Extra Credit Questions

[Joe Di Cola]

(05-19-2013 04:04 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Two previous boarders were Edward D. Baker and John T. Stuart. I'd guess Steward since he was much closer to Lincoln.

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(Joe, please call me Eva!)

Eva,

I apologize for the name gaffe--I certainly should do better since my mother's name was also Eva.

Joe

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(05-19-2013 03:31 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Joe, I think it was (1) Brown's Indian Queen Hotel and (2) the Library of Congress.

More Mrs. Sprigg's trivia - before the Lincolns boarded there, a previous boarder wrote the following about her boardinghouse:

"I will now tell you how I am situated. Mrs. Spriggs is directly in front of the Capitol and about as far from it as from our home to Mrs. Holmes' or Mr. Spear's. The iron railing around the Capitol Park comes within fifty feet of our door. Our dining room overlooks the whole Capitol Park which is one mile around and filled with shade trees and shrubbery. I have a pleasant room on the second floor with a good bed, plenty of covering, a bureau, table, chairs, closets and clothes press, a good fire place, and plenty of dry wood to burn in it."

We have always upon the table Graham bread and corn bread. A pitcher of milk is always set by my plate and a deep soup plate for a bowl so that I can always have bread and milk, and with that alone I can always have a good diet, good enough. The milk by the way is very good. Mush we have always once and generally twice a day; apples always once a day; at dinner potatoes, turnips, parsnips, spinnage [sic] with eggs, almonds, raisins, figs and bread; the puddings, pies, cakes, etc., etc., I have of course nothing to do with. My anti-meat, butter, tea and coffee, etc. ism excites of course some attention but no sneers.

Who wrote this?

Roger,

You are right on both counts. I would have awarded you an all-expenses-paid weekend at Brown's, but it, too, is no more.

Joe