Front matter

LINCOLN’S LOVE STORY

Drawing by Jay Hambidge.

“‘I cannot bear to think of her out there alone in the storm.’”

LINCOLN’S LOVE STORY

BY

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.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

PUBLISHED, JANUARY, 1909

NOTE

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