This must be my apology for any apparent rudeness noticeable. You resemble in a most remarkable degree a lady, very dear to me, now dead and your close resemblance to her surprised me the first time I saw you.
My dear Miss Hale, were it not for the License with a time-honored observance of this day allows, I had not written you this poor note. On Valentine's Day, 1862 or 1865, she received an anonymous note from John Wilkes Booth, a wildly popular stage actor and notorious ladies man, in which he wrote: She and her mother also visited the soldiers at the front lines when there was a cessation of fighting. She was seen at many parties, dances, and social functions and was one of the belles of Washington society. When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, she, her parents, and her sister Elizabeth went to live at the National Hotel in Washington, D.C., and she began working for the Sanitation Committee. John Wilkes Booth, actor and assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was Hale's secret fiancé Her father had entertained the hope that Lucy would marry Robert and although Senator Hale's wishes did not come to fruition, the couple would remain good friends for many years. She was shortly afterwards enrolled at a boarding school in Boston.Īnother of her admirers was Robert Todd Lincoln, eldest son of the future American president Abraham Lincoln. Her manner toward men was a "subtle brew of flattery, teasing and cajoling of rapt attention laced with a hints of indifference and occasionally a touch of cruelty".
At that time, she was described as having had "dark hair, blue eyes, a clear skin, and a stunning figure". whom she met on vacation in Maine and with whom she began a romantic correspondence in 1858 when she was 17 years old. He was the first of her many romantic conquests, which also included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. At the age of 12, she was receiving poems from a Harvard University student by the name of William Chandler. She was described as "pretty, precocious, sweet and good".
Senator John Parker Hale and Lucy Hill Lambert, daughter of William Thomas Lambert and Abigail Ricker. Lucy Hale was born on January 1, 1841, in Dover, New Hampshire, the second eldest daughter of U.S.
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