Ring braided from the hair of Tad Lincoln’s pony

[L Verge]

(01-01-2018 02:18 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(01-01-2018 02:09 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I also noted that the written note mentions Tad's "ponies." Did he have more than the one that was killed in the stable fire in 1864?

Laurie, right after the fire, John Nicolay wrote to John Hay, "Put crepe on your hat. Tonight, at about 8:30, while Cooper was gone to his supper, the stables took fire and burned down. The carriages and coupe alone were saved - everything else went - six horses, including the President's, ours, and Tad's two ponies...Tad was in bitter tears at the loss of his ponies, and his heaviest grief was that one of them had belonged to Willie."

Stupid me. I knew that Willie's pony was killed in the fire, but never stopped to think that once Willie died, Tad "inherited" his pony.