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93 Notes 1. Young Lincoln, 1809–42 1. Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln interview, Wilson and Davis, Herndon’s Informants, 108; Austin Gollaher’s comments in Charles Friend to Herndon , March 19, 1866, ibid., 235. 2. Lincoln, “Autobiography Written for John L. Scripps,” ca. June 1860, Collected Works, 4:62; Dennis F. Hanks interview, Wilson and Davis, Herndon’s Informants, 42; Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln, 1:24; White, A. Lincoln, 28–29; Shutes, Lincoln and the Doctors, 6; Garrison, Lincoln No One Knows, 17–18. 3. Prokopowicz, Did Lincoln Own Slaves?, 17; Boritt and Borit, “Lincoln and the Marfan Syndrome,” 220; Fishman and Da Silveira, “Lincoln’s Craniofacial Microsomia,” 1128; Sotos, Physical Lincoln, 91–93. 4. Lincoln, “Autobiography Written for John L. Scripps,” ca. June 1860, Collected Works, 4:62–63; Shutes, Lincoln and the Doctors, 17–18. 5. White, A. Lincoln, 100; Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, 267–68; Burlingame , Abraham Lincoln, 1:98–101; Wilson, Honor’s Voice, 114–26; Simon, “Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge”; B. Schwartz, “Ann Rutledge in American Memory”; Gannett, “‘Overwhelming Evidence.’” 6. The accounts by all the people who mentioned Lincoln and Rutledge can be found in Wilson and Davis, Herndon’s Informants: William G. Greene interview, 21; Benjamin F. Irwin to Herndon, August 27, 1866, 325; Mentor Graham to Herndon, May 29, 1865, 11; Isaac Cogdal interview, 441; Henry McHenry to Herndon, January 8, 1866, 155–56; Caleb Carman to Herndon, November 30, 1866, 430; Thompson Ware McNeely to Herndon, November 12 and 28, 1866, 397 and 424; John Hill to Herndon, June 6, 1865, 23; James Short to Herndon, July 7, 1865, 73; Hardin Bale interview, 13; Robert B. Rutledge to Herndon, ca. November 1, 1866, 383; clipping from Menard Axis, February 15, 1862, 25; and Elizabeth Abell to Herndon, February 15, 1867, 557. 7. Shenk, Lincoln’s Melancholy, 18–20. From Wilson and Davis, Herndon ’s Informants: William G. Greene interview, 21; Elizabeth Abell to Herndon, February 15, 1867, 557; John Hill to Herndon, June 6, 1865, 23; Mentor Graham to Herndon, May 29, 1865, 11; Henry McHenry interview and McHenry to Herndon, January 8, 1866, 14 and 155–56; Isaac Cogdal interview, 441. 8. Shutes, Lincoln and the Doctors, 17–18. 9. Lincoln to John T. Stuart, January 23, 1841, Collected Works, 1:229. 10. Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed, March 27, 1842, ibid., 282; Elizabeth Todd 94 | notes to pages 5–9 Edwards interview, Wilson and Davis, Herndon’s Informants, 443–44; Helm, True Story of Mary, 86–90; Burlingame, Oral History, xvi; Clinton , Mrs. Lincoln, 50–51; Donald, “We Are Lincoln Men,” 44; Shenk, Lincoln’s Melancholy, 44–52, 55–56; White, A. Lincoln, 110–12. 11. Joshua F. Speed interview and Speed to Herndon, September 17, 1866, Wilson and Davis, Herndon’s Informants, 495 and 342; Orville H. Browning interview, Burlingame, Oral History, 1–2; Shutes, Lincoln and the Doctors, 26–28; Shenk, Lincoln’s Melancholy, 51–52, 57–59, 62–63; James C. Conkling to Mercy Ann Levering, January 24, 1841, Conkling Family Papers, box 1, folder 1, ALPL. 12. Sotos, Physical Lincoln, 228; Chambrun, “Personal Recollections,” 32; Robert L. Wilson to Herndon, February 10, 1866, Wilson and Davis, Herndon’s Informants, 205; Ward Hill Lamon interview, Wilson and Davis, Herndon’s Informants, 466; Orville H. Browning interview, Burlingame , Oral History, 1–3; Shutes, Lincoln and the Doctors, 33. 13. Shutes, Lincoln and the Doctors, 33–35, 40, 42; Evans, Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, 329–31; Shenk, Lincoln’s Melancholy, 13–15. 14. Sotos, Physical Lincoln, 216–19. For more information, see the discussion of Sotos and MEN2B in chapter 4. 15. Shenk, Lincoln’s Melancholy, 22, 98–99, 108–9, 156; Goodwin, Team of Rivals, xvii, 103. 16. Shenk, Lincoln’s Melancholy, 113, 156; Goodwin, Team of Rivals, xvii, 49, 103; Orville H. Browning interview, Burlingame, Oral History, 3. 17. Lincoln to Mary Owens, December 13, 1838, Collected Works, 1:54–55; Lincoln to Mary Speed, ibid., 1:260–61; Sotos, Physical Lincoln, 57. 18. Prokopowicz, Did Lincoln Own Slaves?, 46; Donald, “We Are Lincoln Men,” 98–99. 19. Donald, “We Are Lincoln Men,” 98; Wilson, Honor’s Voice, 127–29, 182–84; Sotos, Physical Lincoln, 104. 20. For example, Simon, “Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge.” Donald, “We Are Lincoln Men,” 98–99; Shenk, Lincoln’s Melancholy, 60. 21. Donald, “We Are Lincoln Men,” 99; Hirschhorn, Feldman, and Greaves, “Abraham Lincoln’s Blue Pills,” 323. 22. Lincoln to Samuel D. Marshall, November 11, 1842, Collected Works, 1:305...
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