Mary Todd Lincoln [Revised 10/4/10]

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Books and Pamphlets

Baker, Jean H. The Lincoln Marriage: Beyond the Battle of Quotations (Gettysburg, Penn.: Gettysburg College, 1999). L2 F7375L 38th 1999

_____. Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1987). L2 L7374b

_____. Parallel Lives: Abraham and Mary Lincoln (Redlands, Calif.: Lincoln Memorial Shrine, 1990). L2 R317d 1990

Bassett, Margaret Byrd. Abraham & Mary Todd Lincoln (Porter’s Landing, Maine: Wheelwright, 1973). L2 B319a

Bauer, Charles J. The Lincoln-Douglas Triangle—With Naughty Mary Lincoln, Seduced by Latest Paris Fashions (Silver Springs, Maryland: Silver Springs Press, 1980). L2 B344L

Berry, Stephen W. House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, A Family Divided By War (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007). L2 B5338h

Brinkley, Phyllis C. Abraham Lincoln and His Wife, Mary: A Study of Two Human Beings: Address at Annual Meeting, Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973 (Madison, Wis.: The Fellowship, 1974). L2 H6734 no. 29

_____. The Lincolns: Targets for Controversy (Waunakee, Wis.: P. Brinkley, 1985). L2 B8581L

Brown, Mary Edwards (edited by Wayne C. Temple). Mrs. Mary Edwards Brown Tells the Story of Lincoln’s Wedding (Harrogate, Tenn.: Lincoln Memorial University Press, 1960). L2 B8786m

Cashman, Dorthy Moline. Lincoln’s Only Love (Springfield, Ill.: s.p., 1969). L2 C3379Lo

Clinton, Catherine. Mrs. Lincoln: A Life (New York: Harper, 2009). L2 C6409m

Croy, Homer. The Trial of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1962). L2 C9535t

Darrin, Charles Van Valkenburg. Your Truly Attached Friend, Mary Lincoln (Springfield, Ill.: Illinois State Historical Society, 1951). Not in our Library

Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln at Home: Two Glimpses of Abraham Lincoln’s Family Life (Simon & Schuster, 1999, 2000). L2 D675Linc

Dunn, C. Frank. The Boarding School of Mary Todd Lincoln: A Discussion As to Its Identification Between C. Frank Dunn and William H. Townsend, Originally Published in the Sunday Herald-Leader of Lexington, Kentucky (Lexington, Kentucky: Townsend, 1941). L2 D9228b

Dunn, Peggy. “Mrs. Lady President” and the Women of Washington Society (Springfield, Ill.: History on Fire, 2005). Not in our Library

Ellestson, D. H. Maryannery: Mary Ann Lincoln and Mary Ann Disraeli (London: J. Murray, 1959). L2 E454m

Emerson. Jason. The Madness of Mary Lincoln (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007). L2 E5311m

Evans, Sam T. Lincolns (Galatin, Mo.: S. T. Evans, 1981). L2 E9258L

Fiore, Jordan D. Books About Mary Todd Lincoln: A Contribution to a Bibliography. (self-published, 1982). Not in our Library

Fleischner, Jennifer. Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckley: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between A First Lady and a Former Slave (New York: Broadway Books, 2004). 3

L2 F596m

Helm, Katherine. The True Story of Mary, Wife of Lincoln; Containing the Recollections of Mary Lincoln’s Sister Emilie (Mrs. Benjamin Hardin Helm), Extracts from Her War- Time Diary, Numerous Letters and Other Documents now First Published (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928). L2 H4782m2

Henderson, Lyndee Jobe. More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women (Guilford, Conn.: Two Dot, 2007). Not in our Library

Holzer, Harold. Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln (Richmond, Vir.: United States Historical Society, 1984). L2 H762a

Hunt, Eugenia Jones. My Personal Recollections of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln (Peoria, Ill.: H. A. Moser, 1966). L2 H9393m 1966

Jackson, Ronald Vern. Abraham Lincoln and Mary Ann Todd Ancestry (Bountiful, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1980). L2 J137a Oversize

James, Jeannie H., and Temple, Wayne C. Mrs. Lincoln’s Clothing (n.p., 1960). L2 J274m

Keckley, Elizabeth (edited by Frances Smith Foster). Behind the Scenes; Formerly a Slave, but More Recently Modiste, and Friend to Mrs. Lincoln or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (Chicago, Ill: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1998; Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2001). L2 K25b 1868 L2 K25b 1868 (1998) L2 K25b 1868 (2001)

King, C. J. Four Marys and a Jessie: The Story of the Lincoln Women (Manchester, Vt.: Friends of Hildene, Inc., 2005). L2 K522f

Kinnaird, Virgina. Mrs. Lincoln as a White House Hostess (Springfield, Ill.: Illinois State Historical Society, 1938?). L2 K557m

Largent, Kimberly J. Defining Moments in the Lives of Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Howell Davis: First Ladies of the Civil War (PublishAmerica, 2006). Not in our Library 4

Larrimore, Hazel Rice. Stories of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln In and About Sprinfield (Chautauqua, N.Y.: Chataqua Literary and Scientific Circle, 1942). L2 L334s

Martin, Lorene. Mary Lincoln (Springfield, Ill.: Illinois State Historical Society, 1929). Not in our Library

Miller, Helen Topping. Christmas for Tad: A Story of Mary and Abraham Lincoln (New York: Longmans, Green, 1956). L2 M6475

Mitgang, Herbert. Has History Wronged Mary Lincoln? (Courier Journal & Times), 1973).

Morrow, Honore. Mary Todd Lincoln: An Appreciation of the Wife of Abraham Lincoln (W. Morrow & Co., 1928). L2 M8834m

Neely, Mark E., and McMurtry, R. Gerald. The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986). L2 L734n

Ostendorf, Lloyd. The Photographs of Mary Todd Lincoln (Springfield, Ill.: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 1989) L2 O85p 1968 (1989)

Packard, Jerrold M. The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a Family (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006). L2 P1189L

Randall, Ruth Painter. The Courtship of Mr. Lincoln (Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown & Co., 1957). L2 R189c

_____. I Mary: A Biography of the Girl Who Married Abraham Lincoln (Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown & Co., 1955). L2 R189i

_____. Lincoln’s Sons (Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown & Co., 1955). L2 R189L

_____. Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage (Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown & Co., 1953). L2 R189m

____. When Mary Lincoln Was Adjudged Insane: New Light on the Tragic Case of a President’s Widow Who Saw Her Own Son as a Hated Enemy (American Heritage Publishing Co., 1955). Not in our Library

Rhodes, James A., and Jauchius, Dean. The Trial of Mary Todd Lincoln (Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1959). L2 R476t

Roberts, Octavia. The Road of Remembrance (Aptos, Calif.: N. Lenox, 1997). Not in our Library

Ross, Ishbel. The President’s Wife: Mary Todd Lincoln, A Biography (New York: Putnam, 1973). L2 R8242p

Rogstad, Steven K. Companionship in Granite: Celebrating the Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln Monument (Racine, Wis.: Kenson Publishing, 1998). L2 R735c

Samples, M. David. Mrs. President; A Play About Mary Todd Lincoln (New York: n.p., 1970). L2 S1921m

Sandburg, Carl, and Angle, Paul M. Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1932). L2 S213m

Sang, Philip D. Mary Todd Lincoln: A Tragic Portrait (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University 1961). L2 S225m

Schreiner, Samuel Agnew, Jr. The Trials of Mrs. Lincoln: The Harrowing Never-Before- Told Story of Mary Todd Lincoln’s Last and Finest Years (New York: Donald I Fine, Inc., 1987). L2 L7374s

Simmons, Dawn Langley. A Rose for Mrs. Lincoln: A Biography of Mary Todd Lincoln (Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 1970). L2 S592r

Spencer, J. M. A Monument to Mary Todd Lincoln. (s.n., 1911). Not in our Library

Stoltz, Charles. The Tragic Career of Mary Todd Lincoln (South Bend, Ind.: privately published, The Round Table, 1931). 6

L2 S876t

Stone, Irving. Mary Todd Lincoln, A Final Judgement? (Springfield, Ill.: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1973). L2 S8775m

Strakes, George. Mary Todd Lincoln and the Illuminati (Authorhouse, 2006). Not in our Library

Temple, Wayne C. Lincoln’s Marriage Ceremony (Harrowgate, Tenn.: Lincoln Memorial University Press, 1960). L2 P967L

Todd, Malcolm Newton. A Genealogy of the Todd-Family Descendents and Celebrities: Mary Todd, Wife [of] Abraham Lincoln (Lawrenceville, Ind.: s.n., 1951). EZG T633t

Turner, Justin G., and Turner, Linda Levitt. Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters (New York: Knopf, 1972). L2 L7374 1972

United States Senate (Committee on Pensions). Report…[of] the Committee on Pensions, to Whom Was Referred Senate Joint Resolution No. 196, “Granting a Pension to Mrs. Mary Lincoln, Widow of the Late President of the United States, Who Was Killed During the War of the Rebellion (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1869). L2 U58rs 40-3 No. 197

_____. Report…[of] the Committee on Pensions, to Which Was Referred Senate Bill No. 19, “Granting a Pension to Mary Lincoln, Widow of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States… (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1870). L2 U58rs 41-2 No. 148

_____. Report (to Accompany Bill S.934) [Re] What Increase of Pension, if Any, Should Be Allowed to Mary Lincoln, Widow of Abraham Lincoln, and also Senate Bill 860…Granting Arrears of Pension to Mary Lincoln… (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1882). L2 U58rs 47-1 No. 77

Van der Heuvel, Gerry. Crowns of Thorns and Glory: Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Howell Davis, the Two First Ladies of the Civil War (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1988). L2 L7374v

Wallace, Frances [Todd]. Frances Jane (Todd) Wallace Describes Lincoln’s Wedding (Harrogate, Tenn.: Lincoln Memorial University, 1960). L2 W189m

Ward, Geoffrey C. Lincoln and His Family (Springfield, Ill.: Sangamon State University, 1978). L2 L74197L 1978 [v. 2]

Warren, Louis Austin. The Woman In Lincoln’s Life: With Special Emphasis on Her Cultural Attainments…An Address Before the Filson Club, April 3, 1944 (Louisville?, Kentucky: s.n., 1946?). L2 W2895w

Winkler, H. Donald. Lincoln’s Ladies: The Women in the Life of the Sixteenth President (Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland House, 2001, 2004). L2 W775w L2 W775w 2004

Wise, Sheila A. A Study in Nineteenth Century American Costumes Based on Mary Todd Lincoln and Thomas “Tad” Lincoln—Dissertation (ProQuest/UMI 2006). Not in our Library

Articles

Bach, Jennifer L. “Acts of Remembrance: Mary Todd Lincoln and Her Husband’s Memory,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 25 (Summer 2004): 25-49. L2

Baker, Jean H. “Mary Todd Lincoln: Managing Home, Husband, and Children,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 11 (1990): 1-12. L2

[Baringer, William E.] “‘My Tired & Weary Husband’: Mary Lincoln on Life in the Executive Mansion,” Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 4 (September 1946): 137-39. L2

Burlingame, Michael. “Honest Abe, Dishonest Mary,” Historical Bulletin of the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin (Racine, Wis.: Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, 1994). L2 H6734 no. 50

_____. “The Lincolns’ Marriage: ‘A Fountain of Misery, of a Quality Absolutely Infernal,’”in Michael Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1994). L2

Clinton, Catherine. “Wife versus Widow: Clashing Perspectives on Mary Lincoln’s Legacy,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 28:1 (Winter 2007): 1-19. 8

Hunt, Eugenia Jones. “My Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln,” Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 3 (March 1945): 235-52. L2

Randall, Ruth Painter. “Mary Lincoln: Judgment Appealed,” Abraham Lincoln Quarterly 5 (September 1949): 379-404. L2

Schwartz, Thomas F. “Mary Todd’s 1835 Visit to Springfield, Illinois,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 26 (Winter 2005): 42-45. L2

_____, and Bauer, Kim M. “Unpublished Mary Todd Lincoln,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 17 (Summer 1996): 1-21. L2

_____, and Shaughnessy, Anne V. “Unpublished Mary Lincoln Letters,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 11 (1990): 35-50. L2

Sklar, Kathryn Kish. “Victorian Women and Domestic Life: Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Beecher Stowe,” in Cullom Davis, ed., The Public and Private Lincoln: Contemporary Perspectives (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979): L2 P975

Squires, James Duane. “Lincoln’s Todd In-Laws,” reprinted from Lincoln Herald (Fall 1967). L2 S7745L

Suarez, John M. “Mary Todd Lincoln, A Case History,” reprinted from American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 122, No. 7 (January 1966). L2 S939m

Temple, Wayne C. “Mary Todd Lincoln as a ‘Sailor’,” reprinted from Lincoln Herald (Fall 1959): 101-110. L2 T287mt

_____. “Mary Todd Lincoln’s Travels,” reprinted from Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 52, No. 1 (Spring 1959). L2 T287m

Wilson, Douglas L. “William H. Herndon and Mary Todd Lincoln,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 22 (Summer 2001): 1-26. 9

Manuscripts

Bailache-Brayman Family Papers, 1796-1922. Manuscripts Box

Barton, William E. Letter to Mary Edwards Brown, May 23, 1924. Manuscripts SC 86

Black, Elizabeth Gundaker Dale. Transcript of Diary: January 1-December 21, 1852. Manuscripts SC 126

Bradford, Gamaliel. Letter to Francis P. Ide, September 19, 1924. Manuscripts SC 160

Edwards, Elizabeth Parker Todd. Letters to Edward L. and Julia Baker, March-April 1865. Manuscripts SC 445

Fowler, Joseph Smith. Letter to Henry Clay Whitney, December 3, 1867. Manuscript SC 522

Grimsley, Elizabeth Todd. Letters to John and Mary Stuart, April-August 1861. Manuscripts SC 608

_____. Six Months in the White House. Manuscripts SC 608

Hall-Johnston Family Papers, 1830-1952. Manuscripts SC 634a

Helm, Emily Todd. Letters, 1895-1926. Manuscripts SC 679

Henry, Anson G. Correspondence and Journal, 1852-1865. Manuscripts SC 683

Herndon, William Henry. Papers, 1866-1889. Manuscripts SC 689

Kautz, August V. Papers 1864-1865. Manuscripts SC 847 10

Miner, N. W. Papers. Manuscripts SC 1052

Minor Family Papers, 1837-1955. Manuscripts SC 1054

Pickett, Thomas Johnson. Papers, 1860-1864. Manuscripts SC 1173

Power, John Carroll. Papers, 1873-1900. Manuscripts SC 1207A

Robinson, William Culbertson. Papers, 1860-1877. Manuscripts SC 1285

Saunders, Sarah Rutledge. Letter, May 14, 1919. Manuscripts SC 1343

Sleeper, Sarah F. Letters, 1863-1865. Manuscripts SC 1405

Stuart-Hay Families Papers, 1817-1892. Manuscripts, 1 Box

Todd, John B. S. Letters, April 15-May 1, 1865. Manuscripts SC 913-2

Turner, Justin G. Papers, 1958-1972. Manuscripts, 2 Boxes

Weik, Jesse William. Correspondence, 1887-1921, 1948. Manuscripts SC 1633

Williams, Adele Cutts Douglas. Letter to Richard Yates, April 1865. Manuscripts SC 413

Juvenile Literature

Anderson, LaVere. Mary Todd Lincoln: President’s Wife (New York: Chelsea Juniors, 1991). L2 A5469m

Ashby, Ruth. Abraham & Mary Todd Lincoln (Milwaukee, Wis.: World Almanac Library, 2005). L2 A823a

Babcock, Bernie. Lincoln’s Mary and the Babies (L.B. Lippincott Co., 1929). L2 B1112L

Collins, David R. Shattered Dreams: The Story of Mary Todd Lincoln (Greensboro, N.C.: Morgan Reynolds, Inc., 1994). L2 L7374c

Furbee, Mary Rodd. Outrageous Women of Civil War Times (Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2003). Not in our Library

Hull, Mary E. Mary Todd Lincoln: Tragic First Lady of the Civil War (Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 2000). Not in our Library

Larkin, Tanya. What was Cooking in Mary Todd Lincoln’s White House? (New York: PowerKids Press, 2000, 2001). Not in our Library

Rinaldi, Ann. An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley (Harcourt Children’s Books, 2007). Not in our Library

Rutberg, Becky. Mary Lincoln’s Dressmaker: Elizabeth Keckley’s Remarkable Rise from Slave to White House Confidante (New York: Walker, 1995). Not in our Library

Sandak, Cass R. The Lincolns (New York: Crestwood House, 1992). L2 S2129L

Santow, Dan. Mary Todd Lincoln, 1818-1882 (Encyclopedia of First Ladies Series) (New York: Children’s Press, 1999). L2 S2373m

Wilkie, Katharine E. Mary Todd Lincoln: Girl of the Bluegrass (Indianapolis, Ind.: Bob- Merrill, 1954) (new edition, New York: Aladdin Books, 1992). L2 W683m

Fiction

Breckinridge, Frank P. Mary the Wife (of Abraham Lincoln); A Drama Adapted for Television (Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Literary Club, 1949). L2 B8287m

Colver, Anne. Mr. Lincoln’s Wife (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1943). L2 G736m du Pont, M. Kay. Loving Mr. Lincoln: The Personal Diaries of Mary Todd Lincoln (Jedco Press, 2003). Not in our Library

Graff, Polly Ann. Mr. Lincoln’s Wife [by] Anne Colver (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965). L2 G736m2

Hamby, Barbara. The Emancipator’s Wife: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln (New York: Bantam Books, 2005). L2 H1989e

Newman, Janis Cooke. Mary: A Novel (San Francisco, Calif.: MacAdam/Cage Pub., 2006). Not in our Library

Nilsson, Nancy M. Very Truly Yours, M. L.: A Visit with Mary Lincoln: A Theatrical Conversation in Two Acts (Rockville, Maryland: Twinbrook Communications, 1992). L2 L7374ni

Perry, Ruth. Irving Stone’s Love is Eternal, Dramatized by Ruth Sergel. A Play in Three Acts (Chicago, Ill.: Dramatic Pub. Co., 1955). L2 S484i

Prideaux, James. The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1973). L2 P947L

Replogle-Porter, Doris. “Without Discretion”: An Original Play in Three Acts Based on the Life of Mary Todd Lincoln (Naperville, Ill.: Replogle-Porter, 1981). L2 R425w

Rogers, Gayle. My Name Was Mary (Sojourner Publishers, 2003). Not in our Library

Stone, Irving. Love is Eternal: A Novel About Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln (New York: Doubleday, 1954). L2 S8775L 1954a