Mary Meets Abraham

[Linda Anderson]

(07-05-2012 06:05 PM)rjnorton Wrote:  

(07-05-2012 05:12 AM)rjnorton Wrote:  Mary Ann Todd first met Abraham Lincoln at a ball in Springfield in 1839.

When she first saw Lincoln at the ball what were her first 4 words?

I think I will just give the answer to this one. It's in a book I own
entitled Mary: Wife of Lincoln by her niece Katherine Helm (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1928).

Mary was at a cotillion in 1839, and she saw Abraham for the first time.

"Who is that man?" she asked with some excitement in her voice, losing for the moment her little Southern drawl. She had already divined that he must be the much talked of Lincoln."

Thanks, Roger. I didn't find the answer but in researching it I found The Courtship of Mr. Lincoln by Ruth Painter Randall on Archive.org which gives an interesting account of Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln's very different backgrounds.

http://www.archive.org/stream/courtshipo...p_djvu.txt