LINCOLN’S LOVE STORY

ELEANOR ATKINSON

Author of “The Boyhood of Lincoln,”
and “Mamzelle Fifine”

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

MCMIX

Transcriber’s Notes:

Punctuation has been standardized.

This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated with a Transcriber’s Note.

Footnotes are identified in the text with a superscript number and have been accumulated in a table at the end of the text.

Transcriber Notes are used when making corrections to the text or to provide additional information for the modern reader. These notes are not identified in the text, but have been accumulated in a table at the end of the book.

PUBLISHED, JANUARY, 1909

NOTE

THIS STORY FIRST APPEARED IN THE “LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL” UNDER THE TITLE “THE LOVE STORY OF ANN RUTLEDGE.”

ILLUSTRATIONS

“‘I cannot bear to think of her out there alone in the storm’”	[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
Above the dam at New Salem	[6]
The grammar which Lincoln studied as a young man	[16]
New Salem, Ill., where Lincoln was postmaster	[20]
Squire Bowling Green’s cabin, near New Salem, Ill., as it is to-day	[32]
The top of the hill, New Salem	[36]
Gutzon Borglum’s conception of Lincoln	[46]
The grave of Ann Rutledge, Oakland Cemetery, Petersburg, Ill.	[56]