"Do you remember," he writes Mary Speed September 27, 1841, "my going to the city while I was in Kentucky, to have a tooth extracted, and making a failure of it? Well, that same old tooth got to paining me so much, that about a week since I had it torn out, bringing with it a bit of the jaw-bone; . . . my mouth is now so sore that I can neither talk, nor eat."Abraham Lincoln to Mary Speed, 27 September 1841, CW, 1:259-61.