Robert Todd Lincoln --The vitals

[kerry]

(01-12-2018 06:20 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Re. :"The actual quote does not include the words 'coolly' or 'resentfully' -- that's definitely speculation by Burlingame. 

Sorry, Kerry, it was late - I should have edited the quotation marks correctly. "Lincoln cooly replied," and "Robert added resentfully" are Burlingame's framing text. The rest is Robert's.

No apology needed -- I just wanted to give the context, because in this case it definitely makes a difference. What I assume is the original account is here: https://www.newspapers.com/image/5988300...y%2Blaw%22

Reading it again, it's not totally clear what men of great affairs miss much of what lesser men enjoy meant - that Lincoln was too busy to give advice or that Harvard was a "great affair" that took away from the fun of learning law elsewhere.