Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [619]
“fair plump lady…altogether the advantage”: Entry for February 19, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 528.
the Pomeroy Committee…“available candidate”: “The Pomeroy Circular,” quoted in Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, pp. 499–500.
Pomeroy circular was leaked to the press: J. M. Winchell, quoted in NYT, September 15, 1874.
“No sensible man…if it killed me”: David Davis, quoted in King, Lincoln’s Manager, p. 215.
“had no knowledge…entire confidence”: SPC to AL, February 22, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
the circular’s author…“would sustain”: J. M. Winchell, quoted in NYT, September 15, 1874.
He understood the political…“enemies”: Entry for February 13, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, p. 333.
acknowledged receipt…“time to do so”: AL to SPC, February 23, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.
“Its recoil…than Lincoln”: Entry for February 22, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 529.
“It is unworthy…of this movement”: NYT, February 24, 1864.
the effect of the circular…Chase’s prospects: JGN to TB, February 28, 1864, container 3, Nicolay Papers.
In state after state…Lincoln’s renomination: NYT, February 24, 1864; Fitz Henry Warren to TW, March 25, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
Pomeroy’s home state…support for Lincoln: W. W. H. Lawrence to Abel C. Wilder and James H. Lane, February 15, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
the “long list…degree with Abraham Lincoln”: NYT, February 29, 1864.
Harper’s Weekly…“had been blinded”: Harper’s Weekly, March 5, 1864, p. 146.
“The masses…earnest and honest”: Entry for January 3, 1864, in Gurowski, Diary: 1863–’64–’65, p. 60.
The fatal blow: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 361.
“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, 1859–1866, 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 space: Levine, Highbrow / Lowbrow, pp. 26, 24–25.
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 relationship with young Fanny: See Fanny 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, Fanny 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.
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