What are you reading now?

[RJNorton]

(01-17-2014 01:04 PM)boswellbaxter Wrote:  I just finished reading Anthony Pitch's "They Have Killed Papa Dead!" Excellent book, except that I was impatient and bought the Kindle version, which I normally don't do for books I use for research, so I will have to get the dead-tree edition as well!

I was looking at Mr. Pitch's book just this morning. In another thread we have been discussing whether or not Laura Keene was really in the State Box cradling the stricken president's head after the shot. Mr. Pitch writes that "William Kent looked on in horror as bloodied brain tissue appeared to ooze from the dying man's wound onto her (Keene's) lap." The source for this is the transcript copy of a letter that is lost. Apparently William Kent wrote a letter to his mother on April 15, 1865, describing what he saw the previous night. Kent family relatives provided a transcript copy of the original letter for Mr. Pitch's use.