117
Philadelphia Press, Dec. 27, 1881, which also has the stories of Booth’s bush-house adventures, his boyhood ambitions, and the student revolt; Baltimore Sun, Sept. 20, 1852.
118
Townsend, Life, Crime, and Capture, p. 20.
119
J. Edward Leithead, “Colonel Prentiss Ingraham,” Dime Novel Round-Up, vol. 32 (Jan.–Feb. 1964), pp. 2–6, 10–14.
120
Philadelphia Press, Dec. 27, 1881.
121
Clarke, Booth, p. 45.
122
Catonsville Times, March 14, 2001; Clarke, Booth, p. 46; Philadelphia Press, Dec. 27, 1881; Announcement for the 10th Annual Session of St. Timothy’s Hall (1853), courtesy of Pep Martin.
123
Wheeling (W. Va.) Register, Sept. 14, 1877; Columbus (Ga.) Daily Enquirer, Sept. 5, 1877; New York Sun, March 28, 1897; Boston Daily Advertiser, Boston Evening Transcript, and Boston Daily Globe, all Sept. 18, 1883; Clarke, Booth, p. 117.
124
Augustus Thomas, The Print of My Remembrance (New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922), p. 75; J. B. Booth Jr. Scrapbook, p. 36, William Seymour Family Collection, Princeton University Library.
125
Clarke, Booth, pp. 85, 117.
126
Clarke, Booth Memorials, p. 148.
127
Clarke, Elder and Younger Booth, pp. 106–7; Archer, Junius Brutus Booth, pp. 215–16; Clarke, Personal Recollections, p. 33.
128
Clarke, Elder and Younger Booth, p. 106; Clarke, Booth Memorials, pp. 153–54.
129
Ella V. Mahoney to Helen C. Milius, Bel Air, Md., Jan. 31, 1939, author’s collection.
130
Kansas City Star, Nov. 8, 1897.
131
Entry of Dec. 11, 1852, Merchants’ Exchange Reading Room Record Books, Arrivals Series, Box 12, Call No. MS 610, MdHS; New York Dramatic News, March 4, 1882.
132
Clarke, Personal Recollections, pp. 33–35.
133
Church register, St. Timothy’s Episcopalian Church, entry for Jan. 23, 1853, examined courtesy of the Rev. W. Terry Sweeney.
134
Clarke, Booth, pp. 127–28.
135
Washington Post, June 8, 1903; New York World, April 26, 1891; G. W. Baird to A. D. Bulman, Washington, D.C., May 1, 1914, in Federal Hill Antiques catalog, issue of Nov. 10, 1997, JOH.
136
John Mathews in George A. Townsend, Katy of Catoctin; or, The Chain-Breakers (1886; rpt. Cambridge, Md.: Tidewater Press, 1959), p. 531.
137
Miller, John Wilkes Booth in the Pennsylvania Oil Region, p. 69.
138
Campbell MacCulloch, “This Man Saw Lincoln Shot,” Good Housekeeping, vol. 84 (Feb. 1927), p. 115.
139
Michael W. Kauffman, American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies (New York: Random House, 2004), p. 92; John T. Ford, statement, Washington, D.C., April 28, 1865, in The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence, ed. William C. Edwards and Edward Steers Jr. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009), p. 527; Lance Gifford (Gifford’s great-great grandson) to author, Baltimore, Md., Nov. 30, 1993.
140
Bel Air Southern Aegis, July 18, 1857.
141
Mahoney and Milius, “House,” p. 82.
142
Mahoney, undated memoir [1940], Mahoney Papers, HCHS; Clarke, Booth, pp. 46–78.
143
Clarke, Booth, pp. 49–50.
144
Clarke, Booth, pp. 71–72; entry for July 30, 1854, in Merchants Exchange Reading Rooms, Arrivals Series, Box 12, Call No. MS 610, MdHS; Washington Post, Jan. 10, 1917.
145
Booth letter, Tudor Hall, August 8, 1854, in Rhodehamel and Taper, “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me,” p. 38.
146
State vs. John Booth, July 31, 1854, Harford County Court Records, HSHC. Congratulations to Alice Williams, who discovered this document, and special thanks to John A. Lupton for his skillful interpretation of it.
147
Rhodehamel and Taper, “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me,” pp. 36–43.
148
Mahoney and Milius, “House,” pt. 1, pp. 2, 66.
149
Townsend, Katy of Catoctin, p. 267.
150
Population of the United States in 1860, Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth Census (Washington: GPO, 1864), p. 215. For context, see David Grimsted, American Mobbing, 1828–1861: Toward the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
151
Booth letter, Tudor Hall, Nov. 12, 1855, in Rhodehamel and Taper, “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me,” p. 43; Asia Booth to Jean Anderson, Tudor Hall, Sept. 10, 1856, Asia Booth Clarke Letters, BCLM Works on Papers Collection, ML 518, Box 37, MdHS.
152
Clarke, Booth, pp. 53, 75–76.
153
Clarke, Booth, pp. 81, 88–89.
154
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 8, 1880.
155
Clarke, Booth, pp. 67–68.
156
Booth History Spotlight, no. 21 (Fall 2013), pp. 2–3; Clarke, Booth, p. 95.
157
Washington Evening Star, March 27, 1897; Baltimore American, Jan. 19, 1896; Edwin M. Royle, “Edwin Booth as I Knew Him,” Harper’s Magazine, vol. 132 (May 1916), p. 845; “Booths, Father and Son,” clipping, n.d. [1893], LFFRC; New York Times, March 19, 1882; William Winter, “Edwin Booth,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, vol. 63 (June 1881), p. 65.
158
Edwin Booth to Nahum Capen, New York, N.Y., July 28, 1881, in Edwin B. Grossman, Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter (New York: Century, 1894), p. 227; “Edwin Booth’s Real Self,” Theatre, vol. 24 (Dec. 1916), p. 360.
159
Clarke, Booth, p. 71.
160
Bel Air Southern Aegis, July 18, 1857.
161
Clarke, Booth, p. 50.
162
Clarke, Booth, pp. 71, 76–77; Baltimore Sun, Aug. 14, 1855.
163
Wilkes-Barre Times, Dec. 19, 1894.
164
Clarke, Booth, pp. 51, 54, 77–78.
CHAPTER 2. THE MUFFIN
1
Townsend, Life, Crime, and Capture, p. 21.
2
Philadelphia Daily News, Aug. 13, 1857.
3
George Alfred Townsend, “The Crime of Lincoln’s Murder,” manuscript (1914), p. 2, author’s collection.
4
New York Clipper, March 26, 1910.
5
Theatre Magazine, vol. 17 (June 1913), p. 180.
6
Boston Daily Advertiser, May 12, 1862; Philadelphia Daily News, April 17, 1865.
7
Boston Evening Transcript, May 9, 1898; Gordon Samples, Lust for Fame: The Stage Career of John Wilkes Booth (Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland, 1982), p. 71.
8
New York Clipper, March 5, 1910.
9
Baltimore Sun, Feb. 10. 1907; Richmond Whig, March 11, 1859.
10
“Muffins,” New York Clipper, Aug. 28, 1859.
11
Cast list in Philadelphia Daily News, Aug. 13, 1857.
12
New York Clipper, Aug. 13, 1859.
13
Philadelphia Public Ledger, Aug. 11, 1857.
14
New York Clipper, April 20, 1861.
15
Philadelphia Daily News, Aug. 15, 1857.
16
Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch, Aug. 16, 1857.
17
Clarke, Booth, p. 78.
18
Townsend, Life, Crime, and Capture, pp. 21–22.
19
Baltimore Sun, June 8, 1893.
20
Samples, Lust for Fame, p. 171.
21
Playbill for Feb. 19, 1858, copy in T. Allston Brown Scrapbook Collection, vol. 2, p. 189, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Townsend, Life, Crime, and Capture, pp. 21–22.
22
Clipping, n.d., McCullough File, Museum of the City of New York.
23
Clipping, “Winning Fame,” [Philadelphia, 1880s?], Booth Files, HTC.
24
Townsend, Life, Crime, and Capture, pp. 21–22; Wilkes-Barre Times, Dec. 19, 1894.
25
Joseph Whitton, Wags of the Stage (Philadelphia: G. H. Rigby, 1902), p. 31.
26
Bruce E. Woodruff, “ ‘Genial’ John McCullough: Actor and Manager” (Ph.D. dissertation, Speech and Dramatic Art, University of Nebraska, 1984), chap. 1.
27
Cincinnati Enquirer, July 2, 1885; New York Dramatic News, Aug. 26, 1882.
28
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, April 15, 1865.
29
“Winning Fame.”
30
Finis L. Bates, Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth, Assassin of President Lincoln (Memphis: Pilcher, 1907), p. 226. Kudos to my student Diana Vera for correctly identifying Bates’s Gay as Gray.
31
Baltimore Sun, Nov. 23, 1899.
32
“Winning Fame.”
33
New York Clipper, Oct. 31, 1857.
34
Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch, Nov. 15, 1857.
35
New York Clipper, March 6, 1858.
36
Clarke, Booth, p. 79.
37
Baltimore Sun, Feb. 10, 1907.
38
Dorothy E. Stolp, “Mrs. John Drew, American Actress-Manager, 1820–1897” (Ph.D. dissertation, Speech, Louisiana State University, 1952), p. 338n.
39
Philadelphia Daily News, Feb. 10, 1858.
40
Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch, April 4, 1858.
41
Manuscript draft of “This One Mad Act,” chap. 19, p. 2, Izola F. Page Collection; Booth to Booth, Baltimore, n.d. [1858], HTC. Philadelphia Daily News, April 17, 1865: “He failed to give any evidence of talent for the stage.”
42
Rosalie Booth to J. B. Booth Jr., Baltimore, July 12, 1858, HRHRC.
43
Guest Register No. 18, entry for July 13, 1858, New-York Historical Society.
44
Clarke to Jean Anderson, April 29, 1860, March 3, 1861, and May 24, 1865, Clarke Letters, MdHS.
45
Clarke, Booth, p. 78.
46
James H. Stoddart, Recollections of a Player (New York: Century, 1902), p. 117. Booth was billed as “Wilks Booth” in Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser, Aug. 27, 1858.
47
Quoted in David Rankin Barbee, “Lincoln and Booth,” p. 237, unpublished manuscript, Folders 821–26, Box 16, Barbee Papers, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University.
48
Charles F. Fuller Jr., “Kunkel and Company at the Marshall Theater Richmond, Virginia, 1856–1861” (M.F.A. thesis, Ohio University Graduate College, 1968), passim. For Booth’s time here, see Deirdre Barber, “A Man of Promise: John Wilkes Booth at Richmond, 1858–1860,” Theatre in the Antebellum South, in Theatre Symposium: A Journal of the Southeastern Theatre Conference, vol. 2 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994), pp. 113–29.
49
Beth A. Kunkel, “The Partnership of Kunkel and Moxley” (Honors History Paper, Northern Virginia Community College, 1992), passim; Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser and Baltimore Sun, both Jan. 26, 1885; Richmond Daily Enquirer, Dec. 17, 1859; New York Clipper, Feb. 16, 1861, and July 12, 1890; Baltimore Sun, July 8, 1890.
50
New York Clipper, Aug. 1, 1857.
51
New York Clipper, Feb. 13, 1858.
52
Quincy Kilby, “Some Newly-Collected Facts about John Wilkes Booth,” typescript, n.d. [ca. 1914], Seymour Collection, Princeton University Library.
53
Photostat of the playbill for Adrienne, Nov. 19, 1858, VRHC, and for De Soto, cited in note 73 below.
54
Boniface interview (1905), Brown Theatrical Scrapbook Collection, vol. 4, Manuscripts Department, Boston Public Library.
55
Samples, Lust for Fame, p. 26.
56
Booth to Booth, Richmond, Sept. 10, 1858, in Rhodehamel and Taper, “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me,” p. 45.
57
Weather data from the journals of Richard Eppes and William F. Wickham in the collections of the Virginia Historical Society, kindly provided me by Frances Pollard.
58
Herbert T. Ezekiel and Gaston Lichtenstein, The History of the Jews of Richmond from 1769 to 1917 (Richmond: Ezekiel, 1917), p. 223; Richmond Dispatch, July 2, 1890.
59
Atlanta Constitution, Dec. 31, 1887. James Beale Wahoske, Mary Bella’s grandson, graciously contributed to my research on his family.
60
Atlanta Journal, Jan. 20, 1924; John B. Clapp and Edwin F. Edgett, Players of the Present (New York: Benj. Bloom, 1971, from the first edition, 1899–1901), pp. 303–4; clipping, “With Players in War Times,” n.d. [Richmond, 1907?], VRHC.
61
“Reminiscences of Samuel Knapp Chester,” an interview conducted Aug. 15, 1902, in the “Alonzo May Dramatic Encyclopedia,” MdHS.
62
“Memorandum of Evidence Against J.W.B./ Statement of Samuel K. Chester,” April 28, 1865, 4/410–11, NA M599.
63
New York Times, March 1, 1869.
64
Booth to Booth, Richmond, Sept. 10, 1858, in Rhodehamel and Taper, “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me,” p. 45.
65
George A. Townsend’s interview with Harry Langdon, clipping, n.d. [1883], LFFRC.
66
Townsend’s Langdon interview, LFFRC; Philadelphia Daily News, April 17, 1865.
67
Kitty Blanchard (Mrs. McKee Rankin), “The News of Lincoln’s Death, Including Two Stories of John Wilkes Booth,” American Magazine, vol. 67 (Jan. 1909), p. 259.
68
Manuscript on stock companies, n.d. [1930?], Seymour Collection, Princeton University Library.
69
William Norris researched Murdoch’s career and kindly furnished text for the play DeSoto.
70
Edmund H. Russell, manuscript biography of Murdoch, pp. 590, 639, James E. Murdoch Collection, HTC.
71
Baltimore Sun, Nov. 25, 1906.
72
Clarke, Booth, p. 79.
73
De Soto, March 21, 1859, original in author’s collection and available in Champ Clark, The Assassination: Death of the President (Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1987), p. 34. Murdoch’s line to Booth is in Gems from George H. Miles (Chicago: J. S. Hyland, 1901), p. 173.
74
New York Mercury, Jan. 15, 1887; Cincinnati Daily Times, Nov. 11, 1868.
75
Russell biography, pp. 351, 1744ff., HTC.
76
Atlanta Constitution, Dec. 31, 1887.
77
Philadelphia Daily News, April 17, 1865.
78
Richmond Whig, Dec. 21, 1858, quoted in Fuller, “Kunkel and Company,” p. 112.
79
Quoted under the date of Oct. 1, 1858, in notes of Edward V. Valentine, Valentine Museum, Richmond.
80
John S. Wise, The End of an Era (New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1965), pp. 93–94.
81
Baltimore American, June 8, 1893.
82
Edward M. Alfriend, “Recollections of John Wilkes Booth,” The Era: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Literature and General Interest, vol. 8 (Oct. 1901), p. 604.
83
Alfriend, “Recollections,” p. 604.
84
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Francis Wilson, John Wilkes Booth: Fact and Fiction of Lincoln’s Assassination (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1929), p. 18.
85
Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America …. A.D. 1860 (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publications, 1860), p. 21.
86
“Reminiscences of John Wilkes Booth in His Theatre Days,” clipping, n.d. [Cincinnati, 1890s], Booth Scrapbook, formerly at Baltimore’s Peale Museum. William errs in dating this incident.
87
Richmond Whig, Oct. 15, 1856, quoted in Fuller, “Kunkel and Company,” p. 78.
88
Frank Fenton, “San Francisco Theater, 1849–1859” (Ph.D. dissertation, English, Stanford University, 1942), pp. 238–39.
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