Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth

[Gene C]

This short chapter also deals with different aspects of Mr. Lincoln's character. The chapter starts...

"Washington, May 14.
I am sitting in the President's office. He was here very lately, but he
will not return to dispossess me of this high-backed chair he filled so long,
nor resume his daily work at the table where I am writing."

On p61 regarding his sense of humor
"He bought few new books, but seemed ever alive to works of comic value; the vein
of humor in him was not boisterous in its manifestations, but touched the
geniality of his nature, and he reproduced all that he absorbed, to elucidate
some new issue, or turn away argument by a laugh."