Booth's Diary

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Does the Diary Still exist? Can we read all that is left? Are copies available?

If we can find something written in Booth's Diary, that could have been known only to the real Booth, it would prove - for once and for all - that the body on the Garrett Farm porch was JOHN WILKES BOOTH, and all other claims that say he lived on in Texas or Oklahoma, or wherever ! Are wrong.

I have pondered this at many times and have arrived at some weird answers. For example. Maybe Booth tore the page out. Those pages may have bee a "record" of some memorable "Hotel Pass-time", that he had to hide from a later partner. Or maybe her father read it. For example, the Senator whose daughter that was engaged to Booth.

Laurie, Are there copies- of what is left of the Diary,- in the Surratt collection?