Show FATES ODD MIXING OF TWO MESSAGES the well tell beloved daniel frohman sends me the tile fou following ovong lote interesting restIng information the late leonard grover a widely A ido known theatrical manager of the early TOs was the manager of the theater in washington in 1803 where in abraham lincoln was shot lie ile told me the folio following ing curious tory story in to connection with thit event it as the custom of the president to end send word to mr grover to say when it would be for him and his family to attend a it performance for mance fit at ford e theater one ono day pre flous to the memorable tragedy tie lie drove down ienn penn sylvanna Byl syl vania vanla a manue denue and stopped in front of the theater he lie tore oft off a margin from the newspaper in ml poses posse 3 slon and wrote on it that he and lit hie family be happy to attend the next evening the play was our american cousin about thie this time mr grover was negotiating with J wilkes booth for a continuance of his con as an actor in the ford theater company booth wrote mr grower groer a note on a sheet of opper piper folded in tu two 0 sect ibris baying saying he would accept the renewal mr grover tossed script into a receptacle and he also put there mr booths letter many years aft afterward ernard mr grov er told me in looking through an old trunk to get letters and material for a book ho he was writing he came across mr booths old letter folded inside the fold of the letter was the strip of 0 newspaper lincoln had used to write on mallam am lyon phelps in scribners magazine |