Lincoln’s Dressmaker Chapter Fifteen OCTOBER 1866–FEBRUARY 1868 When Elizabeth returned to Washington, she had much business to attend to and mail to sort. Most of the letters were from Mrs. Lincoln, who struggled on as lonely and miserable as ever. In the summer she had become so weary of boarding that she spent nearly all of her husband’s remaining 1865 salary granted to her by Congress on a fine stone home on West Washington Street in Chicago. She and Tad had settled there, in a popular neighborhood near Union Park, while Robert had moved into a bachelor apartment, where he was no doubt much happier. After much consideration, Mrs. Lincoln had also warily consented to speak with Mr. Herndon, but when they met in Springfield in September, Mrs. Lincoln had tried to flatter and charm her husband’s would-be biographer into leaving her out of his book altogether. “I told him that it was not unusual to mention the existence of the wife, in the biography of her husband, with nothing more than to note that the two were married on this particular date in such and such a place,”
What do You think about Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker?
