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Mary Todd Lincoln in Batavia Bellevue Place letters revealed
Residents and historians await 25 letters including 20 by Lincoln from Batavia based in 1875. The newly found correspondence may illuminate her stay at the private asylum and her push for release. Lincoln died 1882 at age 62.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colleen Mastony
Chicago Tribune
Batavia
Ill
Abraham Lincoln
Bellevue Place
Cook County
Mary Todd Lincoln
Lincoln
Candace Broecker
Chevy Chase
Jason Emerson
Jean Baker
Jeffery Schielke
Chicago
Tremont House
Hyde Park
W. Pepa St
Tony
Robert
Bellevue
Emerson
Springfield
Europe
Depot Museum
Broecker