Show penn pen picture Pic of lincoln Lincol ns s last houn H an intimate pl picture of the home life of abraham lincoln was presented last year in llen Ile rata arsts international combined with cosmopolitan ala muga zinc sine in an article entitled Unc Lincol ns last day by mrs honore willsie morrow which brought tr to II 11 light ht two hitherto unpublished letters of UK tit great presidents widow mary todd lincoln the letters lettera were written to frank carpenter a new york artist who lad had painted tile the presidents portrait silt alt years before and a n friend or of the lincoln family they were occasioned liy by ills his request for or photographs of tho entire family as they were in ili 1801 when the president himself ant and the sou boll wlllie were alive that from these lie he might build a group for it painting of the family the letters are the possessions of paul coster jr of new york who alio inherited then from ihn late uncle robert coster they mary todd lincoln in ili a light in ili which site she has possibly never before been pictured they show heri her the lie author says not as a Xan xanthippe xantippe tippe not as it clod butas hut as a lovable cultured suffering linnian human soul the author bemoans alie fact that such a rich source of facts regarding the martyred marty red lincoln should have been neglected by biographers and historians of the day fifty years too late she writes wr lea historians are b beginning 1 ing to realize that Lincol ns wife could have given them more than any other human being abou this psychology and his fits history could have agven them precious facts nothing I 1 have read lias has shown me so clearly as aa these letters lettera ahat history has lost by their inexcusable neglect for nearly fifty years the name of mary lincoln lias has been shrouded in contumely she liaa has been written into history as a coarse ill educated scold a curse to tier her husband and her children and then through the discovery of letters such as these she suddenly after a half bait century reveals herself to it us s the letters were written while the widow was still in the throes of tile the shock attendant to the assassination of lier her husband alie had pays the author fled to chicago and had bur led fed herself in a hotel in layde park with tier her two sons throughout both letters there Is evidence of her grief over the loss of her husband and her son the memory of the fatal duy day la Is indelibly imprinted in her memory how I 1 wish runs the letter you could have seen my dear husband the last three weeks of its his lift life having a realizing sense eliat the unnatural conflict was near its clasp and being roost most of 0 the time away froni from W washington where here lie he had find endured such conflicts or of mind within tile the last iasi four years feeling so encouraged lie he freely gave vent to his fits cheerfulness down the potomac lie he was almost boyish in his hia mirth and me of 11 his is original nature what I 1 haj hadi always J remembered of him hill in our i wn ti lioma arga from cure care surrounded by those lie loved so well all and by y whom lie he was so idolized Idoll ml the friday I 1 never saw him ailin so supremely cheerful lils lib manner wits almost playful at three in ln the alie affer afternoon noon lie drove out with me lie in ili the open carriage in starting la ladled sled liim film it if anyone should accompany ua he ha immediately replied no I 1 prefer to ride lide by ourselves today during the ride lie wits was so guy gay that I 1 said to him dear husband YOU youad at most start startle lit me by bouc your beat ri cheerfulness e ii fulu ful ness ess ile he replied acdwell An and dwell ell I 1 may feel so mary I 1 consider tilts day tile lie war lias has come to a close close abild and tile then added we fiust both ile be more cheerful in the future between the war and tile loss of our darling we wa have both been very ery miserable every word then uttered la Is deeply eXi graven on my poor broken heart in the second epistle written december 8 1805 i site she refers to tile alie late chants thanksgiving giving day as the lie saddest of all my vry very sad days only those who havo have suffered sulT cred and lost what alint made life so well worth living tor for can call fully understand the return of anniversaries ver saries sarles 11 she again refers to the dead wlllie title and tells the artists that in the picture of 0 jilin ilin she has sent for the fam lly ily group justice Is not done him lie he was waa a very beautiful bo boy with a most spiritual expression of face carpenter yas was running a series to in a new york paper pape r says tile the vil author lilT on tits his white house experiences and he had used part par t of mrs Lincol ns letter she rebah rebuked ed him with 1 I roust must say I 1 was greatly surp surprised rosed to see a simple letter jetter or 0 mine arlt te teo n nhep my heart wits was bursting with its great sorrow in prints print 1 I will s forgive you in iii tile hope it may neye never r occur again st louis globe denio demo drat crat |