One of the most interesting was Louis (Lewis) Joseph Archibald McMillan, McGill M.D., C.M, 1860,³⁹ who was the surgeon aboard the ship Peruvian bound for Liverpool, which numbered among the passengers John Surratt, travelling under the name, McCarty. It was this same McMillan who reported Surratt once his identity had become manifest and landfall reached, eventually leading to John Surratt's arrest.

Another McGill personage to be included in this context, albeit almost a century later, was the famous humorist, essayist, political economist and historian, Stephen Leacock⁴⁰ who, this time, forsook his humorous bent to write in a more serious manner.

Lincoln's death predated Canada's confederation by two years. It comes somewhat as a shock to find that the condolences of the citizens to the north had to be expressed via Sir Frederick William Bruce,⁴¹ the newly appointed British representative in Washington at the express wish of the then Governor General, Lord Monck,⁴² dated at Quebec, April 17, 1865.

The volume titled Message of the President of the United States ... 38^th Congress, Part I contains, among other things, transcriptions of inter-governmental correspondence. That selected for exhibition is from a series of notes passed from Governor-General Monck to the British representative in Washington, Lord Lyons, who in turn was in correspondence with the Secretary of State, William Seward — all over the integrity of the Canadian border. The border, seemingly an innocent division line was important in several respects at this time: it was a line which when crossed was considered sacrosanct for deserters, perhaps — but more so for fugitive slaves mdash; the border — and freedom — was the ultimate goal of the underground railroad. The greatest of the Lincoln interpreters was a Canadian who bore an uncanny likeness to the President. Raymond Hart Massey (1896-1983) was the son of the Massey-Harris Farm Machinery president and brother to Vincent Massey, the first Canadian-born Governor-General (1952-59). In spite of opposition to this foreigner's being selected to portray the beloved American president, the playwright Robert E. Sherwood stayed with his decision and Massey went on to claim fame as theatre's foremost Lincoln interpreter. Noel Coward once quipped that his friend Ray so identified with Lincoln that he was sure the actor would not be happy until someone shot him.

Because this exhibition is library-oriented, it seems fitting that the last item in this catalogue refer to another Lincoln Day celebration — that delivered to the Canadian Club in Ottawa February 12, 1941, by the then Librarian of Congress, the poet and public official, Archibald MacLeish,⁴³ and titled Lincoln in This Day.

Interestingly enough, the title of this year's McGill Lincoln address has a similar temporal theme: Abraham Lincoln's Mission in Peace and War: Yesterday and Today.⁴⁴ Truly Lincoln was and is a man for the ages.