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[kerry]

(04-04-2017 04:32 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  I continue to agree with Rob.

Kerry - re.: In her letters she several times mentions she wrote a reply to Herndon and asks someone like Smith to edit it and publish it" - I would like to read those letters. Could you please post the dates of writing so that I could look for them in the Turners' book? Or a link if they are online somewhere? Thanks.

As for correspondence between her and Herndon off the top of my head I can only think of this one which to me gives the impression of being the first and (with regard to the dispute Herndon caused soon afterwards) last one.
http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussio...6#pid35353

(And IMO it shows writing on her husband's politics was the least on her mind.)

I will check for the dates tomorrow. There is only one letter to Herndon - if what Weik says is true, these letters went unpublished. There is a letter where she asks someone to edit and publish a statement with regard to the Mather lot/burial controversy that sticks out the most to me. I think that's the only one in which she wrote out a full statement that she asked to have printed unedited, but that is not a Herndon controversy - I will have to go back and look. There are also letters to John Todd Stuart in 1874 where she directs him what to say in response to the latest allegations from Herndon, regarding Lincoln's religion.

Also, I was looking today and there is a letter in 1873 to Isaac Arnold and it mentions a Mr. Reid who needs to send her papers from Scotland, She mentions that he may have sent her papers that were lost sixteen months ago in her great agony over Tad. The annotations say she must have meant James A. Reed and misspelled the name, but this could be a reference to the William Reid writings.