Encounters
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Unlike David Davis, Richard Yates, and other attorneys and politicians who wrote home regularly, Lincoln seldom corresponded with his wife. (Herndon said his partner “hated” to write letters.) Nor did she write often to him. In 1850, Davis reported that Lincoln had not received word from Mary since he left Springfield seven weeks earlier. Two years thereafter, Davis said that Lincoln, while on the circuit, had not heard from home in six weeks. Adeline Rossiter Judd, wife of Norman B. Judd, once asked Lincoln, then traveling the circuit, about his spouse. When he replied that he had received no word from her since he had started out three weeks earlier, Mrs. Judd rhetorically asked, “But Mr. Lincoln, aren’t you married?”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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