Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln: The Story of a Picture
This memoir by painter Francis Bicknell Carpenter includes observations he made during his time at the White House from February-July 1864, while painting Abraham Lincoln's portrait. We see him in this book of Mr, Carpenter’s to that advantage which perfect unaffectedness and sincerity can never lose. During the time that Mr. Carpenter was making studies for his picture of the President signing the Emancipation Proclamation, he was in daily contact with him,—saw him in consultation with his Cabinet, at play with his children, receiving office-seekers of all kinds, granting many favors to poor and friendless people, snubbing Secession insolence, and bearing patiently much impertinence from every source,—jesting, laughing, lamenting. (summary adapted from The Atlantic, November 1866).
Genre(s): Memoirs
Language: English
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Play 01 | Preface–Chapter VII | Arten |
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Play 02 | Chapters VIII–XV | Arten |
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Play 03 | Chapters XVI–XX | Arten |
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Play 04 | Chapters XXI–XXX | Arten |
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Play 05 | Chapters XXXI–XXXVIII | Arten |
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Play 06 | Chapters XXXIX–XLIV | Cbteddy |
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Play 07 | Chapters XLV–LI | jenno |
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Play 08 | Chapters LII–LV | AnneGowan |
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Play 09 | Chapters LVI–LX | Cbteddy |
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Play 10 | Chapters LXI–LXVII | Cbteddy |
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Play 11 | Chapter LXVIII | Cbteddy |
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Play 12 | Chapters LXIX–LXXIII | JudyS |
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Play 13 | Chapters LXXIV–LXXVI | Steven Warner |
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Play 14 | Chapters LXXVII–LXXVIII | BigManDan |
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Play 15 | Chapters LXXIX–LXXX | JudyS |
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