"Acts of Remembrance: Mary Todd Lincoln and Her Husband's Memory"

[LincolnToddFan]

Linda-

Thank you so very much for this article! I have said it many times that any offenses, faux pas, mistakes or crimes committed by this unfortunate woman were more than expiated by her sufferings in the last 17 years of her life. One of her biographers(Dr. W.A. Evans) feels she simply cannot be held responsible for her behavior after 1861, when her imbalance became full blown. I wonder what her character and personality would have been, without the blight of mental illness?

Several of her biographers write that at the moment of death she smiled. What a relief it must have been.