The madness of Mary Lincoln

Much like an April day

A most painful time of anxiety

No right to remain upon earth

Of unsound mind

Mrs. Lincoln admitted today

It does not appear that God is good

No more insane than I am

A deeply wronged woman

Resignation will never come

To be destroyed immediately

Epilogue

Appendix 1 : unpublished Mary Todd Lincoln letters

Appendix 2 : legal documents pertaining to the sale and destruction of the Mary Lincoln insanity letters

Appendix 3 : the psychiatric illness of Mary Lincoln / James S. Brust, M.D.