Team Of Rivals Part 148

"brought matters...of the gravest character": Richard C. Parsons to SPC, March 2, 1864, reel 32, Chase Papers.

to answer Chase's..."occasion for a change": AL to SPC, February 29, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.

In a public letter..."given to my name": SPC to James C. Hall, March 5, 1864, reel 32, Chase Papers.

Chase told his daughter..."welfare of the country": SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, March 15, 1864, reel 32, Chase Papers.

"It proves only...openly resisted": Entry for March 9, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 345.

Leonard Grover estimated..."a hundred times": Leonard Grover, "Lincoln's Interest in the Theater," Century 77 (April 1909), p. 944.

"It gave him...seen by the audience": Noah Brooks, "Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln," Scribners Monthly 15 (March 1878), p. 675.

"the drama...entire relief": Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, p. 191.

At a performance..."Hal's time": Ibid., p. 107.

developments with gaslight...onto the stage: Mary C. Henderson, "Scenography, Stagecraft, and Architecture in the American Theatre: Beginnings to 1870," in Don Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby, eds., The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Vol. I: Beginnings to 1870 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 415.

"To envision nineteenth-century...intimate s.p.a.ce: Levine, Highbrow / Lowbrow, pp. 26, 2425.

Frances Trollope complained..."and whiskey": Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans, p. 102.

The years surrounding...Charlotte Cushman: Garff B. Wilson, Three Hundred Years of American Drama and Theatre: From Ye Bear and Ye Cubb to Hair (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1973), p. 144.

"she was not...vitality of her presence": NYTrib, February 19, 1876.

Seward and Miss Cushman...at the Seward home: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, p. 338.

a close relations.h.i.+p with young f.a.n.n.y: See f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers; FAS to CS, June 10, 1858, reel 17, Sumner Papers.

"Imagine me...use in the world": FS to FAS, February 11, 1864, reel 116, Seward Papers.

"the greatest man"...outside their family: Charlotte Cushman, quoted in entry for October 14, 1864, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.

Lincoln made his way...purpose of her visit: Charlotte Cushman to [WHS], July 9, 1861, Lincoln Papers.

"Perhaps the best...at criticism": AL to James H. Hackett, August 17, 1863, in CW, VI, p. 392.

Hackett shared..."without much malice": On the dissemination of Lincoln's letter to Hackett, see note 1 to AL to James H. Hackett, August 17, 1863, in ibid., p. 393; James H. Hackett to AL, October 22, 1863, Lincoln Papers; AL to James H. Hackett, November 2, 1863, in CW, VI, pp. 55859 (quote p. 558).

recalled bringing..."pleasant interval" from his work: William Kelley, in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Rice (1886 edn.), pp. 26467, 270.

"Edwin Booth has done...any other man": Lucia Gilbert Calhoun, "Edwin Booth," Galaxy 7 (January 1869), p. 85.

captivated audiences...generation: Richard Lockridge, Darling of Misfortune: Edwin Booth, 18331893 (New York: Century Co., 1932; New York: Benjamin Blom, 1971), pp. 14, 24, 3839, 56, 7879, 81; Harper's New Monthly Magazine 22 (April 1861), p. 702; E. C. Stedman, "Edwin Booth," Atlantic Monthly 17 (May 1866), p. 589.

Lincoln and Seward attended...Merchant of Venice: Entries for February 19, 25, 26; March 2, 4, and 10, 1864, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, pp. 24145; NR, March 3, 5, and 10, 1864; Grover, "Lincoln's Interest in the Theater," Century (1909), p. 946.

Booth came to dinner..."want of body in wine": Entry for March 1864, f.a.n.n.y Seward diary, Seward Papers.

antic.i.p.ating Booth's Hamlet..."upon the stage": Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, pp. 4951 (quotep. 51).

"laugh...' "Midsummer Night's Dream" '": Ibid., p. 150.

Chase and Bates considered..."Satanic diversion": Hendrick, Lincoln's War Cabinet, p. 10.

Stanton came only once...Tad loved the theater: Grover, "Lincoln's Interest in the Theater," Century (1909), pp. 946, 94445.

Tad would laugh..."seeing clearly why": "24 April 1864, Sunday," in Hay, Inside Lincoln's White House, p. 188.

"felt at home"...actually appeared in a play: Grover, "Lincoln's Interest in the Theater," Century (1909), p. 945.

who broke down in tears...and the Taft boys: Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father, p. 201.

arrived in the nation's capital: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 290.

Congress had revived...the Western armies: Smith, Grant, pp. 284, 286, 293, 294.

He walked into the Willard...the accommodations: Smith, Grant, p. 289; Brooks D. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 18221865 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), pp. 25859.

Grant took his son...and took a bow: Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 290 (quotes); Smith, Grant, p. 289.

walked over to the White House..."a tone of familiarity": Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant (New York: Century Co., 1897; New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1992), pp. 1819.

"a degree of awkwardness": Entry for March 9, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 538.

Lincoln referred him to Seward: Smith, Grant, pp. 28990; entry for March 9, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 53839.

"laces were torn...much mixed": Brooks, Mr. Lincoln's Was.h.i.+ngton, p. 290.

Seward rapidly maneuvered...see his face: Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 56.

"He blushed...and over his face": NYH, March 12, 1864.

"his warmest campaign during the war": Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 56.

The president..."walk it abreast": Porter, Campaigning with Grant, p. 20.

Grant wanted nothing more..."presidential chair": J. Russell Jones recollections, quoted in Tarbell, Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II (1917 edn.), pp. 18788.

made their way back...Grant wrote out his statement: Smith, Grant, p. 290; Memorandum, March 9, 1864, container 3, Nicolay Papers.

"quite embarra.s.sed...difficult to read": Memorandum, March 9, 1864, container 3, Nicolay Papers.

went upstairs to talk...a.s.sistance was needed: Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, p. 370.

Grant journeyed..."'show' business!": Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 57.