Show FATES ODD MIXING OF TWO MESSAGES the well beloved daniel frohmann sends me the following interesting information the late leonard grover a widely known theatrical manager of the early was the manager of the theater in washington in where in abraham lincoln was shot he told me the following curious story in connection with that event it was the custom of the president to send word to mr grover to say when it would be convenient for him and his family to attend a performance for mance at ford s theater one day previous to the memorable tragedy he drove down penn sylvania syl vanla avenue and stopped in front of the theater he tore off a margin from the newspaper in his posses slon and wrote on it that he and his family would be happy to attend the next evening the play was our american cousin about this time mr grower was negotiating with J walkes booth for a continuance of his as an actor in the ford theater company booth wrote mr grover a note on a sheet of paper folded in two sections saying he would accept the renewal mr grover tossed lincoln s script into a receptacle and he also put there mr booth s letter many years afterward mr grov er told me in looking through an old trunk 0 o get letters and material for a beoh he was writing he came across mr booths old letter folded inside the told of the letter was tie strip of newspaper lincoln bad used to write on william lyon in scribners magazine |