{"id":51,"date":"2008-12-09T15:47:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T20:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/lincoln-myths-and-misconceptions-quiz-answer-5\/"},"modified":"2008-12-09T15:47:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T20:47:29","slug":"lincoln-myths-and-misconceptions-quiz-answer-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/lincoln-myths-and-misconceptions-quiz-answer-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Myths and Misconceptions Quiz: Answer 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"captionRight\">\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href='https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/files\/2008\/12\/mes01875.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/lookingforlincoln\/files\/2008\/12\/mes01875-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mes01875\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lincoln Writes Grace Bedell about his Beard.<\/strong> Click photo to enlarge.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>5.  Lincoln\u2019s famous beard is said to have been inspired by this person:<br \/>\nA.  His son Tad<br \/>\nB.  A schoolgirl from New York<br \/>\nC.  His wife Mary<br \/>\nD.  His friend Joshua Speed<\/p>\n<p>B.  A SCHOOLGIRL FROM NEW YORK. <\/strong> Shortly after Lincoln\u2019s nomination for president in 1860, he received this letter from Grace Bedell, an 11-year-old girl from Westfield, N.Y.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hon A B Lincoln&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Dear Sir<br \/>\nMy father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture and Mr. Hamlin&#8217;s. I am a little girl only 11 years old, but want you should be President of the United States very much so I hope you wont think me very bold to write to such a great man as you are. Have you any little girls about as large as I am if so give them my love and tell her to write to me if you cannot answer this letter. I have got 4 brother&#8217;s and part of them will vote for you any way and if you let your whiskers grow I will try and get the rest of them to vote for you you would look a great deal better for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husband&#8217;s to vote for you and then you would be President. My father is going to vote for you and if I was a man I would vote for you to but I will try to get every one to vote for you that I can I think that rail fence around your picture makes it look very pretty I have got a little baby sister she is nine weeks old and is just as cunning as can be. When you direct your letter direct to Grace Bedell Westfield Chatauque County New York<br \/>\nI must not write any more answer this letter right off Good bye<br \/>\nGrace Bedell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His reply, one of the most famous pieces of Lincoln memorabilia, read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My dear little Miss<br \/>\nYour very agreeable letter of the 15th is received &#8211; I regret the necessity of saying I have no daughters &#8211; I have three sons &#8211; one seventeen, one nine, and one seven years of age &#8211; They, with their mother, constitute my whole family &#8211; As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affection if I were to begin it now?<br \/>\nYour very sincere well wisher<br \/>\nA. Lincoln<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the implications in the letter, one month later Lincoln had grown a beard.  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