How Reliable Is This?

[RJNorton]

Thanks, Toia! I wonder if she used Fido's brush, and this brush is now in Gene's possession.

Yesterday I tried to find where he combed his hair with his hands, and I did find what had been in the back of my mind. The incident was when Lincoln was sitting for Alexander Hessler on February 28, 1857. Hessler worked on Lincoln's hair to prepare him for the photo, but Lincoln said folks wouldn't recognize him with his hair looking neat. So Lincoln (as the story in Ostendorf's book goes) proceeded to run his fingers through his hair to prepare for the photo: