Edwin Booth: A Biography and Performance History

[Dave Taylor]

I've emailed Mr. Bloom a couple if times when I was researching the idea of Edwin Booth giving money to the Garretts to reimburse them for their barn. He was very kind and shared part of his manuscript with me. He is in agreement with me that there is no evidence that Edwin ever gave the Garretts any money. He did, however give Richard Baynham Garrett a gift of books when the latter was in seminary school. It was a thank you for sending him part of the lock of hair the Garretts had cut from the head of his dead brother.