Lincoln's Mothers

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It seems like it would, but the author writes that Sarah defended him. Dorothy Clarke Wilson says that Sarah felt Abraham was needed at home with a sick wife and a new baby, and that he was right to stay where he was needed the most.

Reminiscent of Charles Darwin and several of his famous missing appearances. And there is a camp who lionize both Darwin and Lincoln, as they were born the same year. When Darwin's paper giving him scientific priority for The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection was being presented before some obscure London science group (Linnaean),
Charles Darwin never showed up but had his friends introduce copies of some letter he claimed to have sent to Alfred Wallace. Wallace they had presumed was dying of fever in the far pacific islands. But Darwin did have children gravely ill at that time. I think that child later died, too. Alfred Wallace recovered and lived on towards 90 years.