W. A. Evans: "Mrs. Abraham Lincoln"

[Gene C]

This is a very interesting book. Available on line at
https://archive.org/details/mrsabrahamlincol006929mbp
or from Amazon in several different editions/publisher. If you purchase the book get one printed from a different publisher than Nabu Press.

I found the following a good summation of the information in this book regarding Mrs. Lincoln's behavioral and personality problems she exhibited.

A quote from William Stoddard, one of President Lincoln's private secretary's
"At first it was not easy to understand why a lady could one day be so kindly, considerate, so generous, so thoughtful, and so hopeful could upon another day appear so unreasonable, so irritable, so despondent, even so niggardly, and so prone to see the wrong side of men, women and events. It is easier to understand it all and to deal with it after a few words with an eminent medical practitioner."

'This can only mean that some time prior to 1864, a physician recognized Mrs. Lincoln's trouble and told Stoddard what it was, and that thereafter he was able to recognize the limits of her responsibility. Could others have known as much as Stoddard did, history would have been kinder to Mary Lincoln.'