Robert Todd Lincoln family papers
Contributors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2845
Subjects: Correspondence; Domestic Architecture; Assassination; Asylums
Description: Correspondence, legal and financial records, commissions, an autobiographical sketch, printed volumes, receipts, newspaper clippings, house plans, photographs, and a manuscript relating to Robert Todd Lincoln and his family.  Includes material concerning houses in Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) and Manchester, Vt.  Receipts include those with the name Grace Lincoln Temple, a noted interior decorator of the time.  Includes Mary Todd Lincoln's correspondence during her confinement at the private sanitorium of Bellevue, in Batavia, Ill., and following her release in 1876.  Correspondents in the Mary Todd Lincoln material include James B. Bradwell, Myra Bradwell, Elizabeth Todd Edwards, Richard J. Patterson, and Robert Todd Lincoln.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, transfer, and purchase, 1933-2008.

Family members represented include Robert Todd Lincoln (U.S. Army officer, U.S.secretary of war, diplomat, and lawyer), his wife Mary Harlan Lincoln, his daughters Mary Lincoln Isham and Jessie Lincoln Beckwith Johnson Randolph, his mother Mary Todd Lincoln, and his father Abraham Lincoln.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.