Louis Weichmann

[L Verge]

What a letter! Nothing like telling a man that he's probably going to die soon, so get busy and get me some recognition before that happens -- even if it is just a letter that will help his book sell better.

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I would still love to know what caused Fr. Mulcahy to dislike Weichmann so much - if indeed he did. Fr. Conroy's repeating the story seems to me to be a rather innocent way to link Anderson to the story of Mrs. Surratt at the time that Helen Jones Campbell's sympathetic portrayal of the lady was being published as the first "history" of Surratt in the 20th century (I think that's accurate - someone correct me if I have forgotten something previous other than DeWitt's).

That said, the school teacher in Episcopalian me has suffered long enough. Please use the correct spelling of "altar" boy from now on... Abel was not an altered boy, he was serving at the altar of God.