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90 "Be friends again": Herndon's Lincoln, 2:227.

90 except Dr. Henry: See Harry E. Pratt, Dr. Anson G. Henry: Lincoln's Physician and Friend (Harrogate, Tenn.: Lincoln Memorial University, 1944), and Wayne C. Temple, Dr. Anson G. Henry: Personal Physician to the Lincolns (Milwaukee: Lincoln Fellows.h.i.+p of Wisconsin, 1988).

90 "husband and wife": WHH, interview with Mrs. N. W. Edwards, [Jan. 10, 1866], HWC.

91 "out of the question": CW, 1:294295.

91 "and so interesting": CW, 1:295296.

91 "Rebecca, the widow": Beveridge, 1:343344.

91 the code duello:. For a spirited account of the Lincoln-s.h.i.+elds affair, see James E. Myers, The Astonis.h.i.+ng Saber Duel of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, Ill.: Lincoln-Herndon Building Publishers, 1968). The letters exchanged by the princ.i.p.als and their seconds are included in Herndon's Lincoln, 2: 243259.

92 "much of menace": CW, 1:299.

92 "such degradation": Beveridge, 1:345.

92 "of his backbone": Herndon's Lincoln, 2:260.

92 "for political effect": Ibid., 2:256.

92 "mention it again": Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 296, 299.

93 "eyes and ears": WHH, interview with Mrs. N. W. Edwards, [Jan. 10, 1866], HWC.

93 "to the slaughter": WHH, interview with James Matheny, May 3, 1866, HWC.

93 "h.e.l.l, I suppose": Herndon's Lincoln, 2:229.

CHAPTER FOUR: ALWAYS A WHIG

The t.i.tle of this chapter comes from Joel H. Silbey's excellent article, "'Always a Whig in Polities': The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln," Papers of the Abraham Lincoln a.s.sociation 8 (1986): 2142, an interpretation that I have drawn on heavily. A thoughtful chapter in Daniel Walker Howe's The Political Culture of the American Whigs (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979) places Lincoln in the Whig tradition. Gabor S. Boritt's magisterial Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream (Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1978) is especially valuable on Lincoln's economic ideas.

On Lincoln's legal career all the works cited in the previous chapter continue to be valuable, but I have drawn most heavily on John J. Duff, A. Lincoln: Prairie Lawyer (New York: Rinehart & Co., 1960). My account of the Lincoln & Herndon partners.h.i.+p repeats, often in the same words, material I included in Lincoln's Herndon (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948).

Ruth P. Randall's Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1953) needs to be balanced with William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (Chicago: Belford-Clarke Co., 1890). Jean H. Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1987), is shrewd and insightful. Michael Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994), which presents an exceedingly hostile account of Mary Lincoln, appeared too late for me to consider it in preparing the present biography.

Donald W. Riddle, Lincoln Runs for Congress (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1948) is a thorough account of Lincoln's quest for office.

94 "of profound wonder": CW, 1:305.

94 "a presidential chair": CW, 1:114.

94 "rooms for boarders": Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 99100; "The Lincolns' Globe Tavern," in The Collected Writings of James T. Hickey (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Society, 1990), pp. 4973. It is not clear whether the Lincolns paid $4 a week each or for both.

95 Globe was stingy: Mrs. David Davis to Mrs. Daniel R. Williams, Feb. 23, 1846, photostat, David Davis MSS, Chicago Historical Society.

95 "say, exactly yet": CW, 1:319.

95 "does Butler appoint?": CW, 1:325.