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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 9 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 2 0 Browse Search
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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xxxviii. (search)
rsion was reading Shakspeare. One day (it chanced to be the day before the capture of Norfolk) as he sat reading alone, he called to his aide Colonel Le Grand B. Cannon, of General Wool's staff. in the adjoining room,--You have been writing long enough, Colonel; come in here; I want to read you a passage in Hamlet. He read the discussion on ambition between Hamlet and his courtiers, and the soliloquy, in which conscience debates of a future state. This was followed by passages from MacBETHeth. Then opening to King John, he read from the third act the passage in which Constance bewails her imprisoned, lost boy. Closing the book, and recalling the words,-- And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again,-- Mr. Lincoln said: Colonel, did you ever dream of a lost friend, and feel that you were holding sweet communion with that friend, and yet have a sad consciousness that it was not a re