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10-08-2012, 08:45 AM,
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RJNorton
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
You got it, Bill. Mary visited her uncle in Columbia, Missouri, in the summer of 1840. She wrote a letter to her friend, Merce Levering, and included the following:
"If you conclude to settle in Missouri, I will do so too, [there] is one being here, who cannot brook the mention of my return, an agreeable lawyer & grandson of Patrick Henry—what an honor! Shall never survive it—I wish you could see him, the most perfect original I had ever met, my beaux have always been hard bargains at any rate, Uncle and others think, he surpasses his noble ancestor in talents, yet Merce I love him not, & my hand will never be given when my heart is not—"
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10-10-2012, 05:30 PM,
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Rob Wick
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Roger is indeed correct, although the book that the movie was based on doesn't mention any meeting with Booth. I found this in the new biography written about Fonda. Good job, Roger.
Unfortunately, our prize budget is still spent, so you get the thanks of a grateful public.
Best
Rob
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