【Tom读信】林肯和小女孩的通信All the ladies like whiskers

视频源：T大微博，http://www.weibo.com/1846858632/D7mThz2Gf?type=repost#_rnd1449504474601 Tom和茉莉姑娘！想起他们曾经交往过的八卦。。 我承认，听小女孩信的时候，我的思维滑向了别处。。查了一下，1920年美国女性公民获得投票权，在此之前多个州率先开放女性公民投票权，最早的是怀俄明州，1869年。而这封信写于1860年，女性公民所能做的只是tease她们的丈夫、get她们的兄弟投某候选人的票，当然我并不相信这会起多大作用。 以下letter live官网： http://letterslive.com/letter/all-the-ladies-like-whiskers/ All the ladies like whiskers Letters between Grace Bedell and Abraham Lincoln, read by Louise Brealey & Tom Hiddleston Background In 1860, having recently seen a picture of him without facial hair, an 11-year-old girl named Grace Bedell future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, with a single suggestion that would surely win him the affections of the voting public. That suggestion was simply to grow a beard. To her amazement and delight, Lincoln soon replied. A few months later she met him, and he now had a beard. Grace later recalled. “‘Gracie,’ he said, ‘look at my whiskers. I have been growing them for you.’ Then he kissed me. I never saw him again.” Westfield Chatauque Co NY Oct 15-1860 Hon A B Lincoln Dear Sir My father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture and Mr. Hamlin’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 brothers 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 husbands 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 Chautauqua County New York. I must not write any more answer this letter right off Good bye Grace Bedell Springfield, Ill. Oct 19, 1860 Miss Grace Bedell My dear little Miss Your very agreeable letter of the 15th is received— I regret the necessity of saying I have no daughters— I have three sons— one seventeen, one nine, and one seven years of age— They, with their mother, constitute my whole family— As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now? Your very sincere well wisher A. Lincoln