected Works 0/Abraham Lincoln (New
Brunswick, N.J.,: Rutgers University Press, 1953) 1: 78.
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Ellen Rothman, Hands and Hearts: A History of Courtship
in America (New York: Basic Books, 1984), 57.
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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.
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Baker, 90; Herndon’s Informants, 238, 623.
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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.
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Andrew Cherlin, Public and Private Families (New York: McGraw
Hill, 1999), 240-247; on MaryTodd and Abraham Lincoln courting inside,
Herndon’s Informants, 443.
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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.
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