Tom got it right. It was Albert J. Beveridge. Somewhere in my papers I have a memorandum which Tarbell wrote to herself in which she is much harder on Beveridge, but I can't find it. As for Beveridge, he decried what he called the "Tarbellization" of Lincoln studies.
No prize for this one, although when I no longer need it, my coughing pillow can be lent to whomever else might need it.
Best
Rob
Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.