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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC09395 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1860s |
| Title | Mary Todd Lincoln to Sally Orne |
| Date | 29 November 1869 |
| Author | Lincoln, Mary Todd (1818-1882) |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | To Sally Orne regarding her pension fight with Congress, friendship with Senator Charles Sumner, and Lincoln: "My bright little comforter Taddie, is of course with me today… The darkness is very great - we can only pray - that the dawn is at hand…If we fail, I fear, I shall sink under the blow. I have grown so nervous."4 p. With additional 4 pages, headed "Private & Burn." Though Turner calls this a separate incomplete letter, which he dates to 12-12-1869, it may be a lengthy postscript to the first letter: "My husband was so richly blessed with all these noble attributes that each day makes me worship his memory - more & more - Tomorrow is the anniversary of my birthday - I will be 46 and I feel 86 - my husband always so playfully and tenderly reminded me of the day, if I affected to forget it. He was 14 years and 10 months older than myself, & was from my eighteenth year - Always - lover - husband - father & all to me - Truly my all." |
| Subjects | First Lady Religion Children and Family Finance President Pension Marriage Women's History |
| Theme | Women in American History; Government & Politics; Children & Family; The Presidency |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |