Robert Lincoln and the shooting of President McKinley

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Bill, in a footnote on p. 541, Jason Emerson writes, "One of Robert's former secretaries, Andrew P. Federline, supposedly said his employer had 'fits of depression and melancholy' similar to his father, and during these periods sought refuge in his observatory. Federline claimed that Mrs. Lincoln feared her husband would commit suicide and 'always' asked the secretary to stay with him."

Source: Margaret A. Flint to Ruth Painter Randall, Springfield, Illinois, November 12, 1955, folder "Robert Lincoln" box 72, Randall Family Papers.

Is this letter online? I do not know. Maybe Rob will.