Lincoln & Herndon

[LincolnToddFan]

Thanks Angela.

But Herndon also claimed he "knew" for sure how AL addressed his wife in their private correspondence. He was dead wrong.

He knew for sure that Lincoln had failed to appear at a wedding ceremony between him and Mary that had been scheduled for Jan 01, 1841. There was never any ceremony scheduled for that day, therefore it's not possible for Lincoln to have stood Mary up.

He knew for sure that Lincoln never had a moment of joy or happiness in 23 years of marriage, and that Mary married him solely for revenge and not love. There are too many eyewitness accounts to mention that directly contradict this, not to mention MTL's personal correspondence to AL in the early years of the marriage.

He was quite certain, as he told Jesse Weik, that Mary was somehow culpable in the premature deaths of her children. That was not only an incredible statement, it makes Herndon sound as vicious and unbalanced as he claimed MTL was.

It might well be that AL was occasionally driven from his home in the manner described by WH, but it's certainly not information that Lincoln or anyone close to Lincoln ever gave Herndon, because if it was he would have categorically said so or named names, at least in his private correspondence.