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05-23-2025, 10:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-23-2025 10:31 PM by observer.)
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John Wilkes Booth last letter
Letter given by Booth to John Mathews on day of Linclon death printed in ..Evening star December 7, 1881 p.6
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/...d-1/seq-6/ John Mathews died January 11, 1905 https://digitalcollections.library.oakla...12ede7.pdf |
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Yesterday, 01:43 AM
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RE: John Wilkes Booth last letter
Matthews destroyed Booth's letter after the assassination. The letter in the article is Matthews' recreation of it based on his memories and Booth's other writings.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/262986...0familiar. |
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