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[RJNorton]

Laurie, as far as I know, this story is undocumented. I believe the only place I've seen the story is in the preface to Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years:

"The Mayor of Galesburg in 1858, Henry Sanderson, is the only individual of casual record who carried warm cistern water to a bathtub for Lincoln and saw Lincoln taking a bath. There in Galesburg Clark E. Carr, author of "The Illini," repeated Bill Green's remark about Lincoln, "He can make a cat laugh." And there Lincoln when bantered about his backwardness with women, answered, "A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."