Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original playbill of the performance at Ford's Theatre for the evening on which Lincoln was assassinated April 14, 1865, is in the collection. It was not learned until late in the morning of that day that the play was to be honored by the presence of the President. Mr. Polkinhoru, manager of the theatre, immdiately asked the printer to alter the bill and to add a patriotic verse. This was impossible, but some playbills were changed to suit the manager's demand, and of these several reprints have been made. All the steps in the changing of this bill...
...distance between Europe and America is just as great and effectual as it was when Edgar Lee Masters wrote of the Spoon River artist at Rome, with his work that looked now like Apollo, now like Lincoln. What has long gone without attention across the water still creates a tumult here. Chiselled marble brings a self-conscious blush to the cheeks of the New World, when it turns from its machines to play the esthete. And, after all why need it be ashamed of its lack of artistic sophistication: No European culture was budding let alone flowering, in as short...
Among the patronesses for the occasion will be Miss Sarah G. Andrews, Mrs. Edward Burnett, Mrs. Lincoln Bryant, Mrs. J. S. Bryant, Mrs. Joseph Brewer, Mrs. John Balch, Mrs. Stanley Cunningham, Mrs. C. P. Clifford, Mrs. Howard Coonley, Mrs. P. P. Chase, Mrs. G. B. Dewson, Mrs. P. S. Dalton, Mrs. W. R. Driver, Mrs. D. D. Evans, Mrs. J. M. Forbes, Mrs. W. L. W. Field, Mrs. R. G. Fuller...
...When Lincoln was President and Walt was a rubber-stamp clerk in the Indian Office, Lincoln had already read Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," and expressed pleasure in them, although chastening his praise with regret at veiled allusions of the lines. Later Whitman was pointed out to Lincoln, who said: "Well, he looks like a man." These are practically all the ties with Whitman from the Lincoln side...
During the President's lifetime Whitman did not write a single line of praise that would presage his becoming the poet who has said the most remembered things about the President. "Drum-Taps" and its sequel did not appear until 1866. Walt Whitman said: "Lincoln is particularly my man . . . we are afloat on the same stream--we are rooted in the same ground." His words grow in presumption as the Lincoln tradition grows heartier. In the early days he had felt that they were young Lochinvars together, seeking fame in an alfen east...