Good Publicity & Interesting Legal Perspective

[Marty L.]

Many thanks to Steve for sending this image of the newspaper that contains the Curtis' letter:

This is just fantastic; thanks so much, Steve. Of course, if anyone knows where the letter itself is, all the better--but for my purposes this'll do! Indeed, this reveals that the final, astonishing paragraph I quote, which has for many decades and in many sources been characterized as part of Curtis's letter to his mother ("The weighing of the brain . . . gave approximate results only, since there had been some loss of brain substance, in consequence of the wound, during the hours of life after the shooting. But the figures, as they were, seemed to show that the brain weight was not above the ordinary for a man of Lincoln's size.") is, alas, *not* in fact from the letter itself--it's what Curtis wrote in 1903! Curtis's description of his walk, and of the dramatic changes on the streets of D.C. that night, is also terrific.