Part 147 (1/2)

Mary Lincoln sent...”to believe it”: MTL to Daniel E. Sickles, February 6, 1864, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 16768; see also note 3 of MTL to Sickles.

when Emilie...Martha Todd White: See note 1 to JGN to Benjamin F. Butler, April 19, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

Lincoln issued a pa.s.s: On the subject of Martha Todd White's dealings with the Lincolns, see JGN to Butler, April 19, 1864; Butler to JGN, April 21, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

”Here...of your master”: Undated newspaper article pasted in JGN to Butler, April 19, 1863, container 28, Butler Papers; newspaper reports of Martha Todd White's statements to General Butler, quoted in Butler to JGN, April 21, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

he directed Nicolay to ascertain the facts: JGN to Butler, April 19, 1863, container 28, Butler Papers.

Butler replied...untoward had been found: Butler to JGN, April 21, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

Nicolay used Butler's letter: JGN to Butler, April 28, 1864; JGN to Horace Greeley, April 25, 1864; Greeley to JGN, April 26, 1864, Lincoln Papers. For an example of reb.u.t.tal issued, see NYTrib, April 27, 1864.

Butler was surprised...so ”silly”: Butler to JGN, April 21, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

Nor did he want...sustain the rebel cause: O. Stewart to AL, April 27, 1864, Lincoln Papers.

Browning requested a favor...”very good humor”: Entry for February 6, 1894, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 659.

he had visited...Owen Lovejoy: Entry for February 6, 1864, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 238.

”the best friend [he] had in Congress”: AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 18.

suffering from a debilitating liver and kidney ailment: NYT, March 28, 1864; Edward Magdol, Owen Lovejoy: Abolitionist in Congress (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1967), pp. 400, 40203.

”This war is eating...live to see the end”: AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 17.

a fire alarm rang...his brother, Willie: Robert W. McBride, Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1926), pp. 2930, 4446 (quotes pp. 4445); Star, February 11, 1864; Daily Morning Chronicle, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., February 11, 1864.

A coachman...setting the fire: Star, February 11, 1864; JGN to JH, February 10, 1864, in Nicolay, With Lincoln in the White House, p. 126.

instructed him to consult...”have it rebuilt”: Commissioner B. B. French to John H. Rice, February 11, 1863, pp. 29596, Vol. 14, reel 7, M371, RG 42, DNA (quote); Star, February 11, 1864.

”carefully veiled...a hopeless one”: McClure, Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times, p. 136.

Friends of Chase...biographical sketch: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 358.

”no matter how...flimsy political trick”: William Orton to SPC, January 6, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. IV, p. 247.

”malignant denunciations”: SPC to AL, January 13, 1864, reel 30, Chase Papers.

twenty-five long letters...inspirational book: Chase's series of autobiographical letters to John T. Trowbridge began on December 27, 1863, and ended on March 22, 1864, see Chase Papers; [John T. Trowbridge], The Ferry-Boy and the Financier, by a Contributor to the ”Atlantic” (Boston: Walker, Wise, & Co., 1864).

An excerpt appeared: J. T. Trowbridge, ”The First Visit to Was.h.i.+ngton,” Atlantic Monthly 13 (April 1864), pp. 44857.

”So far...otherwise than I have”: SPC to J. W. Hartwell, February 2, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

”I think of you...you are-where?”: SPC to Charlotte S. Eastman, February 1, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

Susan Walker...”bluestocking”: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 97 (quote), 20304.