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Show FATE'S ODD MIXING OF TWO MESSAGES The well-beloved Daniel Frohman sends me the following interesting information : "The late Leonard Grover, a widely wide-ly known .heatrical manager of the early '70s. was the manager of the theater In Washington in 1SG5 wherein where-in Abraham Lincoln was shot. "He told me the following curious story in connection with that event : "It was the custom of Hie President Presi-dent to senl word to Mr. Grover to say when it would be convenient for him and his family to attend a performance per-formance at Ford's theater. "One day previous to the memorable memor-able tragedy, he drove down Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania avenue and stopped in front of the theater. He tore off a margin from the newspaper in his possession, posses-sion, 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. Grover was negotiating with J. Wilkes Booth for a continuance of his contract 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. Grover Grov-er told me) in looking through an eld trunk -o get letters and material for a book he was writing, he came across Mr. Booth's old letter, folded. Inside the fold of the letter was the I strip of newspaper Lincoln had used to write on." William Lyon Phelps I in Scribner's Magazine. |