Mary's Reputation

[Gene C]

In the book "The Hour of Peril", Daniel Stashower says,
"Privately, (Henry) Villard was glad to be rid of her, however briefly. In a memoir written many years later (after Lincoln's inaugural trip to Washington), he lambasted Mrs. Lincoln as greedy and utterly lacking in propriety, and accused her of accepting gifts for 'the use of her influence with her husband' in securing political appointments. Villard claimed that Mrs. Lincoln nearly delayed her husband's departure that morning, throwing herself on the floor 'in a sort of hysterical fit' until he yielded to yet another of her demands." (p135)

Has any one heard of this incident? The Memoirs of Henry Villard are in Internet Archives, but I could not locate the second part of Stashower's quote from Villard's Memoirs.