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Letter from Myra Bradwell to Abram Wakeman
In this letter, Myra Bradwell contacts Abram Wakeman on behalf of Mary Todd Lincoln, seeking assistance in proving her sanity and leaving the "insane asylum." The widow of Abraham Lincoln was committed to the institution by her only living son,…
Letter from Robert Todd Lincoln to Myra Bradwell
In this letter to Bradwell, Robert Todd Lincoln shares his disappointment that aunt Elizabeth Edwards is too unwell to visit his mother at Bellevue Place. He asks Myra Bradwell to visit less often, bring no one to visit Mary Lincoln that he does not…