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The College Boy
Abraham Lincoln was president, but he was also a father. Similarly, Robert Todd Lincoln was the first couple’s oldest child, but also a typical college student. Here we see a classic dynamic of the parent/college-student relationship as Lincoln telegraphs naggingly to his son, “Why do I hear no more of you?”
Image: Robert in 1861
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Transcription of artifact document:
Washington, D. C., July 14 1863
Robt T. Lincoln
New-York.
5th Av. Hotel–
Why do I hear no more of you?
A. Lincoln
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