Part 133 (1/2)
At one dinner party...”[had] ever known”: Entry for January 28, 1863, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 292.
welcome diversion in the telegraph office: Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 4142, 143, 190.
”Abe was in...'none anywhere else'”: AL, quoted in entry for April 21, 1863, in Dahlgren, Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, p. 390.
”a little after midnight...queer little conceits”: Entry for April 30, 1864, in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 194.
”Only those...heart bleeds”: MTL to Mary Janes Welles, February 21, 1863, reel 35, Welles Papers.
Mary had gamely resumed...”to bear up”: MTL to Benjamin B. French, March 10, 1863, in Thomas F. Schwartz and Kim M. Bauer, ”Unpublished Mary Todd Lincoln,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln a.s.sociation 17 (Summer 1996), p. 5.
”affable and pleasant...out of sight”: Entry for February 22, 1863, in French, Witness to the Young Republic, p. 417.
”much shorter...his composition”: Entry for February 12, 1863, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.
In grat.i.tude to Rebecca Pomroy...”look their best”: Boyden, Echoes from Hospital and White House, pp. 13132.
”brilliantly lighted...children's children”: Pomroy, quoted in ibid., pp. 13233.
Swisshelm had initially...”and its cause”: Jane Grey Swisshelm, Half a Century (Chicago: J. G. Swisshelm, 1880), pp. 23637 (quotes p. 237).
Mary was delighted...Nettie Colburn: Nettie Colburn Maynard, Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?, or Curious Revelations from the Life of a Trance Medium (Philadelphia: Rufus C. Hartranft, 1891), p. 83.
”very choice spirits...agreeable ladies”: Joshua F. Speed to AL, October 26, 1863, Lincoln Papers.
”Welcome, Mr. Lincoln...I was coming”: Mr. Laurie and AL, quoted in Maynard, Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?, p. 83.
The guests settled into...”easy chairs of the day”: S. P. Kase, quoted in J. J. Fitzgerrell, Lincoln Was a Spiritualist (Los Angeles: Austin Publis.h.i.+ng Co., 1924), pp. 1819.
”Well, Miss Nettie...say to me to-night?”: Maynard, Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?, p. 85.
There is no evidence that Lincoln...”learn the secret”: ”Lord Colchester-Spirit Medium,” Lincoln Lore, no. 1497 (November 1962), p. 4.
She spoke for an hour...”not this wonderful?”: S. P. Kase, quoted in Fitzgerrell, Lincoln Was a Spiritualist, pp. 2021.
”I have neither...I must resume it”: SPC to Horace Greeley, January 28, 1863, reel 24, Chase Papers.
Chase became physically ill...make it through: SPC to Richard C. Parsons, February 16, 1863, reel 25, Chase Papers.
his own handsome face...every dollar bill: SPC, ”Going Home to Vote.” Authentic Speeches of S. P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, During His Visit to Ohio, with His Speeches at Indianapolis, and at the Ma.s.s Meeting in Baltimore, October, 1863 (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: W. H. Moore, 1863), p. 25; Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 176.
his own strained finances...bonds to the public: SPC to Jay Cooke, June 2, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
Charles Benjamin...quickly make amends: Benjamin, ”Recollections of Secretary Edwin M. Stanton,” Century (1887), p. 759.
asked why he disliked...”detested it”: Entry for April 25, 1863, Diary of George Templeton Strong, Vol. III, p. 314.
”nervous irritability”: E. D. Townsend, Anecdotes of the Civil War in the United States (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1884), p. 136.
his asthma...consent to seek rest: Benjamin, ”Recollections of Secretary Edwin M. Stanton,” Century (1887), pp. 75960.