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Where did the Lincolns live after the Globe Tavern?
05-23-2018, 10:49 AM
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RE: Where did the Lincolns live after the Globe Tavern?
Burton's wife of 40 years had passed away about three years prior to his first meeting Wilma. It is my understanding she liked to flirt.

This exert from American Heritage Magazine - "Lincoln's Lost Love Letters by Don Ferenbacher
https://www.americanheritage.com/content...ve-letters

Meanwhile, Dr. Barton was making a trip to California, and on November 12, by prior arrangement, he met Miss Minor for an hour in the Los Angeles train station. Each found the other charming. Barton welcomed her to the fellowship of Lincoln writers and said nothing about the doubts he had expressed to Sedgwick. He also invited her to visit him at his summer home in Massachusetts. Wilma, in turn, told him how much she had relied upon his books and presented him inscribed photostats of some of her Lincoln letters. A lonely man since the death of his wife three years earlier, Barton scribbled an affectionate note to Wilma soon after boarding the eastbound Sunset Limited. “What a lively little adventure we had,” he exclaimed. “It was very pleasant to meet you as the train pulled in this morning and to have an hour’s visit and to learn all the interesting news you had to tell me! And you are going to write me ever so many love-letters and I shall inlay them in your book later. And when you are in Boston in the summer you are to call me up at Foxboro, only twenty-five miles out, and come and sleep under my pines and see my Lincoln material and swim in my little lake. Tell your mother I made love to you and hope to do it again. And write me very soon and often. …”

In spite of this foolishness, Barton was no fool where Lincoln documents were concerned. On the trip back to Nashville, he made a careful study of the photostats given him by Miss Minor and concluded that the letters were spurious. Yet, in writing to Sedgwick on November 15, he continued to balance his misgivings with a cordial hope that the collection would prove to be authentic.

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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RE: Where did the Lincolns live after the Globe Tavern? - Gene C - 05-23-2018 10:49 AM

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