Mary Lincoln and Suicide

[RJNorton]

Thanks, Kees. In my own mind I had always counted the goings-on right after the trial as one overall attempt; it looks like the Smithsonian (and others) count it as two separate attempts.

Here is a little more from Dr. Evans' book on the topic of Mary Lincoln and suicide:

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"Elizabeth Keckley wrote that Mrs. Lincoln once discussed suicide with her, about 1863. In January 1867 she wrote Mrs. Keckley that she was tempted to commit suicide. The danger that Mrs. Lincoln would take her own life was one possibility that was talked of at the meeting of physicians and friends held on the Saturday before May 19, 1875."