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[AussieMick]

(04-15-2019 05:12 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Michael, I think you may have confused Willie and Tad. As Eva's post indicates, the samples we have of Tad's handwriting were actually written by adults. The "evidence" of Tad's writing indicates at least two different handwritings. But I believe Willie did his own writing. All evidence I've read indicates that he was an excellent student. He was very different about his studies in comparison to Tad.
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Ah, yes. It was, now I think too,Tad who had his letters written by adults. My apologies for the confusion.
Many people seem to agree that Willie was extremely advanced for his age.

BTW, I see that Tad Lincoln spent a few months being educated in Brixton, 'near' London, when he and his mother went to Europe. Thats according to 'Mrs. Abraham Lincoln: A Study of Her Personality and Her Influence on Lincoln' by W.A. Evans. Page 58
Mind you, I think Brixton was, even back then, very much a London suburb. So why the author should write 'near' London I dont know. Unless of course the author had the wrong location and mis-spelt it.
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=c5b...ln&f=false

Back in the 1870's Brixton was quite an upper middle class part of London. But I'm not aware of any major educational institutions there. (It went rapidly downhill from the 1910's ... and when I went to school in the 1960s there it was, well, very working class.)

http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/b...p1870.html