Barbee Papers

[Bill Richter]

I found out after perusing the on-line materials about the Barbee Collection (I didn't have Betty O's nice links above), making a list of what I wanted to see, and writing the archives Department when I would be there and sending them my list, that everything was set up perfectly when I arrived by plane from Arizona, and my wife (my research assistant) went through what I needed to write Last Confederate Heroes in a week--no wasted time. Georgetown U was one of the best organized and best run archives I have ever been in. They expedited everything and even helped me work around another gentleman who was working in the same boxes I needed. Barbee has a few wild ideas (who doesn't), but if you are interested in the assassination, read the massive manuscript, "Lincoln and Booth." It is a treasure as others have found before me.