What did Mr. Lincoln enjoy doing?

[Linda Anderson]

Eva, Fanny recorded meeting Lincoln for the first time in her diary entry dated 9/1/1861.

"After dinner Father wh wished to go & see the President and asked
Jenny & I to go too—so in all our traveling attire we
went & made a very informal visit to Mr. Lincoln in
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his library or office—he received us very cordially, I liked
him very much—he looks sick, & is I fear threatened with
intermitting fever—the room was awfully hot with gas and
a wood fire. Several came in, among them S.P. Chase—
I had some conversation with Mr Nicolay--whom I liked
quite well—we were the [sic] perhaps half an hour or more—I
have no time to write longer of this—home and soon after
to bed—O! Mr. Lincoln showed us the pretty cats, kittens
given him by Father Sunday. They were playing in one ^of the grand^ halls. Mr. L.
^seems quite fond of them. Says they climb all over him."

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