Edwin Booth: A Biography and Performance History

[RJNorton]

Hi Craig. The reason I asked about Ruggles is because (p. 213) she writes, "As soon as he could afford it Booth had reimbursed the Virginia farmer whose tobacco barn had been burned down during John Wilkes' capture." But Dave and other researchers can find no evidence of this. Ruggles did not footnote her book, so I was curious about where she got her information.