Miss Todd left at the altar

[Rob Wick]

Bill,
I think I need to clarify a point. I'm not sure it was Herndon who was lying. He obviously didn't make it up out of whole cloth, since there were two separate people who heard Elizabeth Edwards say that a wedding took place (Herndon, Weik). And as I said, the story doesn't hurt Mary like the Ann Rutledge story does, because she was the innocent victim.

Roger, just playing devil's' advocate here, but is it possible that there could have been, for want of a better term, a "conspiracy of silence" between many guests to not say anything, especially in the light of Herndon's Springfield lecture? To say that Lincoln left MTL at the altar would give credence to Herndon's claims about Ann being the only true love he had. And I wonder, did the story ever get out before Lamon put it in his book about Lincoln in 1872? If not, then isn't such a conspiracy possible?

Best
Rob