"The crisis is pa.s.sed-the cloud is gone": Lewis Ca.s.s quoted in NYH, September 10, 1850.

"The elements...but never overcome": Columbus [Ga.] Sentinel, reprinted in Charleston [S.C.] Mercury, January 23, 1851.

"devotion to...inclined them": AL, "Speech at Peoria, Illinois," October 16, 1854, in CW, II, p. 253.

Rejecting Seward's concept...: AL, "Endors.e.m.e.nt on the Margin of the Missouri Democrat," [May 17, 1860], in CW, IV, p. 50.

He relished the convivial life: Strozier, Lincoln's Quest for Union, p. 144.

"The local belles...and eloquence": Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 63.

"plenty of bedbugs": David Davis to Sarah Davis, May 1, 1851, quoted in King, Lincoln's Manager, p. 77.

"half an inch thick": David Davis to Sarah Davis, April 24, 1851, David Davis Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, Ill. [hereafter Davis Papers, ALPLM].

slept two to a bed...in a room: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 62.

David Davis: See King, Lincoln's Manager, esp. pp. 913, 17, 61.

"warm-hearted" nature: David Davis to Sarah Davis, November 3, 1851, Davis Papers, ALPLM.

"exceeding honesty & fairness": David Davis to Sarah Davis, March 23, 1851, Davis Papers, ALPLM. 150 "too well to thwart her views": David Davis, quoted in King, Lincoln's Manager, p. 42.

the judge's letters about Lincoln: David Davis to Sarah Davis, May 3 and October 20, 1851, Davis Papers, ALPLM.

"He arrogated...personal affection": Unidentified lawyer, quoted in Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I, p. 247.

At mealtimes...prisoners out on bail: Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, pp. 63, 72.

"such of us...those who have": AL, "Temperance Address delivered before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society," February 22, 1842, in CW, I, p. 278.

"in full laugh till near daylight": WHH to "Mr. N.," February 4, 1874, Grandview [Ind.] Monitor, March 15, 1934, quoted in Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, p. 18 n67.

"eyes would sparkle...than his": Jonathan Birch, "A Student Who Was Aided by Mr. Lincoln," in Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln, p. 105.

Ethan Allen/George Washington story: Abner Y. Ellis statement, January 23, 1866, in HI, p. 174.

"who had a great...'than that dress'": John Usher interview with George Alfred Townsend, December 25, 1878, sc.r.a.pbook, Papers of George Alfred Townsend, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress.

"is the nature...is cradled": Walter Benjamin, "The Storyteller," in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968; New York: Schocken Books, 1969), p. 91.

"Would we do...thought and experience": Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 66.

"It makes human nature...is possible": AL on George Washington, quoted in ibid., p. 67.

When the court closed...throughout the weekend: Jesse W. Weik, The Real Lincoln: A Portrait (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1923), p. 90.

"wondered at it...pleasant, inviting homes": David Davis, quoted in Herndon and Weik, Herndon's Life of Lincoln, p. 249.

"as happy as...no other place": David Davis interview, September 20, 1866, in HI, p. 349.

"his home was h.e.l.l...Heaven": WHH, A Letter from William H. Herndon to Isaac N. Arnold, n.p. 152 "Lincoln speaks very...children": David Davis to Sarah Davis, November 3, 1851, quoted in King, Lincoln's Manager, p. 85.

Davis described a letter...Tad was born: David Davis to Sarah Davis, May 17, 1852, and September 18, 1853, Davis Papers, ALPLM; King, Lincoln's Manager, pp. 74, 84.

remedy the "want of education": Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered, p. 71.

"nearly mastered...Euclid": AL, "Scripps autobiography," in CW, IV, p. 62.

"he read hard works...read generally": John T. Stuart interview, December 20, 1866, in HI, p. 519.

"so deeply absorbed...point of exhaustion": WHH, in Weik, The Real Lincoln, p. 240.

"Life was to him...came before him": Swett, "Lincoln's Story of His Own Life," in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice, p. 79.

"one of the greatest hardships": Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 79.

circuit life was invaluable: Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, p. 94; White, Abraham Lincoln in 1854, p. 20; Strozier, Lincoln's Quest for Union, p. 144.

"If I muzzle not...the Whig party": WHS to FAS, July 21, 1850, in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 148.

Seward's eulogies to Clay and Webster: WHS, "Henry Clay" and "Daniel Webster," in Works of William H. Seward, Vol. III, pp. 10416.

"They cannot see...of wrath!": WHS to unidentified recipient [FAS?], 1852, in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 194.

"I do not wish you...true to liberty": FAS to WHS, June 13, [1852], reel 114, Seward Papers.

"worldly wisdom...current if necessary": FAS to WHS, July 20, 1856, reel 114, Seward Papers.

"This fearless defense...righteous cause": FAS to CS, September 18, 1852, reel 9, The Papers of Charles Sumner, Chadwyck-Healey microfilm edition [hereafter Sumner Papers].

"a Waterloo defeat": Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 196.

she was tempted..."more harm than good": FAS to LW, January 15, 1854, reel 119, Seward Papers.

"Would that I were...obligation and duty": WHS to FAS, May 16, 1855, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 251.

everywhere Seward went...join him: Johnson, "I Could Not be Well or Happy at Home," URLB (1978), p. 48.

Frances's health problems: FAS to LW, January 2, February 7, 1832; August 31, 1833, reel 118, Seward Papers; FAS, "Diary of Trip through Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland, 1835," reel 197, and FAS, MSS Fragment on Illness, 1865, Seward Papers; entries for December 28, 1858, and March 16, 1859, FS diary, reel 198, Seward Papers; Johnson, "Sensitivity and Civil War," pp. 2327.

her "sanctuary": WHS to FAS, February 12, 1837, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 325.

Doctors could not pinpoint: Johnson, "I Could Not be Well or Happy at Home," URLB (1978), pp. 4647.

the "various...purpose in their life": FAS, "Womans Mission, Westminster, 1850," reel 197, Seward Papers.

"There you are...pleasures, except at intervals": WHS to [FAS], June 13, 1847, in Seward, Seward at Washington...18461861, p. 51.