ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 6, 8 January 1916, Page 10

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

"The Life and Letters of John Hay, J' just published, gives these glimpses of Lincoln's unconventional ways: —

"The President cams in last night in his shirt and told me Of the retirement of the enemy from liis works at Spottsylvania, and our pursuit. I complimented him on the amount of underpinning he still has left, and he said he weighed 180 pounds. ..Important, if true. (14th May, _ 1864. )1 ''A little after midnight the President came into the office laughing, with a volume of Hood's Works in his hand, to show Nicblay and me the little, caricature, 'An Unfortunate Bee-ing,' seemingly utterly unconscious that he; ; with his short Shirt hanging about his long legs, and Betting out behind like the tail feathers of an enormous ostrich, was infinitely funnier than anything in the book he was laughing at. What a man it is! Occupied all day i*ith iriatters of vast moment, deeply anxious about the fate of the greatest army of the world, with bis own plans and future hanging oh the events of the passing hour, he yet has such a wealth of simple bonhomie arid good fellowship that he gets out of bed and perambulates the house hi his shirt to find us that we may Share with him the fun of poor Hood's qufeer little conceits t" (1864.) John Hay was Lincoln's secretary and biographer, at one time Ambassador in London^ and also an icleal Secretary of State.