Mary Lincoln sent..."to believe it": MTL to Daniel E. Sickles, February 6, 1864, in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 16768; see also note 3 of MTL to Sickles.
when Emilie...Martha Todd White: See note 1 to JGN to Benjamin F. Butler, April 19, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
Lincoln issued a pa.s.s: On the subject of Martha Todd White"s dealings with the Lincolns, see JGN to Butler, April 19, 1864; Butler to JGN, April 21, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
"Here...of your master": Undated newspaper article pasted in JGN to Butler, April 19, 1863, container 28, Butler Papers; newspaper reports of Martha Todd White"s statements to General Butler, quoted in Butler to JGN, April 21, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
he directed Nicolay to ascertain the facts: JGN to Butler, April 19, 1863, container 28, Butler Papers.
Butler replied...untoward had been found: Butler to JGN, April 21, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
Nicolay used Butler"s letter: JGN to Butler, April 28, 1864; JGN to Horace Greeley, April 25, 1864; Greeley to JGN, April 26, 1864, Lincoln Papers. For an example of reb.u.t.tal issued, see NYTrib, April 27, 1864.
Butler was surprised...so "silly": Butler to JGN, April 21, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
Nor did he want...sustain the rebel cause: O. Stewart to AL, April 27, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
Browning requested a favor..."very good humor": Entry for February 6, 1894, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 659.
he had visited...Owen Lovejoy: Entry for February 6, 1864, in Lincoln Day by Day, Vol. III, p. 238.
"the best friend [he] had in Congress": AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 18.
suffering from a debilitating liver and kidney ailment: NYT, March 28, 1864; Edward Magdol, Owen Lovejoy: Abolitionist in Congress (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1967), pp. 400, 40203.
"This war is eating...live to see the end": AL, quoted in Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, p. 17.
a fire alarm rang...his brother, Willie: Robert W. McBride, Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1926), pp. 2930, 4446 (quotes pp. 4445); Star, February 11, 1864; Daily Morning Chronicle, Washington, D.C., February 11, 1864.
A coachman...setting the fire: Star, February 11, 1864; JGN to JH, February 10, 1864, in Nicolay, With Lincoln in the White House, p. 126.
instructed him to consult..."have it rebuilt": Commissioner B. B. French to John H. Rice, February 11, 1863, pp. 29596, Vol. 14, reel 7, M371, RG 42, DNA (quote); Star, February 11, 1864.
"carefully veiled...a hopeless one": McClure, Abraham Lincoln and Men of War-Times, p. 136.
Friends of Chase...biographical sketch: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 358.
"no matter how...flimsy political trick": William Orton to SPC, January 6, 1864, in Chase Papers, Vol. IV, p. 247.
"malignant denunciations": SPC to AL, January 13, 1864, reel 30, Chase Papers.
twenty-five long letters...inspirational book: Chase"s series of autobiographical letters to John T. Trowbridge began on December 27, 1863, and ended on March 22, 1864, see Chase Papers; [John T. Trowbridge], The Ferry-Boy and the Financier, by a Contributor to the "Atlantic" (Boston: Walker, Wise, & Co., 1864).
An excerpt appeared: J. T. Trowbridge, "The First Visit to Washington," Atlantic Monthly 13 (April 1864), pp. 44857.
"So far...otherwise than I have": SPC to J. W. Hartwell, February 2, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.
"I think of you...you are-where?": SPC to Charlotte S. Eastman, February 1, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.
Susan Walker..."bluestocking": Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 97 (quote), 20304.
"I wish you could come...you enough": SPC to Susan Walker, January 23, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.
the public announcement...held a large interest: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 357, 35960; Blue, Salmon P. Chase, p. 222.
"eating a man"s bread...the same time": David Davis, quoted in King, Lincoln"s Manager, p. 213.
Chase busied himself lining up support: Hart, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 30910.
"gratified...should he be reelected": SPC to Flamen Ball, February 2, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.
"lamented the...distinct feeler": Entry for February 3, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 52021.
"immeasurably"...to any other candidate: Entry for March 22, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 350.
"fair plump lady...altogether the advantage": Entry for February 19, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 528.
the Pomeroy Committee..."available candidate": "The Pomeroy Circular," quoted in Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, pp. 499500.
Pomeroy circular was leaked to the press: J. M. Winch.e.l.l, quoted in NYT, September 15, 1874.
"No sensible man...if it killed me": David Davis, quoted in King, Lincoln"s Manager, p. 215.
"had no knowledge...entire confidence": SPC to AL, February 22, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
the circular"s author..."would sustain": J. M. Winch.e.l.l, quoted in NYT, September 15, 1874.
He understood the political..."enemies": Entry for February 13, 1864, in The Diary of Edward Bates, 18591866, p. 333.
acknowledged receipt..."time to do so": AL to SPC, February 23, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.
"Its recoil...than Lincoln": Entry for February 22, 1864, Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), p. 529.
"It is unworthy...of this movement": NYT, February 24, 1864.
the effect of the circular...Chase"s prospects: JGN to TB, February 28, 1864, container 3, Nicolay Papers.
In state after state...Lincoln"s renomination: NYT, February 24, 1864; Fitz Henry Warren to TW, March 25, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
Pomeroy"s home state...support for Lincoln: W. W. H. Lawrence to Abel C. Wilder and James H. Lane, February 15, 1864, Lincoln Papers.
the "long list...degree with Abraham Lincoln": NYT, February 29, 1864.
Harper"s Weekly..."had been blinded": Harper"s Weekly, March 5, 1864, p. 146.
"The ma.s.ses...earnest and honest": Entry for January 3, 1864, in Gurowski, Diary: 1863"64"65, p. 60.
The fatal blow: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 361.