Andrew Johnson - Mistress

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(11-18-2017 09:39 PM)Steve Wrote:  Here's a link to a copy of the complete text of Farwell's 8 February 1866 letter to the Wisconsin Historical Society about what happened the night of the assassination:

https://books.google.com/books?id=v0jr52...&q&f=false

Thank you for posting this, Steve, and in reading and re-reading this Farwell description of that night (given in 1866, btw) - specifically on page 562 - I see nothing to indicate that there was any unusual delay between Farwell knocking twice, hearing Johnson supposedly getting out of bed, confirming that it was Farwell and then opening the door.

The hotel clerks had obeyed Farwell's hastily given orders to have guards placed at the door to the room, etc. Unless any female could quickly dress in all their underlayers and street dress and escape out a window and down a fire escape (was there such a thing at the Kirkwood?) to disappear without anyone seeing her, I think the aforementioned theory of Johnson being distracted by feminine wiles is highly unlikely.