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Notes The following abbreviations for frequently cited sources are llsed in the notes: ALMSS Basler, CWL DLC IHi JGN MSS LM OMHMSS Abraham Lincoln Papers Roy P. Basler et al., eds., The Collected Works ofAbraham Lincoln, 8 vols. plus index (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rntgers University Press, 1953~55) Library of Congress Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield John G. Nicolay Papers Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana Ozias M. Hatch Papers Introduction 1. Nicolay, 1898 speech to high school students, quoted in David McWilliams, "Personal Recollections ofMr. Lincoln," Northwestern Christian Advocate, n.d., reprinted in the St. Louis Globe Democrat, 12 Feb. 1901. 2. Therena Bates of Pittsfield, Illinois, was born in ?ittsfield,Massachusetts, on 31 May 1836, wed Nicolay on 15 June 1865, and died 011 25 November 1885. Her brother, Dorns E. Bates, was a blacksmith who served as a captain in the Union army, lost an arm at Vicksburg, and became the model for Tillman Joy in John , Hay's poem "Banty Tim." 3. Henry B. Vall Hoesen, "Lincoln and John Hay," Books at Brown 18 (1960): 155-56. 4. On Lincoln as a £'1ther figure to Nicolay and Hay, see Michael Burlingame, The Inner World ofAbraha1n Lincoln (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 77-79. 5. Helen Nicolay to Richard Watson Gilder, Washington, 19 Jan. 1908, Century Collection, New York Public Library. Gilder feared correctly that "the caution he must have exercised may have taken the snap out of the letters." Gilder to Helen Nicolay, New York, 21 Jan. 1908, JGN MSS, DLC. [ 181 ] Notes to Pages xi-xiii 6. Notes by Helen Nicolay, enclosed in Helen Nicolay to James G. Randall, Washington, 7 Mar. 1931, James G. Randall Papers, DLC. 7. Nicolay to Therena Bates, Springfield, 9 Dec. 1860, JGN MSS, DLC. 8. Helen Nicolay, Lincoln)s Secntary: A Biography ofJohn G. Nicolay (New York: Longmans, Green, 1949). 9. John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abt'aham Li1tcoln: A History, 10 vols. (New York: Century, 1890). 10. Charles M. Segal, ed., Convet'sations with Lincoln (New York: Putnam's, 1961). 11. Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher, comps. and eds., Recollected Words ofAbraham Lincoln (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996). 12. Roy P. Basler et a1., cds., The Collected Works ofAbraham Lincoln, 8 vols. plus index (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953-55). 13. Genealogical notes by Helen Nicolay, JGN MSS, DLC. He had three brothers -Frederick Lewis (?-1872), John Jacob (1819-89), and John-and one sister, Catherine (?-1867). Frederick Lewis had emigrated to the U.S. before the rest of the family. Much of the following account is based on H. Nicolay, Lincoln)s Secretary , 3-45, and a draft of that volume in the JGN MSS, LM. 14. Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 14 Mar. 1861; Pike County Republican (Pittsfield, Ill.), 31 Mar. 1943; H. Nicolay, Lincoln's Secretary, 5-6. 15. The merchant was Aaron Reno, whose daughter, Carrie Reno Brooks, told this story to Goyne S. Pennington. Pennington to the editor, Pittsfield, 7 June 1910, "Hon. John Nicolay," Pike County Democrat (Pittsfield, Ill.), 29 June 1910. 16. Autobiographical sketch by Nicolay, dictated to his daughter Helen, 14 Oct. 1897, scrapbook, box 1, JGN MSS, DLC; Goyne S. Pennington to the editor, Pittsfield, 7 June 1910, "Hon. John Nicolay," Pike County Democrat, 29 June 1910. 17. H. Nicolay, Lincoln's Secretary, 3-8; draft of Helen Nicolay'S biography of her father (hereafter referred to as "Helen Nicolay, draft"), typescript, 11-12, JGN MSS, LM; Thomas Hall Shastid, My Second Life (Ann Arbor, Mich.: George Wahr, 1944), 63; Pike County Republican) 31 Mar. 1943; Milo L. Pearson, article on Ozias M. Hatch, Pike County Republican, 6 Feb. 1957. Garbutt told the story of the abusive woman (who may have been the wife of the relative he lived with) to one R. Monroe Worthington. Pike County Republican, 8 Mar. 1905, quoted in the same newspaper, 10 June 1942. The story was "universally accepted" in Pittsfield. In the twentieth century, it was told by the descendants of Col. A. C. Matthews, Dr. Benjamin E. Norris, Joseph Heck, Capt. Watson Goodrich, and many others. See Jesse M. Thompson, "Lincoln-Douglas-Hay-Nicolay," Journal afthe Illinois State Historical Society 18 (1925): 734-35, and Shastid, My Second Life) 63. On many occasions, Shastid heard this story from Mrs. Garbutt, Nicolay's virtual foster mother. Curiously, Nicolay did not become a naturalized citizen of the United [ 182} [3.139.70.131] Project MUSE (2024-04-23 08...
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