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[Eva Elisabeth]

(08-03-2016 04:36 PM)Houmes Wrote:  

(08-03-2016 12:51 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Hint #2: The other person was someone from whom we know a lot about the Lincolns.

William O. Stoddard

Excellent guess, Dr. Houmes, while Stoddard may well have done, too, he was not from Steubenville.

I have to apologize for my perhaps misleading last hint - although not entirely wrong I should better have written "Abraham Lincoln" as the main focus (and have "updated" above).

Hint #3: The reminiscence of the other that is my source has a game of m-t-p happening after a "business meeting".

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(08-03-2016 05:17 PM)Anita Wrote:  Homer Bates

"Stanton had a deserved reputation for irascibility but he also had a softer side, as revealed by an incident reported by Homer Bates, who worked in the War Department’s telegraph office: “One evening, in the summer of 1864, I rode out to the Soldiers Home with important dispatches for the President and Secretary of War, who were temporarily domiciled with their families on the grounds of the Home. I found Stanton reclining on the grass, playing with Lewis, one of his children ..He invited me to a seat on the greensward while he read the telegrams; and then, business being finished, we began talking of early times in Steubenville, Ohio, his native town and mine. One of us mentioned the game of ‘mumble-the-peg,’ and he asked me if I could play it. Of course I said yes, and he proposed that we should have a game then and there. Stanton entered into the spirit of the boyish sport with great zest , and for the moment all the perplexing questions of the terrible war were forgotten. I do not remember who won.'”9" http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/resi...1814-1869/

Kudos, Anita, that is correct! (Also see: David Homer Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office, pp. 397-98.)

Since knives aren't to be given away as gifts (said they will cut the ties that bind a friendship together), instead a game set of m-t-p you win the allegorical and less dangerous version:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rfnSfFQdrNo

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...alternatively - if you are up to dance:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mUQHGpxrz-8 (Such a pity Sir Simon is leaving Berlin...)