Identifier: wasabrahamlincol00lcmayn (find matches)
Title: Was Abraham Lincoln a spiritualist?
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Maynard, Nettie Colburn, 1841-1892
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Spiritualism
Publisher: Philadelphia, R. C. Hartranft
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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your early reply, and with many kind wishes, I am, sincerely, N. C. M. This was in substance the contents of my letter, to which camea reply as follows:— July 20, 1887.Law Offices F. C. Somes, Washington, D. C,514 F St. N. W. Dear Mrs. Maynard : Your letter to father and motherwas received on the eve of fathers departure for Boston, andmother being sick, I am commissioned to acknowledge theletter. Father wishes me to say to you that he is willing his nameshall be used as a witness to anything that transpired at the timeof which you write. He would be pleased to see the matterbefore it is published, as you suggest. The note* to which you refer has not been preserved. * The note referred to above was one written by Mrs. Lincoln toMis. Somes, requesting the pleasure of herself and young ladyfriends (N. CM. and P. H.), trusting that they would favor herwith a stance as she desired to see whether Pinkie (my spiritcontrol, an Indian girl) would recognize a friend who would bepresent, etc.
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HON. DANIEL K. SOMES.From photograph by Brady, 1S63. Copied by Bell, 1891. SPIRITUALISM AND WAR. 43 to me and assured me that success awaited my effortsin regard to my brother, but that I had other and GREATER WORK TO DO IN THAT CITY. I thought Very little, at the time, of the latter part of his prediction,my mind being wholly centered on the purpose ofgetting brother home. The next day I returned toAlexandria and found that the board of examining sur-geons had met and again adjourned after examining anumber of patients. Brother had received his ticket,but his name had not been called. He was disap-pointed and disheartened. I again visited the head-quarters of Surgeon-General Curtis, and explainedthat my brothers case had not received attention. Iwas treated politely, but in a manner that showed methat no interest was taken in the affair. Amid thethousands around them one case was of no moreimportance than another. Feeling for the first timesomewhat apprehensive, I returned to Washing

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