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Bale, Jacob: mentioned, 449, 450, 534n
Bale house, 427, 534
Baltimore, Md.: plot against AL at, 264, 267¬
314, 317¬25, 346, 432¬35
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: AL's original
route to Washington, 318; mentioned, 285
Baltimore Guards: secessionist paramilitary
group, 298
Bancroft, Benjamin, 715
Bancroft, George: author of memorial address
on AL, 218, 229, 330, 565; Davis on, 218,
346; Hay on, 332; lecture inspired AL,
630¬31, 633; reference to 1863 letter, 672
Bangs, G. H., 269
Baptists: belief in election, 546; disfellow
‚
shiped member of temperance society, 546
¿Barbara Allen,î 168
Barclay, James: A Complete and Universal Dic
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tionary, 42, 101, 105¬6, 139
Barker, William: attended Grigsby infare, 598;
AL wrote piece about, 598
Barley, M. See Warne, Kate (alias M. Barley)
Barnet, James: biographical sketch of, 739; let
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ter from, 570
Barret, Richard F.: biographical sketch of, 739;
letter from, 664; husband of Sarah Rickard,
640; sent WHH photograph of wife, 664
Barret, Sarah R. See Rickard, Sarah
Barrett, Dr. Richard F., 8
Barrett, George J.: biographical sketch of,
739¬40; interview with, 436
Barrett, J. H., 722n
Barrett, Joseph H.: biographical sketch of,
740; letter from, 364; AL biographer, 56,
241, 352, 566, 570; Life of Abraham Lin
‚coln, 740, 768
Barrett, Oliver R., 436n, 739
Barrett, W. T., 722n
Bartlett, Fred H.: biographical sketch of, 740;
letter from, 686
Bartlett, Homer, 687, 692
Basler, Roy P.: on AL's handwriting, xxv
Bateman, Newton: biographical sketch of,
740; interview with, 436¬37; letter from,
572; talked religion with AL, 436, 572;
criticized by Arnold, 588
Bates, Edward: candidate for Republican
nomination, 348, 683; mentioned, 745
Bealle, Milton, 571
Beard, [?], 476
Beardstown Chronicle, 430
Beckwith, [?], 647
Bedell, Grace: biographical sketch of, 740; let‚
ter from, 517; AL's letter to, 517
Beecher, Edward, 523
Bell, Abram, 740
Bell, Elizabeth Herndon: biographical sketch
of, 740; interview with, 591, 605, 606; story
of AL cooking, 591; claimed to have attend
‚ed quilting party with AL and Ann Rutledge,
591; AL's mode of dress, 591; AL frequently
at her father's place, 605; AL and Ann Rut
‚ledge at quilting party, 605, 606; Ann Rut
‚ledge jealous of AL, 605, 606; Ann Rutledge
‚irted with Hill, 605, 606; AL and Ann Rut
‚ledge had a ¿‚y upî but were reconciled,
605, 606; McNamar refused to marry Ann
Rutledge, 605; WHH on mental capacity of,
605n; AL and Graham work on surveying
problems, 606; AL and Graham sent for
wood, 606; AL loved her mother, 606
Bell, Victor B., 618, 619
Belleville Advocate, 494
Benedict, Kirby, 246n
Ben Hur (Wallace), 634
Bennett, James Gordon, 164
Bennett, John: biographical sketch of, 740;
letter from, 263¬64; AL at Green's service,
263; mentioned, 397
Bennett, William: biographical sketch of, 740;
interview with, 604; engagement of AL and
Ann Rutledge, 604
Bennett's tavern, 603
Bergen, [?], 577
Berry, Frank, 585
Berry, John: baptist preacher, 422; published
book on baptism, 422; call to preach, 546
Berry, Ned, 585
Berry, William G.: partnership with AL, 13,
20, 170, 378, 427, 493, 529¬30, 540;
death of, 51, 170, 378, 493; George Spears
on, 375; courted Ann Rutledge, 409;
bought out James A. Herndon, 460; kept a
doggery, 530; owned horse with AL, 534
Berry family, 584
Beveridge, Albert J., vii, xix; on WHH's col
‚lection, xviii; papers of, 498n
Bible: AL's reading of, 31, 37, 40, 76, 92, 106,
112, 121, 432, 446, 453, 455, 521, 636,
679; AL's ridicule of, 472, 576; Thomas
Lincoln's reading of, 533, 597, 646; AL's
quoting of, 573, 664; mentioned, 599
Bible (Lincoln family's): WHH notes from,
110¬11, 512, 693
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