Booth's Mental health

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(07-31-2015 08:43 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Maddie, the only thing I can think of is something I read in Theodore Roscoe's The Web of Conspiracy. Roscoe wrote, "One day (we are told) a woman spy disguised in widow's weeds, heavily veiled, walked into Lincoln's office and tried to poison him with a kiss. Smallpox. The story may be apocryphal, but the President did, in fact, contract a mild case of varioloid."

Hi Roger, do you remember reading a story about peaches and pears injected with poison and sent to the WH during the Civil War? I do, they were said to be a perfectly beautiful basket of fruit that never reached the president or his family because they were found out to be poisonous in the nick of time.

I can't remember where I read this......

I also read about dress shirts infected with smallpox and sent to Lincoln. Maybe MTL didn't like the idea of her husband wearing second hand clothes and tossed out, thus saving his life!