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[STS Lincolnite]

(01-26-2015 05:57 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Kees, the source is Ida Tarbell: "The Life of Abraham Lincoln", vol. II, pp.231-232.

Abraham Lincoln, when, while at City Point in 1865, he drove one day with Mary along the banks of the James River and they passed a country graveyard which Mary described as a "retired place...shaded by trees...so attractive and quiet that we stopped the carriage and walked through it", he said: "Mary, you are younger than I, you will survive me. When I'm gone, lay my remains in some quiet place like this."

I know I have read this before. Was this orginally from a letter that Mary wrote? What is the source that Tarbell uses?