The madness of Mary Lincoln / Jason Emerson.

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2007], ©2007.

xiii, 255 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-250) and index.

Much like an April day -- A most painful time of anxiety -- No right to remain upon earth -- Of unsound mind -- Mrs. Lincoln admitted today -- It does not appear that God is good -- No more insane than I am -- A deeply wronged woman -- Resignation will never come -- To be destroyed immediately -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 : Unpublished Mary Todd Lincoln letters -- Appendix 2 : Legal documents pertaining to the sale and destruction of the Mary Lincoln insanity letters -- Appendix 3 : The psychiatric illness of Mary Lincoln / James S. Brust, M.D.