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Lengthy letter from John Wilkes Booth...
Lengthy letter from John Wilkes Booth...
Item # 703872
April 24, 1865
WORCESTER DAILY SPY, Massachusetts, April 24, 1865
The prime content is what takes over a full column on the front page being a detailed letter signed in type by: J. Wilkes Booth, headed: "Letter of John Wilkes Booth" "Confesses That He Was Engaged In A Plot to Capture and Carry Off The President" "His Participation in the Execution of John Brown" "A Secession Rhapsody".
The letter begins: "...Right or wrong, God judge me, not man. For be my motive good or bad, of one thing I am sure, the lasting condemnation of the north...".
Content inside includes: "The Assassins--One Hundred Thousand Dollars Reward" and: "Exciting News From Reading--Booth Supposed To Be Caught".
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, weakness at the vertical & horizontal folds of the front leaf required archival repairs, with mine loss at the fold juncture. Fortunately not close to the Booth letter, but some effect to the page 2 article. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.
Category: The Civil War
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