Considered felicityious when the two went together. Three outer rungs applied social steady pressure, jockeying for pressure, the diplomats the army and navy crowd and the politicos, but clearly it was the cave dwellers particularly women like mary klemmer and Laura Holloway who influenced the pecking order among the capitols society. Fanny eams mrs. Charles, maintained an eclectic sunday salon at her 14th and 8th street home while her sister Marian Campbell governeur of new york was in several knickerbocker circles. Mrs. Eames reigned in d. C. And she would later befriend the first lady, mary lincoln. The physical attributes of the district did not recommend it. Noah brooks described the streets as canals of liquid mud. John hay concurred it would be difficult to conceive of a meaner street in architectural adornments than pennsylvania avenue. And as we just heard maybe the architectural recommendations of real estate on pennsylvania avenue remained there. There were of course areas o
Just heard maybe the architect architectureal recommendations of real estate on pennsylvania avenue remain there. There were of course areas of the city which boasted palatial homes, the finest aide of Stephen Douglass near i street and jersey avenue where his wife adelle a legendary beauty, nearly 25 years his junior held equally sumptuous was the mansion built by senator William Gwynn from california who spent 75,000 to furnish his home. Gwen harbor was arrested on charges of disloyalty when the war began was imprisoned until 1863. Then he went off to paris and became involved in a scheme for the colonization of southerners of the state of son nora in mexico. In consequence, he was sometimes called the duke of sonora. The retiring president James Buchanan supplemented his white House Entertainment budget with personal funds as he needed more than his salary to keep up with demands. The buchanan white house had undergone extensive renovations and run with great efficiencies. Ten serva
I think that i have very strong feelings about ann rutledge on film which i wont share. Nevertheless i think mary on film is a really interesting phenomenon. I do believe, for example you could see in the portrait with Sam Waterston with gore vidal and Mary Tyler Moore trying to show a woman with clear disturbances. I thought that was powerful. But i felt that the recent portrait by sally field which i very much regret didnt earn her her third oscar, was nevertheless such an amazing inhabiting of the role. I think people can have differences of opinion about what were her problem ss. What were her flaws. I think that portrait captured her as a flawed do you thinkynamic, intense character. She contributed to that in a way that i found amazing. Im regretful i cant name the actress who portrayed mary todd in lincoln the vampire slayer. You have to understand that any scholar who has written a biography of Harriet Tubman and mary lincoln that finds these characters taking guns to gettysbur
According to dr. Clinton, mary lincoln often drew criticism for keeping up appearances with lavish diplomatic dinners despite the civil war. This was part of a symposium at gettysburg. Its my pleasure to introduce your second speaker this morning, dr. Catherine clinton. Dr. Clinton earned her bachelors degree at harvard and ph. D. At princeton where she studied under dr. James mcpherson. She taught at the citadel, wesleyan wesleyan, brandeis, and Queens University in belfast Northern Ireland. Since august of 2014, shes been the denman endowed professor at American History at the university of texas at san antonio. So from Northern Ireland to texas, thats quite a journey. And 2016 shell assume the presidency of the Southern Historical association. Purpose tedious her prestigious post recognizing her standing in the field. Shes the author or editor of two dozen books, many focusing on family, gender, or womens issues in the 19th century. I suspect many people in this room have read her 2
Im David Carroll from chicago. Hi, david. Hi. In the last year published in the journal of the Abraham Lincoln association there has been great speculation on mary lincoln purchasing penny royal at dill lards drugstore in springfield when she was pregnant with tad who was born with a cleft palate. Penny royal is used to rid dogs of fleas or induce abortion. Do you have insight on this recent scholarship . Im sorry. I cant comment on that. My recent move and dislocation of many of my books and pieces meant that i dont have the 41 of oh mary lincoln but moving from ireland was difficult. I would say from my reading i have no evidence from her letters or otherwise that there would be any way i could comment or believe she was trying to not have a fourth child. The lincolns were besoted by their children. They were very proud and devoted that when she suffered family tragedies and the death of oh little eddie she was pregnant within a month. Indeed the idea of having two younger sons and r