Extra Credit Questions

[Eva Elisabeth]

So far I have drawn a blank on the presidential widow. I would exclude Mary Lincoln because her husband wouldn't have had to borrow the book if it was his, no?

"According to the Library of Congress’s circulation records, President Abraham Lincoln borrowed The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin on June 16, 1862, and returned it 43 days later, on July 29. The dates correspond exactly to the time during which he drafted the Emancipation Proclamation."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/s...180969094/

In any case he borrowed the book after meeting the author, which is supposed to have been" on or around Thanksgiving Day"...
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/262986...w=fulltext
...which in 1862 was on April 13.
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?ye...&country=1

The first link links to a very interesting site on the real Uncle Tom who "never received a dime from Stowe’s publishers". One wonders how much Ms. Stowe received (it was quite the best-seller) and whether she was aware. (Seems always the same with those acting the "saint preachers". We proverbly say "preaching water and drinking wine". )