Robert Todd Lincoln --The vitals

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(12-19-2017 03:31 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Unless something is written down in the subject's own handwriting, how can anyone truly determine the veracity of the statement or even the occasion upon which it supposedly occurred? Isn't that one of the great pitfalls of attempting to be a historian? If Francis Carpenter or Ward Hill Lamon had heard Lincoln say that to Mary, would they have been taken more seriously than Elizabeth Keckly?

They were definitely taken more seriously, considering gender and racial prejudices back then. :-(

I do wonder what the people's response was to the release of her book.

I think we should merge all of this over into a different or new thread?