Manuscripts
Mary Todd Lincoln letters to James Smith
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- Description
- These six letters were written by Mary Todd Lincoln to Reverend James Smith from 1866 to 1870. Several of the letters were written while the Lincolns were in Europe. In these letters, Mary Todd Lincoln talks about her husband Abraham Lincoln and his library, her travels abroad, her son Robert, William Herndon and his remembrances of her husband, and Congress voting on her pension of $3,000 a year.
- Production date
- 1866-1870.
- Call number
- mssHM 83480-83485
- Provenance
- Gift of Matthew A. Sweeney and Lucinda Strub, January 2018. These letters were originally put on deposit at the Huntington Library by Mrs. Stanley Graves in February 1965 until their gift in January 2018.
- Restrictions
