The Bixby Letter

[Steve]

Here is a link to Butler's original account of the Morley-Hay story from his autobiography:

https://archive.org/stream/acrossbusyyea...0/mode/2up

Also, there's an error in the Burlingame article. The letter from G. A. Jackson was dated January 16, 1922, not from 1934:

https://books.google.com/books?id=BidaAA...Jackson%22

So, it predates all the other written accounts which claim Hay told somebody he was the author (and Butler's intimations to William E. Barton that Hay was the author). The 1934 book was a collection of newspaper letters. It looks like Burlingame just copied the citation from Lauriston Bullard's book without reading Jackson's letter in the original 1934 book.