Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly Quotes

“Lincoln’s height, saying she’ll need to “take a ladder to get to Abraham’s bosom.” (In later years, Lincoln would turn their fourteen-inch height difference into a joke; they were, he’d say, “the long and the short”
― Jennifer Fleischner, Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave

“Lincoln would remember this episode with amusement.20”
― Jennifer Fleischner, Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave