Why didn't Mary visit the Holy Land?

[Jim Garrett]

I think it completely understandable for MTL to have remained in mourning for the rest of her life. For all intents and purposes, her life was over on April 14th. She was so completely identified with AL. She would have been nothing, if not for being the widow of the great emancipator. I believe when she met "incognito" with Elizabeth Keckley in New York City, she even had the veil.