Who is this lady?

[RJNorton]

Grace Coolidge or Bess Truman?

[Steve]

Lou Hoover?

[L Verge]

Florence Harding?

[Susan Higginbotham]

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

[Eva Elisabeth]

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?)

[Steve]

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.

[Susan Higginbotham]

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.

[RJNorton]

No idea - wild guess - Ida Tarbell?

[Susan Higginbotham]

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

[Gene C]

Julia Taft Bayne ?

[Susan Higginbotham]

No, not her.

[Rob Wick]

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

Best
Rob

[Steve]

Mary Harlan Lincoln?

[Susan Higginbotham]

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

[L Verge]

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.