Things Lincoln never said

[RJNorton]

Such is the case, for instance, with his supposed greeting of Harriet Beecher Stowe as ‘the little woman who made this great war.’” Unfortunately, this quote is in the book by Emanuel Hertz, "Lincoln Talks, a Biography in Anecdote," without qualification as to authenticity.

Other than Stowe family lore I have never been able to find a source for this. Dr. Gerald J. Prokopowicz writes, "A popular story has Lincoln greeting the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin with 'So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!' but there's no written evidence that he said this. All that Stowe wrote to her husband was that she 'had a real funny interview with the President,' promising to tell him the details later."