Mary's friends

[kerry]

Mary's possible "missing memoir" that I mentioned earlier in the thread is the subject of an article I wrote in the Abraham Lincoln Association newsletter (not yet available online). But I published it with an update here: https://medium.com/@kerry62189/where-is-...1806faa76b

I am quite convinced she produced a draft biography. William Reid had letters used in it as late as 1914, and it sounds like his kids may have had them until the 1930s. Whether the descendants still have them is the issue. Tad's death seems to have ended work on the biography, but it's unclear who ended up with it. It seems most likely destroyed. There's a slim possibility it is somehow in the Isaac Arnold papers or with Smith's descendants.