File:The true Abraham Lincoln (1904) (14577709297).jpg

Identifier: trueabrahamlinc19044curt (find matches)
Title: The true Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slaves Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia London : J.B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
rymuch as they have been ever since. The great publicreceptions, with their vast, rushing multitudes pouringpast him to shake hands, he rather enjoyed; they werenot a disagreeable task to him, and he seemed surprisedwhen people commiserated him upon them. He wouldshake hands with thousands of people, seemingly uncon-scious of what he was doing, murmuring some monot-onous salutation as they went by, his eye dim, histhoughts far withdrawn; then suddenly he would seesome familiar face,—his memory for faces was verygood,—and his eye would brighten and his whole formgrow attentive; he would greet the visitor with ahearty grasp and a ringing word and dismiss him witha cheery laugh that filled the Blue Room with infectiousgood-nature. Many people armed themselves with anappropriate speech to be delivered on these occasions,but unless it was compressed into the smallest possiblespace, it never was uttered; the crowd would jostle theperoration out of shape. If it were brief enough, and 286
Text Appearing After Image:
:?W PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND HIS SON TAD From a photograph by Brady, now in the War Department CollectionWashingfton, D. C LINCOLN IN THE WHITE HOUSE hit the Presidents fancy, it generally received a swiftanswer. One night an elderly gentleman from Buffalosaid, Up our way we believe in God and AbrahamLincoln/ to which the President replied, shoving himalong the line, My friend, you are more than halfright/ During the first year of the administration the housewas made lively by the games and pranks of Mr. Lin-colns two younger children, William and Thomas: Rob-ert, the eldest, was away at Harvard, only coming homefor short vacations. The two little boys, aged eight andten, with their Western independence and enterprise,kept the house in an uproar. They drove their tutorwild with their good-natured disobedience; they organ-ized a minstrel show in the attic; they made acquaint-ance with the office-seekers and became the hot cham-pions of the distressed. William was, with all his boyishfroli

Note About Images