Booths Diary

[GARY POPOLO]

(01-26-2015 08:14 PM)STS Lincolnite Wrote:  Gary, does Winkler in his citation of George Julian's diary say where diary is currently located? I would love to examine it. Julian was from Indiana and that is where I live. Assuming his papers may be kept locally I would drive up to Indianapolis to have a look.

George Julian did write a book/memoir called George Julian: Political Recollections 1840-1872. A free electronic copy is available on archive.org. In my quick scan, I was not able to find any mention of anything akin to accusations of "funny business" related to Lincoln's death.

STS, According to Winkler's book excerpts from Juian's1865 dairy were published in Lincoln Log (March-April1977) and paraphrased in David Balsiger and Charles Sellier's The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977). Now a newspaper reporter named Claude Bowers who wrote The Tragic Era (1929) borrowed the actual diary from Julian's daughter, Grace Julian Clarke. She told Bowers that her father meant to destroy the diary. When Bowers returned the diary to her she burned the parts relating to the civil war and gave the remainder to the Indiana State Library. Sorry to drag out my answer but I wanted to explain how and where the diary ended up at the end of it's journey. I do hope you get to view the actual diary. I would love to hear how you make out. Best of luck.