Did Lincoln Regret Marrying Mary?

[Liz Rosenthal]

(10-13-2013 04:47 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Did Robert ever comment on his parents marriage? And - what was his own marriage like?

I doubt it. Robert Lincoln did not believe that anything concerning his private family life was anyone else's business. The fact that he held on to his father's papers throughout his life, only permitting a limited circle of people to examine them, and then only arranged for their public release 25 years after his death, shows how close to the breast Robert kept those documents.

But I wouldn't doubt that Robert also destroyed a lot of documents - anything he thought might cast an unfavorable light on his family, or simply attract an unbecoming level of interest in the Lincolns. It's possible that many questions we have about AL and Mary might have been answered if not for Robert's actions.