Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination

[JMadonna]

(02-08-2014 09:02 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  In American Brutus, regarding the afternoon of April 14, 1865, Mike Kauffman writes:

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George W. Bunker and Henry Merrick were at the desk of the National Hotel when Booth came in. They both noticed how pale he looked, and Bunker asked if he was ill. Booth said he was fine. He asked for a piece of paper, and took it behind the desk to write. Merrick saw him still sitting there a few minutes later, with a confused look on his face.

"Is it 1864 or 1865?" he asked.

"Don't know what year you live in?" Merrick replied.

Booth didn't answer. He just folded up the paper and dropped it into the mailbox."

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What letter is this?

Booth wrote a letter to his mother on April 14, 1865 - “But so goes the world,” he wrote to his mother in apparent resignation , “Might makes right.”