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In August 1861, a New York politico echoed Mrs. Child, expressing disgust with Mary Lincoln because at a time when “the country was in the throes of revolutionary travail she was coolly buying china and dresses in New York: and now that wounded men pant for Florence Nightingales in Washington she is relaxing at Long Branch [on the New Jersey shore] from—the cares of state.”
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