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One day, when the arrangement man had actually made an unusually great bouquet, Mrs. Lincoln suggested that I offer it to Governor Sprague. I presume she had actually heard me mention him and surmised that I appreciated him greatly. However as I was happily bearing the bouquet to my daddy's space in the Patent Office, thinking en route, of an appropriate speech to go with it, Miss Kate Chase appeared, sweeping along the hall accompanied by two officers.


Lincoln provided them to me to take to Guv Sprague,' I answered.' I will hand them to the guv with Mrs. Lincoln's compliments,' stated Miss Chase imperiously, taking the arrangement from me. This Is Noteworthy was really good-looking, perfectly dressed, and accustomed to have what she desired, and she took the arrangement from me prior to I could get up adequate spunk to withstand.


Lincoln in wrath and tears. 'Never mind, Julia,' she said. 'You shall have another just as pretty for the guv when Miss Chase isn't around.' However Miss Chase was always around. In fact, she married him. 8 Some of Mrs. Lincoln's flowers caused even more trouble. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, according to one of his aides, "was often angered because Mrs.


and Mrs. Wood both of whom denounced the Secretary and the war nonstop offered a public reception. She struck back by sending to him books and clippings explaining an exacting and disagreeable person." 9 The gardens and the conservatory were the source of a less aromatic item the scandals produced by the interaction of an unethical gardener, John Watt, and Mrs.


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" In her check outs to the conservatory, she began going over the matter [of her extreme refurnishing bills] with Watt. First she hinted, then she poured out the entire tale of trouble as he worked close by amongst the pots and tubs of plants. This rarest of chances was not missed out on by the garden enthusiast, who soon won her confidence with his positive ideas on opportunities of escape." composed White House historian William Seale.


Doorkeeper Thomas Stackpole told Senator Orville Browning on March 2, 1862 that after President Lincoln disallowed journalistic spy Henry Wikoff from the White House, Mrs. Lincoln embraced "the habit of fulfilling him in the Green Home, Watt organizing the interviews." 11.





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