ABSTRACT
Albert Barnes appreciated and found delight in music, he was an avid and discerning reader, but he took real pleasure in the company of few people—and the number dwindled as he grew older. Somehow the service concluded without any assaults, and Barnes, apparently impressed with Bond’s remarks and perhaps to make amends for his initial discourtesy, insisted that the Lincoln president join him for lunch in Merion. Albert Barnes’s father had lost his right arm fighting in the war that secured the freedom of the boy who would become Horace Mann Bond’s father. Horace Bond, like many others, was the recipient of a carbon copy of excerpts of Barnes’s diatribe at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the spring of 1948. From the collector’s perspective, the key to achieving his goal of creating a viable and enduring alliance with Lincoln was finding someone to head a joint educational effort.
