Grace Coolidge or Bess Truman?

Lou Hoover?

Florence Harding?

No, none of those. This lady was not a First Lady, but she knew one.

Has she been mentioned on the forum? A US lady? (Or some UK royal?) Is the quote of the first half of the 20th century? (Is it about baseball?)

(10-27-2019 08:21 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Has she been mentioned on the forum? A US lady? (Or some UK royal?) Is the quote of the first half of the 20th century? (Is it about baseball?)

Eva, the World Series is the championship of the highest-level professional league which covers U.S. and Canada baseball (called the "major leagues"). As I'm writing this, game 5 of the 2019 World Series is being played right now. So the mystery woman of the quote is likely to be an American.

My next guess will be Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

No, not Alice. The woman has been mentioned on this forum. Second hint: the person who wrote the account of visiting the lady was the offspring of a Lincoln biographer.

No idea - wild guess - Ida Tarbell?

Nope. Third hint: our lady baseball fan knew Lincoln.

Julia Taft Bayne ?

No, not her.

I'm not sure of the woman, but is the person she told it to Bruce Barton?

Best
Rob

Mary Harlan Lincoln?

Not Bruce Barton for the historian's offspring, and not Mary Harlan Lincoln for the lady. But Mary Harlan Lincoln is getting close.

Let's try either of Robert and Mary Lincoln's daughters -- Jesse or Mamie (with emphasis on Mamie)? No idea about the other part of the question, however.