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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xxxviii. (search)
Xxxviii.
In March, 1864, Edwin Forrest came to Washington to fulfil an engagement at Ford's Theatre.
It was announced one day that he was to appear that evening in Richelieu.
I was with the President, when Senator Harris of New York came in. After he had finished his business, which was to secure the remittance of the sentence of one of his constituents, who had been imprisoned on what seemed insufficient grounds, I told the President that Forrest was to play Richelieu that evening, and, knowing his tastes, I said it was a play which I thought he would enjoy, for Forrest's representation of it was the most life-like of anything I had ever seen upon thForrest's representation of it was the most life-like of anything I had ever seen upon the stage.
Who wrote the play?
said he. Bulwer, I replied.
Ah!
he rejoined; well, I knew Bulwer wrote novels, but I did not know he was a play-writer also.
It may seem somewhat strange to say, he continued, but I never read an entire novel in my life!
Said Judge Harris, Is it possible?
Yes, returned the President, it is a fac