Mudd Info Needed

[Dave Taylor]

When I went on the BERT in September, I had this question on my mind. Since the Mudd House is selling Kauffman's book, I opened it up and asked a gentleman there about the descrepancy. He told me that the bed upstairs is the same one Booth slept in, but that the headboard was not original. I'm not sure about how beds were constructed back then, but wouldn't the headboard of a rope bed be more or less permanently attached to the frame?