Killing Lincoln

[richard petersen]

I read a review by Cassandra Szklarski of the Canadian Press. Regarding the Seward House, "Virtually every line of dialogue is accounted for historically...an example, as the camera pans over there's a bowl of fruit and a couple of books on the trunk at the end of the bed. .. those two books are the ones historically that Seward's daughter had been reading and the bowl of fruit was delivered by Secretary Stanton"
An insignificant point, but is anybody aware of what Seward was reading? Was Stanton that concerned that he brought fruit over? This is the first I have heard on this subject.