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

[Eva Elisabeth]

Roger, considering how closed Robert was about giving info about his family, and even burned a lot of his parents' letters, I, too, find this statement strange:
"...he [Robert]spoke very freely to me of homely incidents and when I wanted some material on Lincoln in the course of my studies he told me many things" - this doesn't match my image of Robert.