The Turners' Work on Mrs. Lincoln

[Dawn E Foster]

(02-18-2013 03:34 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  No, right here is fine, Laurie. I think you will enjoy reading Mary's letters with one caveat....be ready for more commas than you've ever seen in your 49 years!

The Turners include a lot of explanatory text, too, which is very helpful.

I was thinking the same thing, Roger! Laurie, your head might explode from all the commas. I thought mine might, when I read it a couple of years ago. It was one of several old Lincoln books that I had picked up at my library's book sale for 25¢ or 50¢, and was slowly making my way through. I think that was the next-to-last one I read before finally (saving the best for last) taking Jim Bishop with me when I had my surgery on July 7th (!) the following summer. I really didn't have much knowledge of the subject at the time, but, oh my, the money I've spent on assassination- and conspirator-related books since then ...