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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 34 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 18 0 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 12 0 Browse Search
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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, XX. (search)
mmon thing to receive them now; but they have ceased to give me any apprehension. I expressed some surprise at this, but he replied in his peculiar way, Oh, there is nothing like getting used to things! In connection with this, Mr. Noah Brooks,--who was to have been Mr. Nicolay's successor as private secretary to the President,--and Colonel Charles G. Halpine, of New York, have referred to personal conversations of exceeding interest, which I transcribe. In an article contributed to Harper's Magazine, soon after the assassination, Mr. Brooks says:-- The simple habits of Mr. Lincoln were so well known that it is a subject for surprise that watchful and malignant treason did not sooner take that precious life which he seemed to hold so lightly. He had an almost morbid dislike for an escort, or guide, and daily exposed himself to the deadly aim of an assassin. One summer morning, passing by the White House at an early hour, I saw the President standing at the gateway, looki
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, LXVII. (search)
ll, will never hear the last of the little stories with which the President garnished or illustrated his conversation and his early stump-speeches. He once said, however, that as near as he could reckon, about one sixth only of those credited to him were old acquaintances,--all the rest were the productions of other and better story-tellers than himself. I remember a good story when I hear it, he continued; but I never invented anything original; I am only a retail-dealer. Noah Brooks, Harper's Monthly, July, 1865. Mr. Lincoln's jocoseness, wrote another, though sometimes grim and sarcastic, was never abusive, and seldom wounded. Often nicely adapted to the place and the occasion, it was used, as the case might be, either as a shield or a weapon. Boston Watchman and Reflector. Humor and shrewdness, together with a certain nameless individuality, were combined in his stories in a degree that will secure for many of them enduring interest. These characteristics, marked a