Miss Porterfield meets Booth

[RJNorton]

Interesting story, Bill. I wonder if he included the word 'tyrannis' in the letter he wrote and gave to John Mathews (which Mathews burned). That might explain why he was concerned with spelling.

I have seen portions of Miss Porterfield's story in a few books including Tom Goodrich's The Darkest Dawn. There is at least one item in her full story that makes me a little suspect - he tells Miss Porterfield that he was awakened in the morning by a man whose name she recalled as Surratt. I think the evidence is pretty solid that John Surratt was not in Washington on the 13th.