Show two humorists well met A variety of lockes writings during tile the war referred to the great excitement caused by the discovery of flowing oil wells in pennsylvania whereby great and sudden wealth had come to many formerly poor ioor farmers and othera in that region one catch phrase which lincoln especially enjoyed repeating was oils vall ell that ends well lie ile was waa particularly fond of david R locke nasby whom lie he first met in 1858 1 in quincy in 1863 he wrote IL a letter to locke in appreciation of ano of nasbye humorous articles and ended the letter with this inquiry why dont you come to washington and see me moa locke accepted tho the invitation vi and spent a delightful hour with tha ilia president |