The Bixby Letter

[RJNorton]

(07-19-2017 01:58 PM)Steve Wrote:  Since nobody has ever found the original letter, if it still exists, we can only speculate what it may have looked like.

Thanks for all the information you posted, Steve. My personal opinion is that Mrs. Bixby simply tossed the letter (maybe even did the same to it that John Mathews did to Booth's letter). I base that on what her descendants said - it seems that Mrs. Bixby could not stand Abraham Lincoln. I think one of her descendants said she was not the type of person who would have appreciated the value of such a letter and most likely just threw it out.