Did Lincoln pick up Maj. Rathbone amd Miss Harris?

[Rhatkinson]

I respect John's research on this topic, but wonder what his response is to Harris' statement as reported in "Lincoln's Last Night" on 4/29/1865 where she wrote that, "They [President and Mrs. Lincoln] drove to our door in the gayest spirits..."

This would seem to imply that the Rathbone's were picked up, which I realize is contrary to what Noah Brooks and others reported. How do you explain this?

(I found this in the article "The Rathbone Connection" by Frank Rathbun in the July, 1982 issue of the Surratt Courrier.)

Heath