"Our One Common Country" author talk in Stratford, CT

[RJNorton]

Hi David. Unfortunately I don't have the text of the entire letter. However, if a person would like to sign up for a free trial, I think it can be read here. Another source is here.

In the Mary Lincoln Enigma Professor Brian Dirck writes, "Whereas before the war she carried a mixture of contradictory sentiments and ideas about slavery, the war served to quietly harden her into a staunch advocate of emancipation. Far from acting the part of a Southern apologist, Mary wanted her husband to adopt some sort of emancipation policy; she 'urged him to Emancipation, as a matter of right, long before he saw it as a matter of necessity,' remarked Jane Grey Swisshelm, an abolitionist who became acquainted with Mary during the war." (from p. 49)