Did Vinnie Ream visit the White House daily for 5 months?

[RJNorton]

(02-18-2017 10:41 PM)Linda Anderson Wrote:  (However, there is no evidence other than her word that suggests Lincoln and Ream ever met.)"

Linda, thank you. That sentence gets at the heart of why I began this thread; over the years I have grown increasingly skeptical of certain Lincoln-related claims (Coggeshall, for example). Ream's claim is one of them. I do not know if there can ever be a definitive answer either way. I checked The Collected Works to see if Lincoln ever mentioned Ream in a letter, etc. I drew a blank. Maybe in the future a new discovery will be made - a Lincoln letter to a friend in which he writes something like, "As I sit here pondering the future, there is a pretty young girl in my office making a bust of me." I highly doubt such will be found. But who knows...