03267nam 2200697 a 450 991082428320332120230721032719.01-280-69731-897866136742720-8093-8755-71-4356-6348-9(CKB)1000000000537408(EBL)1354611(OCoLC)817089126(SSID)ssj0000195305(PQKBManifestationID)11174851(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195305(PQKBWorkID)10241809(PQKB)11367632(SSID)ssj0000811331(PQKBManifestationID)12375441(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000811331(PQKBWorkID)10848093(PQKB)23239233(MiAaPQ)EBC1354611(OCoLC)246668468(MdBmJHUP)muse19286(Au-PeEL)EBL1354611(CaPaEBR)ebr10555652(CaONFJC)MIL367427(EXLCZ)99100000000053740820070125d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe madness of Mary Lincoln[electronic resource] /Jason EmersonCarbondale Southern Illinois University Pressc20071 online resource (274 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8093-3010-5 0-8093-2771-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-250) and index.Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Much like an April Day; 2. A Most Painful Time of Anxiety; 3. No Right to Remain upon Earth; 4. Of Unsound Mind; 5. Mrs. Lincoln Admitted Today; 6. It Does Not Appear That God Is Good; 7. No More Insane than I Am; 8. A Deeply Wronged Woman; 9. Resignation Will Never Come; 10. To Be Destroyed Immediately; Epilogue; Appendix 1: Unpublished Mary Todd Lincoln Letters; Appendix 2: Legal Documents Pertaining to the Sale and Destruction of the Mary Lincoln Insanity LettersAppendix 3: The Psychiatric Illness of Mary LincolnNotes; Bibliography; Index; Author Bio; Back CoverIn 2005, historian Jason Emerson discovered a steamer trunk formerly owned by Robert Todd Lincoln's lawyer and stowed in an attic for forty years. The trunk contained a rare find: twenty-five letters pertaining to Mary Todd Lincoln's life and insanity case, letters assumed long destroyed by the Lincoln family. Mary wrote twenty of the letters herself, more than half from the insane asylum to which her son Robert had her committed, and many in the months and years after. The Madness of Mary Lincoln is the first examination of Mary Lincoln's mental illness bPresidents' spousesUnited StatesBiographyMental illnessUnited StatesCase studiesPresidents' spousesMental illness973.7092BEmerson Jason1975-1604807MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824283203321The madness of Mary Lincoln3929783UNINA