Reignette, Congratulations!!

[David Lockmiller]

(03-18-2023 11:00 AM)ReignetteC Wrote:  "Interesting detail that Mrs. Lincoln would loan the coat to Vinnie Ream."

Mary Lincoln initially objected to having Ream borrow the clothing. In a letter to Alphonso Donn, to whom she gave the clothing," ML called Ream a "stranger, unladylike, and forward." Weeks later, she wrote to Donn again and wished the "stranger to me and mine" to "very sincerely succeed."

Do you believe that Vinnie Ream, who Mary Lincoln described in the initial letter to Alphonso Donn as this "stranger to me and mine," was a "stranger" to President Abraham Lincoln?

And, do you know why Mary Lincoln changed her mind and now wanted Vinnie Ream to "very sincerely succeed" in her sculpture of President Lincoln? Is there an answer to this question in the second letter?