Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [606]
“Probably no woman…her successes”: Washington Post, August 1, 1899.
“Scarcely a person…lent a charm to the whole”: FS to LW, February 1, 1863, reel 116, Seward Papers.
Kate persuaded William: William Sprague to SPC, May 31, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers; William Sprague to KCS, June 12, 1863, Sprague Papers; SPC to William Sprague, July 14, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
“idea of taking…So I yield the point”: SPC to William Sprague, July 14, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
Chase would continue…William would cover: SPC to William Sprague, July 14, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers; William Sprague to KCS, July 22, 1863, Sprague Papers; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 342.
“the delicate link…united father & daughter”: William Sprague to SPC, November 4, 1863, reel 29, Chase Papers.
Sprague wisely decided…“enduring love”: William Sprague to KCS, June 12, 1863, Sprague Papers.
“Katie showed me…full wealth of her affections”: SPC to William Sprague, June 6, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
“as much of the pecuniary burden as possible”: William Sprague to SPC, May 31, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
to divest himself: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, pp. 84–85.
he informed Jay Cooke…“all right-minded men”: SPC to Jay Cooke, June 1, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
he returned a check…“as be right”: SPC to Jay Cooke, June 2, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
Chase joined Kate…returned to Washington: Lamphier, Kate Chase and William Sprague, p. 54.
his only companion…“sympathetic way”: SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, August 19, 1863, reel 28, Chase Papers (quote). See also note 2 to published edition of August 19 letter in The Salmon P. Chase Papers. Vol. IV: Correspondence, April 1863–1864, ed. John Niven (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, 1997), p. 106 n2.
He chastised Nettie…carelessness pained him: SPC to Janet Chase Hoyt, August 19, 1863, reel 28, Chase Papers.
he reprimanded Kate…vacation expenses: SPC to KCS, August 19, 1863, reel 28, Chase Papers.
a warm correspondence…“her letters”: Belden and Belden, So Fell the Angels, pp. 88–89 (quote p. 89).
Mrs. Eastman described…“of his own idolatry?”: Charlotte S. Eastman to SPC, July 19, 1863, reel 27, Chase Papers.
“What a sweet letter”…attend to the president: SPC to Charlotte S. Eastman, August 22, 1863, reel 28, Chase Papers.
“The Tycoon is in fine whack…where he is”: JH to JGN, August 7, 1863, in Hay, At Lincoln’s Side, p. 49.
Hay had a good sense of humor…“peal of fun”: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, pp. 93–94.
Hay accompanied the president: August 9, 1863, photograph of AL, in Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), p. 216.
“very good spirits”: “9 August 1863, Sunday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 70.
Rigidly posed…unsmiling portrait: Kunhardt, et al., Lincoln, p. 216.
required to sit…“Don’t move a muscle!”: George Sullivan, Mathew Brady: His Life and Photographs (New York: Cobblehill Books, 1994), pp. 17–18 (quote p. 18).
“contrived grinning…become obligatory”: James Mellon, ed., The Face of Lincoln (New York: Viking Press, 1979), pp. 13–14.
“the rebel power…to disintegrate”: “9 August 1863, Sunday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, p. 70.
pleasant outings…“sent me to bed”: “23 August 1863, Sunday,” in ibid., pp. 75–76 (quote p. 76); Washington Post, August 3, 1924; Pinsker, Lincoln’s Sanctuary, p. 115.
“I see the President…on K Street”: Whitman, Specimen Days (1971 edn.), p. 26.
“The President and I…the season is over”: EMS to Ellen Stanton, August 25, 1863, quoted in Gideon Stanton, ed., “Edwin M. Stanton.”
Stanton finally joined his wife…the Soldiers’ Home: Thomas and Hyman, Stanton, p. 284.
typically wide-ranging…“party to oppose a war”: “13 August 1863, Thursday,” in Hay, Inside Lincoln’s White House, pp. 72–73 (quote); Pamela Scott and Antoinette J. Lee, Buildings of the District of Columbia. Buildings of the United States Series (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 119, 128; “Progress of Civilization,