Lincoln hails these fears as an
omen of happiness.
[Illustration: THE GLOBE HOTEL, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS.
In a letter to Joshua R. Speed, dated May 18, 1843, Lincoln wrote: "We
are not keeping house, but boarding at the Globe Tavern, which is very
well kept now by a widow lady of the name of Beck. Our room (the
same that Dr. Wallace occupied there) and boarding only costs us four
dollars a week.... I most heartily wish you and your Fanny would
not fail to come. Just let us know the time, and we will have a room
provided for you at our house, and all be merry together for a while."
The Globe Hotel stood in Springfield until about three years ago.]
"I hope and believe that your present anxiety and distress
about her health and her life must and will forever banish
those horrid doubts which I know you sometimes felt as to the
truth of your affection for her. If they can once and forever
be removed (and I almost feel a presentiment that the Almighty
has sent your present affliction expressly for that object),
surely nothing can come in their stead to fill their
immeasurable measure of misery.... I am now fully convinced
that you love her as ardently as you are capable of loving.
Your ever being happy in her presence, and your intense
anxiety about her health, if there were nothing else, would
place this beyond all dispute in my mind.
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