What did Mr. Lincoln enjoy doing?

[RJNorton]

Yesterday I continued researching this story as I agree that it is a good one (despite what Fido thinks). And I found it in another book. It is in Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln compiled and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher. The Fehrenbachers write, "According to a letter said to have been written by Miner to one of his daughters on April 12, 1862, Lincoln fed a cat at the dinner table, saying, "If the gold fork was good enough for Buchanan I think it is good enough for Tabby." The source of the quote is given as p. 9 of Reminiscences of Mary Miner Hill.

The Fehrenbacher's give Lincoln's quote a "D" which means they regard it as, "A quotation about whose authenticity there is more than average doubt."

So the Fehrenbachers are pretty much in agreement with Fido's unnamed family sources.