Booth in Boston April 1865

[JMadonna]

According to Loux, Booth met with John McCullough at the Metropolitan Hotel in New York and talked about a possible summer engagement in Montreal on April 2. Loux's source for this is a June 21, 1865 letter from McCullough to John T. Ford located in the Ford papers. Do you think it's possible that McCullough could've persuaded Booth to go to Montreal for a quick engagement with Booth then returning to New York because of preexisting plans to travel to Boston with his female companion? It's the only explanation I can think of to explain the circuitous route if he did go to Montreal. Does anybody know what McCullough's letter actually says?

I also would like to know what the letter said. I do know that McCullough played a summer engagement in Montreal in 1865.