08-14-2018, 12:24 PM
(08-14-2018 10:46 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: [ -> ]one of the few hints she was likely aware of his (educational) deficiencies
I agree with you, Eva.
(08-14-2018 10:46 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: [ -> ]one of the few hints she was likely aware of his (educational) deficiencies
(08-14-2018 01:58 PM)Gene C Wrote: [ -> ]I always interpreted that to be his mischievous behavior
(08-14-2018 02:03 PM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote: [ -> ]Mary wrote that long after the assassination. My understanding was that the assassination had matured Tad and "cured" from pranks. I also seem to recall Robert in those times still stated worries about Tad's school deficiencies, so I thought the statement might rather have referred to this than to "behavior".(08-14-2018 01:58 PM)Gene C Wrote: [ -> ]I always interpreted that to be his mischievous behavior
Me too. I don't see the statement as expressing any worry about Tad. That's not to say Mary didn't worry, but the "troublesome" strikes me as something any mother would say about a high-spirited boy given to pranks.
(08-20-2015 07:53 PM)L Verge Wrote: [ -> ](08-20-2015 07:35 PM)Anita Wrote: [ -> ]Yes indeed Laurie! Good detective work. Your link is fascinating. I didn't see that one.
“Pendel looked very much like Lincoln and this fact must have given the Chief Executive much amusement, especially when the doorkeeper was mistaken for the President,” wrote Lincoln scholar Louis A Warren. “Governor Andrews of Massachusetts wrote a letter to Mrs. Lincoln asking her to urge William Morris Hunt, the famous Boston artist, to make a portrait of the President. Mrs. Lincoln later sent Pendel on to Boston where he posed for the artist in Lincoln’s clothes, as the portrait was to be one of full length.”2
http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/insi...ubjectID=2
Portrait of Abraham Lincoln by the Boston artist William Morris Hunt, oil on panel. The full-length portrait was a study for a later painting of Lincoln by Hunt which was destroyed in the Boston fire of 1872. The portrait was painted soon after the assassination of Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. The work portrays Lincoln as a sad-faced martyr to the Union cause, which was supported by William Morris Hunt and his brothers.
Date 1865 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:..._Hunt.jpeg
Here's Thomas Frances Pendel. He does resemble Lincoln.
http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/39320
Thanks for posting the photo of Pendel because I was doubting the reference in the source that I read to Pendel being the "Black Doorkeeper at the White House." Pendel is mentioned in so many references to the assassination, but I never remember any noting of his race.
(10-27-2022 06:55 PM)RJNorton Wrote: [ -> ]I was surprised to read what an author wrote in a review of Michael Burlingame's An American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd.
"Burlingame is correct in concluding that more objective biographical work needs to be undertaken about Mary Lincoln, and his conclusions as laid out in this book will stand the test of time. Like it or not (and Mary's defenders certainly will not), Burlingame has made a powerful case against Mary Lincoln and shown that her part in Abraham Lincoln's story was likely more damaging than it was beneficial."
What is the name of the author who wrote this?