. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . s of Georgia, and Jefferson Davis of of the members of the mess at Mrs. Spriggss in the win-ter of 1847-1848 was Dr. S. C. Busey of Washington, D. C. I soon learned to know and admire Lincoln, says in his Personal Reminiscences and Recollections, for his simple and unostentatious manners, kind-hearted-ness, and amusing jokes, anecdotes, and witticisms. W
. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . s of Georgia, and Jefferson Davis of of the members of the mess at Mrs. Spriggss in the win-ter of 1847-1848 was Dr. S. C. Busey of Washington, D. C. I soon learned to know and admire Lincoln, says in his Personal Reminiscences and Recollections, for his simple and unostentatious manners, kind-hearted-ness, and amusing jokes, anecdotes, and witticisms. Whenabout to tell an anecdote during a meal he would lay downhis knife and fork, place his elbows upon the table, rest hisface between his hands, and begin with the words, That re-minds me, and proceed. Everybody prepared for the ex-plosion sure to follow. I recall with vivid pleasure the sceneof merriment at the dinner after his first speech in the Houseof Representatives, occasioned by the descriptions, by him-self and others of the congressional mess, of the uproar inthe House during its delivery. Congressman Lincoln was always neatly but very plainlydressed, very simple and approachable in manner, and unpre-. THE EARLIEST PORTRAIT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ABOUT 1848. AGE 39. From the original daguerreotype, owned bv Mr. Lincolns son, the Hon. Robert T. Lin-coln, through whose courtesy it was first published in McClures Magazine for Novem-ber, 1893. it was afterwards republished in the McClure Life of Lincoln, and in the* Century Magazine for February, 1897. IN WASHINGTON IN 1847 209 tentious. He attended to his business, going promptly to theHouse and remaining till the session adjourned, and ap-peared to be familiar with the progress of legislation. The town offered then little in the way of amusement. TheAdelphi theater was opened that winter for the first time, andpresented a variety of mediocre plays. At the Olympia werelively and beautiful exhibitions of model artists. Herz
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