Lincoln & Herndon

[RJNorton]

Personally I agree with Eva. I just think the two didn't like each other from the beginning, and it had little/nothing to do with the "serpent" episode. I think Mary wondered what Abraham saw in Herndon from the start. On p. 133 of her Mary Lincoln biography Jean Baker writes, "Envious of the legal matters that kept him (Abraham) away from home, Mary Lincoln thoroughly detested the roughneck Herndon, whom he had taken on as a partner in 1844."