"Our One Common Country" author talk in Stratford, CT

[Gene C]

Can't speak for David, but I don't agree with you on this Eva.
Regardless, I agree with you and Toia, Fido and I are also of the opinion that it is very questionable whether this discussion quoted below between Abraham and Mary ever took place

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Lincoln scholar, Professor Allen C. Guelzo, wrote in his book, “Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America,” Simon & Schuster, Copyright 2004, 2005 (paperback edition), pages 204 -05:

Mary Lincoln (who, according to her son Robert “was very much opposed to the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation”) appeared in the doorway, “inquiring in her quick sharp way, ‘Well, what do you intend doing?’” Lincoln only looked upwards, “as to heaven,” and replied, “I am a man under orders, I cannot do otherwise.”
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Maybe Jason Emerson, Donna McCreary or someone who has made an in depth study on Mary or Robert could weigh in on this