Mrs. Lincoln’s Salon: Her Form Inclines To Stoutness

[Eva Elisabeth]

She used to purchase incredible amounts of sugar in Springfield - I wonder about the condition of her teeth! Also because of the respective remark in a letter to her in his Congress days I wonder if Abraham Lincoln perhaps preferred that kind of shape. On April16,1848, he wrote his wife: "I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again. Tell Louisa I want her to watch you a little for me. Get weighed, and write me how much you weigh."
In France, Mary lost a lot of weight.