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- The madness of Mary Lincoln /
- Authors:
- Emerson, Jason,
- Item ID:
- MQ25426
- Publisher:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2007.
- ISBN:
- 9780809327713 (alk. paper) :; 0809327716 (alk. paper)
- Call Number:
- E457.25.L55 E46 2007 1
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Topic:
- Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
- Mental illness -- United States -- Case studies.
- Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 -- Mental health.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Family.
- Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-250) and index.; Much like an April day -- A most painful time of anxiety -- No right to remain upon earth -- Of unsound mind -- Mrs. Lincoln admitted today -- It does not appear that God is good -- No more insane than I am -- A deeply wronged woman -- Resignation will never come -- To be destroyed immediately -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 : Unpublished Mary Todd Lincoln letters -- Appendix 2 : Legal documents pertaining to the sale and destruction of the Mary Lincoln insanity letters -- Appendix 3 : The psychiatric illness of Mary Lincoln / James S. Brust, M.D.
- OCLC Number:
- ocm81252678
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Available for Viewing:
- By appointment only
- Category:
- Books & Pamphlets
