The inner life of Abraham Lincoln

Transcriber’s Note
New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain. It uses the original Title page superimposed on a lightened version of the available cover.
The original book did not have a Table of Contents. Transcriber added the simple one shown below.
CONTENTS
SIX MONTHS AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
BY F. B. CARPENTER.
TWENTY-FOURTH THOUSAND.
NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON, 459 Broome Street. 1868.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867 by Hurd and Houghton, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE. STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.
In offering this volume to the public I shall attempt no apology for its shortcomings, other than to say that its production is the result of the unexpected popularity of the series of articles, relating to the illustrious subject of whom it mainly treats, which were commenced in the New York “Independent” soon after the assassination.
Written in a spirit of enthusiasm and affection, which there has been no effort to disguise, the book is, nevertheless, a simple matter-of-fact record of daily experience and observation, fragmentary, but true , in all essential particulars. There has been no disposition to select from, embellish, or suppress, any portion of the material in my possession. The incidents given were not in any sense isolated exceptions to the daily routine of Mr. Lincoln’s life. My aim has been throughout these pages to portray the man as he was revealed to me, without any attempt at idealization.