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[David Lockmiller]

(11-10-2025 07:19 PM)Anita Wrote:  Francis Carpenter. He describes measuring Lincoln on page 217 of my 1867 edition of Six Months at the White House.

The paragraph describing measuring Lincoln was also on page 217 of my 1879 edition of Six Months at the White House.

The description of the measurement was prefaced by a memorable paragraph:

All familiar with him will remember the weary air which became habitual during his last years, This was more of the mind than the body, and no rest and recreation which he allowed himself could relieve it. As he sometimes expressed it, the remedy "seemed never to reach the tired spot."

Mr. Lincoln's height was six feet three and three-quarter inches "in his stocking-feet." He stood up, one day, at the right of my large canvas, while I marked his exact height upon it.