Robert Todd Lincoln --The vitals

[ScholarInTraining]

Great responses! Yeah - I sympathize with both as well.

But I can't imagine how Robert felt during all of this. After watching siblings and father slowly die, mother suffers from hallucinations, headaches, starts believing in spiritualism, tries to kill herself with drugs, thinks "Indians" are pulling wires out of her brain, et cetera...as her only living son naturally sends her off to a comfortable modern (for the time) sanitarium, thinking he's treating her. Only to become the center focus of all of her anger and vitriol.
No wonder he always looked sad and tired.

I wonder if she ever truly started loving him as a son again.
I read that she DID, but with thousands of books out there you know how it is...

I apologize if I seem defensive of Robert. It's just that he's got over 100-ish years of "bad rep" on him. Which I think all started with William Herndon.