Ruggles. Bainbridge and Jett at the River

[Susan Higginbotham]

(02-01-2017 05:40 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(01-31-2017 09:50 PM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  In his book, Arthur Loux also mentions actress Rachel Noah as having talked to Booth in Boston backstage on April 5 at Edwin Booth's performance in Hamlet

Mike Kauffman also mentions this in AB. He writes, "Booth was still in Boston. After dropping Lucy off with friends, he went to see Edwin, who had just begun an engagement in the Boston Theatre. Rehearsals were under way for Hamlet when Booth went backstage and crept up behind actress Rachel Noah. 'Hello, little girl!' he whispered. 'They tell me you've been getting married since I saw you.' He seemed in a playful mood, and Rachel chatted with him while she waited for her cue. She asked when he was going to act again, and he said that he had grown tired of all those months on the road. He might play again, but only in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia."

There is no footnote for this. Thus, I do not know the source used for the reported conversation between Booth and Rachel Noah.

Loux gives Joseph George's "F. Lauriston Bullard as a Lincoln Scholar" as his source. He doesn't give a page number, unfortunately, but it's available here. EDIT: It's on 9-10. Bullard's source was a personal interview with the aged Rachel Noah.

https://open.bu.edu/handle/2144/19785