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[John Wilkes Booth]. Letter with Content About Booth's Death. ...
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[John Wilkes Booth]. Letter with Content About Booth's Death. Four pages of a bifolium, 5" x 8", Princeton; April 28, 1865. A letter by Lewis T. Stevens to his sister Annie, regarding the capture and death of Lincoln's assassin. He writes, in part: "We got the news last evening of the capture and death of Booth, poor fool! He died as he lived and his end was in keeping with the act that ruined him. Murder will out. I was in hopes that they would have caught him alive. But perhaps it is better as it is; a long trial and ultimate execution might have better satisfied one feelings of vengeance; but he has got his desserts and let him be forgotten. I was sorry that father did not succeed in seeing the body of the President; several of my friends here saw it, but I do not think that the moments glance that they obtained gave them must satisfaction..."John Wilkes Booth was tracked to Garret farm, where he was killed on April 26, 1865. After Lincoln's death, his body lay in state in Washington. A funeral train then transported his body back to Springfield, Illinois for burial.
Condition: Flattened mail fold, else very good.
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2019 May 14 Historical Manuscripts Grand Format Auction - Dallas #6210 (go to Auction Home page)
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