Robert Todd Lincoln --The vitals

[kerry]

"Many of the men mention Robert comforting his mother, so the person did not need to have been in the parlor with Mary." - how can we be sure of the person forwarding the correct wording then?

Thanks for the clipping, Kerry!

It seems that we cannot be sure. I did find that Dr. Gurley said those words to her, so perhaps there was confusion. It does seem like something that anyone would have said in that situation, but there is no way of knowing Robert's exact words.