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RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Eva Elisabeth - 08-07-2014
Thanks for your smart guesses, Roger and tblunk! I'm sorry, it's neither, and I'm sorry to admit I didn't want to make it too easy, and the New Salem days hint was probably a little red herring. The following not, I promise:
Hint #3: Although this person saw A. L. the first time on that occasion, he lived in Springfield, and did so most of his life.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Gene C - 08-07-2014
Herndon ?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Eva Elisabeth - 08-07-2014
Kudos, Gene! It was Herndon's recipe, and actually he was drunk when he created this dish.
Petersburg newspaper editor John Hill recalled (as he told to Ida Tarbell in 1896) witnessing this in a restaurant, and ended: ",...and [Herndon]was about to duplicate, when I persuaded him to go with me to the hotel, and finally put him to bed. This is one of many instances."
Gene, your prize is a dinner à la Herndon (and I consider awarding all guessers as my hints were so distracting ...)
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - LincolnToddFan - 08-07-2014
I am not surprised that Herndon was drunk when he came up with his recipe for "oyster stew". It sounds disgusting!
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - L Verge - 08-08-2014
He didn't even come close to making true oyster stew. It's actually quite good if made correctly -- once you get used to what the oysters look like bombing around in the broth.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Gene C - 08-25-2014
In 1978 a packet of personal letters was uncovered that had been hidden for almost a hundred years. What well known person of the Civil War era wrote the letters?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - LincolnToddFan - 08-25-2014
Gene,
Was it Mary Todd Lincoln?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Gene C - 08-25-2014
Nice try, but no.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Eva Elisabeth - 08-25-2014
Edward Bates? Or Judah Benjamin?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Rogerm - 08-25-2014
Were they written by Abraham Lincoln himself?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - RJNorton - 08-26-2014
Ulysses S. Grant?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Eva Elisabeth - 08-26-2014
Sorry, can't wait any longer now to post the third one that came to my mind - Carl Schurz?
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Gene C - 08-26-2014
Sorry no. I'm heading out the door, the next clue will be in about 2 hours
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Gene C - 08-26-2014
Clue #1.
This packet contained 35 letters written over an eighteen year period, all written to the same person.
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Clue #2
The letters were written between 1864 and 1882. They were recovered from a bank vault.
RE: Trivial Trivia - taking trivia to new levels - Gene C - 08-26-2014
Clue # 3
The letters were written to this person's son-in-law, who had been a teller at the First Tennessee Bank in Memphis where the letters were stored. I'd tell you who he is , but then you could look him up on Google, and what fun would that be?