New Eyewitness Account?

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I can find the clip if needed, but I typed it up:

On September 7, 1867, the Columbian Register quoted the Boston Post as saying “Singular taste, that of Mrs. Lincoln, in having the scrap of Laura Keen’s dress, stained with her husband’s blood, framed and hung up in her house.” This was reportedly in the Springfield house, and may have simply been a false rumor, as Mary was averse to such reminders. Still, the paper commented, “not more so than the extensive sale of furniture, by auction, not long ago. An auction gave the transaction a notoriety which most people would have tried to avoid, under the circumstances.”

On October 14, the Buffalo Daily Courier printed a letter signed G, which, among other things, addressed the scandal. It was titled “She refuses the cloak of oblivion.”
"The robe worn by Laura Keene . . . was made valuable by the President’s life-blood, and the dingy red spot has been cut out, framed and hung in the parlor of one of his mourners."