In 1939, the Atlantic Monthly Magazine published never-before-seen love letters between Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, his presumed first love. Ostensibly the letters had been passed down through the family of Wilma Minor, the journalist who broke the story. 🚩 With any good story though, everything wasn’t as it seemed…Sources:Abraham Lincoln and Ann RutledgeJOHN Y. SIMONSkip other details (including permanent urls, DOI, citation information)Volume 11, Issue 1, 1990, pp. 13-33Permalink: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.2629860.0011.104The Atlantic ArchivesFebruary 1929 IssueLincoln the LoverIII. The TragedyBy Wilma Frances Minor