DREAM WALLPAPERS: Damask Wallpaper

Saturday 2 June 2012

Damask Wallpaper

Mary Todd Lincoln's shopping trip to New York City in December 1860 was her second visit to the city. It was "her first excursion as a public figure with her own entourage," wrote biographer Jennifer Fleischner. "The to-do made over Mary Lincoln by solicitous merchants, who were quite happy to extend credit to the future Mrs. President, was an undeniably thrilling experience, and Mary did not hang back from picking out whatever she wanted. But even better was the fawning welcome of the city's leading citizens: powerful, wealthy, and sophisticated New Yorkers."1