Robert Todd Lincoln --The vitals

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(12-21-2017 07:40 PM)kerry Wrote:  I'm curious about the source for Robert's suppression - I can't figure out where that comes from.

I do not think I have seen a specific source either. The following, however, is typical of what I have seen in books:

In Mary Lincoln's Dressmaker: Elizabeth Keckley's Remarkable Rise from Slave to White House Confidante author Becky Rutberg writes:

"Robert Lincoln was so furious over the book's disclosure of private information and intimate details of his parents' relationship that he prevailed upon the publisher, Carleton & Company, to recall it from the market. He persuaded his friends to buy and burn all remaining copies."

No footnote or endnote for this.