Yet another ebay item

[Laurie Verge]

Blaine Houmes makes a correction: "My mistake. I now recall they had been through Risvold's hands at some point, although they weren't listed in the auction of his material. He was a real Hoover vacuum, primarily postal material and ephemera."

I met Mr. Risvold one time when he came to Surratt House with his good friend, James O. Hall. Richard Sloan may correct me on this, but I believe that Floyd Risvold bought the "lost confession" of George Atzerodt after Joan Chaconas discovered it again in Doster's papers, which were still in the hands of the family. We're not sure what happened to that confession when Floyd's estate was settled.