Mrs. Mary Clemmer Ames writes to the Springfield Republican: Abraham Lincoln looks very awkward in white
kid gloves and feels uncomfortable in new boots. Mrs. Lincoln is very dumpy and very good
natured and very gorgeous, she stuns me with her low necked dresses and the
flower bed which she carries on the top of her head.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 3
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