Mary's Charlatans by Memoirs of Henry Villard

[RJNorton]

Thanks for sharing, Laurie. What pride you must have in your daughter!

I have several sources that indicate most of Mary Lincoln's friends abandoned her after her husband was no longer president; the one group that did not abandon her was her spiritualistic friends. After the assassination Mary was visited in the White House by several spiritualists. They attempted to console the grieving widow.