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"Mary, I've got something for you," Lincoln said, handing the watch to the wrong Mary.
Mr. Lincoln's
Gift to the Wrong Girl
By ANN CUTLER
When Abraham Lincoln met Mary N.
Curtis in Springfield, 111., during the
winter of 1840, he was already engaged to
the attractive and popular Mary Todd. She
had come to Springfield the year before to
live with her sister.
In an era when courtship was enveloped
in flowery speeches and graceful compli
ments, "Honest Abe" seemed an unlikely
candidate for the hand of Miss Todd, who
had a . distinguished family background.
Brilliant and witty, with a touch of audacity
which added to her charm, she had been
sought by such prominent and important
young men as the erudite Stephen A.
Douglas and the dashing James Shield.
But Miss Todd had an intuition that
Lincoln was destined for greatness she
was first to predict he would some day be
President and chose him in spite of his
gauche manners and ungainly appearance.
Ecstatically in love, the couple set their
wedding date to usher in the new year. As
a wedding gift, Lincoln selected a blue
enamel lapel watch decorated with rose
diamonds. On the cover was a jeweled star;
on the back a floral design, the leaves fash
ioned of tiny diamond chips.
The beautiful timepiece cost $300 a sum
equal to at least $3,000 in these inflationary
, times and all but wiped out his savings.
Lincoln had the gift inscribed "To Miss
Mary Todd from A. L., 1841." But Mary
Todd never saw the watch. Instead, it was -Mary
Curtis who received the gift!
Lincoln was not insensitive to the charm
ing picture the beautiful Miss Curtis made
with her taffeta skirts faintly rustling, an
aura of violet sachet emanating from her
person. But though he admired her beauty
and charm, Lincoln was almost tongue-tied
in her presence. A man who never had had
much time for girls, he felt clumsy and
uncouth with them.
Only with Mary Todd was he comfort
able. But she tried to change Lincoln, to
teach him the rules that governed the tight
little social circle from which she sprang.
Close friends of Lincoln were aware that
as his wedding day grew close he became
depressed and moody. He loved Mary Todd
and knew that she loved him but, like many
another young man, he feared the thought
of marriage with almost a mortal dread.
Finally, Lincoln broke the engagement.
All the rest of his life he was to refer to
what was to have been his wedding day as
the "fatal first of January, 1841."
The incident had a shattering effect
Given to bouts of melancholia, Lincoln be-
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Family Weekly, February 7, I960