[8] Medical experts raised concerns about her mental development, seeing precocity as a risk factor for early breakdown.

[9] In 1903, the teenaged Helmer published another collection, this time her poetry, verses about her family members, her pets, golf, and other topics, under the title A Child's Thoughts in Rhyme.

[10] In 1909 she co-wrote Father Gander Golf Book with Inez Lenore Klumph, again as a fundraiser for the Daily News Fresh Air Fund.

[26] Although the Bradwell-Lincoln letters and Pritchard's manuscript were believed to be completely lost, a surviving copy was discovered in 2005, in a steamer trunk belonging to a Lincoln family attorney.

Myra Helmer Pritchard's 1927 manuscript was published in 2011 as The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters by Southern Illinois University Press.

[6][27] They were avid collie owners, and lived in Battle Creek, Michigan,[28] where James was the president of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.