Mary Lincoln's presence at Abraham's death-bed

[Jim Garrett]

Caroline has made an excellent point, and as those of you who have visited Petersen House know, the double parlor is not very large. With the interrogations going on and the amount of people coming and going right past her, it is a wonder that she did not "shut down" completely. And I would bet that Stanton and crew were not the least bit worried about noise - unless they thought it was disturbing the dying President.

I believe there were doors between the rooms of the double parlor, but have been taken off. If I'm correct the hinges are still there. I think I also read somewhere that the wall separating the two rooms had been moved about a foot by Louis Schade.