Reignolds, Yesterdays with Actors, p. 114.
19
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 8, 1880.
20
Missouri Republican, Jan. 8, 1862; Samples, Lust for Fame, pp. 66–67.
21
Chicago Evening Journal, Jan. 28–31 and Feb. 1, 1862; Chicago Tribune, Jan. 21, 1862.
22
“John Wilkes Booth,” clipping, n.d. [1891], Jerome Howard Shorthand Collection, Manuscripts Division, New York Public Library; Chicago Sunday Chronicle, Oct. 31, 1897; Chicago Tribune, Dec. 21, 1898.
23
Emmett Dedmon, Fabulous Chicago (New York: Random House, 1953), p. 88.
24
Booth to Simonds, Baltimore, Feb. 18, 1862, in Rhodehamel and Taper, “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me,” p. 77.
25
“The ‘Old Drury’ of America,” The Era Almanack, 1874 (London: 1874), p. 40; Sollers, “Ford,” p. 114.
26
Baltimore Sun, Oct. 9, 1860.
27
Baltimore American, June 8, 1893; St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Feb. 20, 1885; “Booth’s Romance,” clipping, n.d., LFFRC; statement of Ford, manuscript [Baltimore, 1880s], Ford Papers, MdHS.
28
Archer, Junius Brutus Booth, p. 198, 215; Phelps, Players of a Century, p. 325.
29
Baltimore Sun, Aug. 6 and Oct. 7, 1906; Boston Sunday Herald, Feb. 26, 1911.
30
Owen Fawcett, diary, Feb. 22, 1862, Fawcett Theatre Collection, Hodges Library, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
31
Ferguson, I Saw Booth Shoot Lincoln, pp. 16–17.
32
Baltimore Sun, Feb. 16–March 8, 1862.
33
Chicago Post, April 16, 1865.
34
Baltimore Sun, March 17. 1906.
35
Nora Titone, My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy (New York: Free Press, 2010), p. 266.
36
Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser, Feb. 24, 1862.
37
Baltimore Maryland News Sheet, March 7, 1862.
38
Baltimore Sun, Feb. 24, 1862.
39
New York Times, May 16, 1886; E. D. Saunders, statement, April 24, 1865, 2/197–98, NA M599.
40
Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 19, 1886.
41
Clipping, n.d., Booth Scrapbook, p. 193, Fawcett Theatre Collection, Hodges Library, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
42
Junius Henri Browne, The Great Metropolis: A Mirror of New York (Hartford: American Publishing, 1869), p. 175, for all Browne quotes.
43
New York Clipper, Aug. 28, 1886; “Wilkes Booth as an Actor,” New York Dramatic News and Society Journal, July 1, 1882; “Samuel Colville” [New York, 1882], biographical clipping file, HTC.
44
Baltimore Sun, Nov. 23, 1899.
45
San Francisco Daily American Flag, April 17, 1875; Sacramento Daily Union, April 17, 1865; John C. Brennan, “John Wilkes Booth’s Enigmatic Brother Joseph,” Maryland Historical Magazine, vol. 78 (Spring 1983), p. 25.
46
Clarke, Booth, pp. 134–38; Brennan, “Booth,” p. 25; San Francisco Bulletin, April 19, 1865; Sacramento Daily Union, April 21, 1865; Philadelphia Illustrated New Age, May 27, 1865.
47
“Wilkes Booth as an Actor” (note 43 above) provides these McCloskey quotations, as well as information on Tilton’s accident. McCloskey confused Tilton with Collier at places. Political argument in McCloskey, “Autobiography of an Old Player,” typed manuscript (1904–5), untitled section, p. 31, courtesy of Jim and Kathy Murphy.
48
New York Herald, March 18, 1862; New York Daily Commercial Advertiser, March 18, 1862.
49
Baltimore Sun, Aug. 6, 1906.
50
New York Daily Commercial Advertiser, March 24, 1862; Boston Journal, Sept. 9, 1893; David Beasley, McKee Rankin and the Heyday of the American Theater (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002), p. 35.
51
T. Allston Brown, A History of the New York Stage, 3 vols. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1903), vol. 1, p. 340, with “groundwork” quote; Chicago Inter Ocean, Aug. 27, 1893. Tilton was back at work within a few days.
52
New York Sunday Mercury, April 5, 1891.
53
New York Mercury, April 9, 1887.
54
William Seymour, “Some Richards I Have Seen,” Theatre Magazine, vol. 32 (June 1920), p. 502.
55
Boston Herald, Jan. 5, 1890.
56
Krone, “Recollections,” p. 223.
57
Winter, Vagrant Memories, p. 169.
58
New York Times, March 19, 1862, and May 3, 1869; Times and Messenger, March 22, 1862; Tribune, March 21, 1862; Evening Express, March 20, April 3, and April 5, 1862; Herald, April 3, 1862; World, March 31, 1862.
59
New York Sunday Mercury, April 5, 1891.
60
Barton Hill, “Personal Recollections of Edwin Booth,” New York Dramatic Mirror, vol. 37 (Christmas issue, 1896), pp. 2–9.
61
New York Sunday Mercury, June 4, 1882; New York Dramatic News, Jan. 26, 1878.
62
New York Herald-Tribune, April 24, 1932.
63
Clipping, n.d., Davis Collection, HRHRC.
64
Clarke, Booth, pp. 77, 80. George L. Stout, a veteran actor and childhood friend of both men, said Edwin was unwilling for John to come to New York. Baltimore American, July 27, 1903.
65
Titone, My Thoughts Be Bloody, p. 261.
66
Reignolds, Yesterdays with Actors, p. 149; William H. Crane, Footprints and Echoes (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1927), p. 19.
67
Kate Ryan, Old Boston Museum Days (Boston: Little, Brown, 1915), pp. 4–12.
68
J. E. Buckingham Sr., Reminiscences and Souvenirs of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Washington, D.C.: Rufus H. Darby, 1894), pp. 47–49; Boston Post, May 17, 1862.
69
Stanwood: “Wilkes Booth,” clipping, n.d. [Boston, ca. 1895], Box 3, John T. Ford Papers, LOC; Boston Evening Transcript, May 13, 1862.
70
Boston Courier, May 31, 1874; New York Clipper, May 24, 1862; Boston Daily Evening Transcript, May 13, 1862.
71
Boston Evening Transcript, May 13, 1862.
72
New York Clipper, May 31, 1862.
73
Clipping, n.d. [Boston, 1862], Booth Files, HTC.
74
Boston Daily Advertiser, May 19, 1862; Boston Evening Transcript, May 15 and 20, 1905. For their thoughts on this review I am indebted to the distinguished critics Dan Sullivan, Michael Feingold, Ernest Schier, Holly Hill, Julius Novick, David Richards, and Elliot Norton.
75
“Notable Players of the Past and Present, No. 13,” New York Clipper, vol. 58 (March 26, 1910); “Recollections of John Wilkes Boothe [sic],” manuscript, n.d. [1880s], Albert G. Porter Papers, Indiana State Library; New York Sunday Mercury, April 5, 1891.
76
Boston Post, May 17, 1862.
77
Booth History Spotlight, no. 21 (Fall 2013), pp. 2–3; St. Paul and Minneapolis Pioneer Press, Feb. 20, 1887, including “muttering” remark, LFFRC; McCloskey, “Autobiography,” untitled section, p. 32; Mahoney and Milius, “House,” pp. 26, Ad-7, HSHC.
78
Priscilla S. Griffith, diary, Feb. 25, 1862, HSHC; OR, ser. 2, vol. 2, p. 332; Alexander B. Stump, “Notes on the Children of J. W. Stump & Their Part in the American Civil War, 1861–65,” typescript [1978–79], copy in author’s possession. The graciousness of Sally Stump and Mary Witt, her daughter, regarding this later documen
t has been most helpful.
79
New York Tribune, May 5 and 12, 1865.
80
Terry Alford, “Wonderful and Mysterious: Edwin Booth’s Search for His Dead Wife,” paper delivered to the 14th Annual Surratt Society Banquet, Fort Lesley J. McNair Officers’ Club, Washington, D.C., May 11, 1990, pp. 7–11.
81
Arch Street Theatre playbill, Feb. 23, 1863, copy courtesy of Abraham Lincoln Bookshop.
82
Fragment of a typescript, n.d., Mahoney Papers, HSHC; Boston Globe, June 7, 1893.
83
Stolp, “Mrs. John Drew,” pp. 276–80, 317.
84
Rose Eytinge, The Memoirs of Rose Eytinge (New York: F. S. Stokes, 1905), pp. 244–45.
85
A. Frank Stull, “Where Famous Actors Learned Their Art,” Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, March 1905, p. 374.
86
Stuart Robson, “Fifty Years of My Life, Part II,” Everybody’s Magazine, vol. 3 (Aug. 1900), pp. 190–91.
87
Booth to Simonds, Philadelphia, March 1 [1863], Princeton University Library.
88
Bonnie G. Satterfield Stowell, “Mrs. John Drew: Nineteenth Century American Theatre Manager” (M.F.A. thesis, Graduate School of the University of Texas at Austin, 1969), pp. 138–39.
89
Brown, History of the American Stage, p. 129; James W. Shettel, “J. Wilkes Booth at School,” New York Dramatic Mirror, Feb. 26, 1916, p. 5.
90
Lewis C. Strang, Famous Actors of the Day in America (Boston: L. C. Page, 1900), pp. 297–303; Springfield (Mass.) Republican, March 31, 1901.
91
Clarke to Anderson [Philadelphia], March 3, 1863, Clarke Letters, MdHS.
92
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, April 15, 1865; Clarke, Booth, pp. 81–82.
93
Eugenie Paul Jefferson, Intimate Recollections of Joseph Jefferson (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1909), p. 248.
94
Philadelphia Press, March 5, 1863; North American Gazette, March 14, 1863. Playhouse described in Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, July 10, 1936.
95
Titone, My Thoughts Be Bloody, p. 288.
96
Booth to Booth, Washington, D.C., Jan. 17, 1865, Princeton University Library.
97
New York Sun, March 17, 1925; Grover, “Lincoln’s Interest in the Theater,” p. 943; Washington Evening Star, January 17, 1867; New York Sunday Mercury, March 21, 1886.
98
Washington Evening Star, April 21, 1862; Alexander Hunter and J. H. Polkinhorn, New National Theater, Washington, D.C.: A Record of Fifty Years (Washington: Polkinhorn, 1885), p. 47; Washington Post, April 17, 1898; National Intelligencer, April 12, 30, May 8 and 9, 1863.
99
Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 19, 1886. May’s statement, April 27, 1865, 4/360–65, NA M599; his testimony, June 24, 1867, Surratt Trial, vol. 1, pp. 270–71; his “The Mark of the Scalpel,” manuscript (1887), pp. 3–5, Manuscript Division, LOC, and published in Records of the Columbia Historical Society, vol. 13 (1910), pp. 52–54; Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 17 (July 18, 1891), pp. 121–23. Operation and date: Washington National Republican, April 17, 1863; testimony of Joseph K. Barnes, May 20, 1865, Benjamin Perley Poore, The Conspiracy Trial for the Murder of the President, 3 vols. (Boston: J. E. Tilton, 1865), vol. 2, p. 60.
100
Allen D. Spiegal, “Dr. John Frederick May and the Identification of John Wilkes Booth’s Body,” Journal of Community Health, vol. 23 (Oct. 1998), pp. 385–86.
101
New York Journal, July 22, 1905; William B. Styple, The Little Bugler: The True Story of a Twelve-Year-Old Boy in the Civil War (Kearney, N.J.: Belle Grove, 1998), p. 138. Thanks to Doug Pokorski.
102
Theatre Magazine, vol. 3 (Dec. 1903), p. 299; “Richelieu in War Time,” clipping, n.d. [1890s], Booth Scrapbook, p. 135, Fawcett Theatre Collection, Hodges Library, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Lexington Herald, Feb. 17, 1909.
103
Terry Alford, “When Booth Gave Lincoln Roses,” speech delivered at 13th Annual Symposium of the Abraham Lincoln Institute, National Archives II, College Park, Md., and accessible at http://www.lincoln-institute.org/symposia/sym2010/videos/alford.htm.
104
Washington Post, May 4, 1913.
105
New York Sun, March 17, 1925; J. T. Ford, “Memoranda and statement of all matters,” n.d. [1865], Ford Papers, MdHS.
106
Chicago Times, April 20, 1865.
107
Chicago Inter Ocean, June 16, 1901.
108
Edgar J. Goodspeed, Funeral Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln (Chicago: The Trustees, 1865), p. 5; David B. Chesebrough, No Sorrow like Our Sorrow: Northern Protestant Ministers and the Assassination of Lincoln (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1994), p. 38.
109
New York Herald, June 27, 1909.
110
Clarke, Booth, pp. 79–80.
CHAPTER 6. LIFE’S FITFUL FEVER
1
Providence Daily Journal, May 30, 1859; Washington National Tribune, Jan. 14, 1904.
2
Archer, Booth, pp. 227, 313; Providence Evening Press, March 18, 1859.
3
Kincaid, John Wilkes Booth, Actor, p. 53; National Police Gazette (New York), April 22, 1865.
4
New York Clipper, March 5, 1859. My appreciation to Joan Murphy, Randy Thomas, and the late Anne Thomas Cantrell.
5
Chicago Daily News, Feb. 11, 1926.
6
Washington Evening Star, June 27, 1891, for Forney quotations.
7
Cincinnati Enquirer, July 6, 1878.
8
Maria Bella Beale interview (1887), Folder 280, Box 5, David Rankin Barbee Papers, Georgetown University Library; Atlanta Journal, Jan. 20, 1924.
9
Townsend, Life, Crime, and Capture, p. 24.
10
Anon. to Booth, n.d., n.p., in Edwards and Steers, The Lincoln Assassination, p. 161.
11
Clara Morris, Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections (New York: McClure, Phillips, 1901), pp. 99–100.
12
New York Mercury, Oct. 12, 1890.
13
New York Sun, March 23, 1918.
14
Blanche Booth to Leslie Traylor, Minneapolis, Minn., May 12, 1925, Folder 5, Box 7, Earl H. Swaim Papers, Georgetown University Library; Newark (N.J.) Sunday Call, Feb. 6, 1939; Mitchell interview in “Lincoln’s Assassination,” clipping [1881?], Assassination File, Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee; Blanche Chapman Ford statement to George S. Bryan (1938), in Bryan, The Great American Myth (New York: Carrick and Evans, 1940), p. 126.
15
Manuscript Society News, vol. 11 (Spring 1990), p. 46.
16
New York Clipper, Sept. 10, 1864, and Sept. 5, 1891.
17
San Francisco Daily Dramatic Chronicle, March 7, 1865.
18
L. L. Stevens, Lives, Crimes, and Confessions of the Assassins (Troy, N.Y.: Daily Times Steam Printing, 1865), p. 22. Compiled from newspaper accounts, interviews, and a fanciful imagination, this volume must be used with care.
19
New York Clipper, Nov. 21, 1863.
20
John P. Simonton, manuscript note on verso of Brown cabinet photograph [n.d., but before 1929], author’s collection.
21
John A. Kennedy, statement, New York, N.Y., April 21, 1865, 3/691, NA M599.
22
F. W. Heath, diary entry of May 1, 1865, Huntington Cairns Papers, Manuscript Division, LOC. Courtesy of my friend Prof. Joan Cashin.
23
Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, July 6, 1878.
24
Starr to Booth, Washington, D.C., Feb. 7, 1865, 2/358–59, NA M599; Portland (Me.) Eastern Argus, May 31, 1865.
25
Rhodehamel and Taper, “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me,” pp. 106–17; Leah L. Nichols-Wellington, History of the Bowdoin School, 1821–1907 (Manchester, N.H.: Ruemely Press, 1912), p. 177; Boston Daily Globe, Nov. 18, 1923.
26
Booth to Booth, New York, March 13, 1865, typescript in Ella Mahoney, “A Faded Letter,” Mahoney Papers, HSHC.
27
Boston Daily Globe, Feb. 17, 1935.
28
A. F. Norcross, “A Child’s Memory of the Boston Theatre,” Theatre Magazine, vol. 43 (May 1926), p. 37.
29
Boston Daily Globe, March 7, 1909; “Sketches of the Assassins,” “A Reminiscence of J. Wilkes Booth,” and other articles in Booth Scrapbook, Folger Shakespeare Library; Townsend, “Crime of Lincoln’s Murder.”
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