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Mary Devlin Booth corresponds with Emma Cushman regarding her health, exercise, her baby, their life in London, their cottage, her request for news of Boston, and other matters.

Mary Devlin Booth writes to Emma Cushman of news of the baby, a boat race, and Edwin Booth in Paris. Mary states that she "... heard Dickens read the other night and was most sadly disappointed he is certainly overrated."

Mary Devlin Booth shares in her letter to Emma Cushman extensive news about the baby, the theaters and recent performances. She writes that "Ristori, I expect will be here We were fortunate enough to see Le Maitre in his great role of Don Caesar."

Mary Devlin Booth writes an affectionate letter to her friend Emma Cushman mentioning the "constant wear and tear" of New York and Edwin playing Sir Edward Mortimer and Don Caesar.

Mary Devlin Booth's correspondence to Emma Cushman mentions a large party, concerns about her health, and Edwin going to Brooklyn to perform.

Mary Devlin Booth comments to Emma Cushman that: "Last night we went to see J. Wilkes B. for the first time. We were very much pleased by him, but he has a great deal to learn and unlearn."

The administrators of the estate of James Greer of Macon County, Alabama, present for the record an inventory of Greer's property and slaves.

Orville H. Browning signs and dates a card.

Henry Lawrence Burnett corresponds to another Special Judge Advocate regarding the Surratt conviction.

Isaac Bush and his surety Christopher Bush promise to pay $500, payable in money or tobacco, to the State of Kentucky if Isaac does not fulfill his duties as constable. Christopher Bush is the father of Abraham Lincoln's step-mother Sarah and Isaac…

John Wilkes Booth gives Isabel Sumner four photographs of himself in a variety of poses. In this photo Booth wears a black suit under an open grey coat and faces the camera. On the reverse side of the photograph is inscribed in pencil: J. W. Booth.

John Wilkes Booth gives Isabel Sumner four photographs of himself in a variety of poses. In this photo Booth wears a black coat and hat in a pose that has him leaning his left arm against a bannister while facing the camera at his right. Booth…

John Wilkes Booth gives Isabel Sumner four photographs of himself in a variety of poses. In this photo Booth strikes a standing pose facing to his left. On the reverse side of this photograph is the photographer's mark with a cancelled two-cent…

Thomas S. Campbell signs a promissory note in which he promises to pay John T. Stuart $2,070 at ten percent interest on or before February 1, 1862.

William H. Herndon writes a replication for William Campbell in the estate case of Wimple v. Talkington et ux. Clerk P. Wright files the document.

In his own hand, Frank B. Carpenter copies a portion of the poem "Last leaf on the tree" by Oliver Wendell Holmes that Abraham Lincoln once quoted to him.

John Wilkes Booth gives Isabel Sumner four photographs of himself in a variety of poses. In one photo Booth is seated, holding a cane. On the reverse side of this photo Booth writes: "Yours with affection J. Wilkes Booth." A second offers a left side…

On the same day that Edwin Booth dies, W. H. Chamberlin writes to Edwina Booth Grossman recounting a kindness her father did for him ten years earlier. Chamberlin refers to an enclosed clipping, but it is no longer with the letter.

Katharine Chase writes to an unknown Colonel discussing her attempt to authenticate a painting she owns.

In a letter on Treasury Department stationery, Salmon P. Chase writes B.B. French offering him the use of his confidential clerk who will go places for French.

R.W. Bailey on behalf of the New York City Clerk, completes this partially-printed document and City Inspector F.J.A. Boole signs the authorization allowing Peter Relyea, the official undertaker for the City of New York, permission to remove the body…

George Constantine presents Abraham Lincoln with a Greek translation of The Pioneer Boy, and How He Became President by William Makepeace Thayer. This letter is glued to the inside front cover of the book. The book also contains a letter from Thayer…

Less than 3 weeks after he shot Booth in the Garrett barn, Thomas P. (Boston) Corbett writes to his brother Eddy describing his military service, his capture, imprisonment at Andersonville and complains that "I did not get my discharge from the…

Albert J. Daggett writes a letter to Miss Julie Tremen of New York in which Daggett describes the events in Washington on April 11 and the assassination of Lincoln. Daggett was in the audience at Ford's Theatre on that fateful evening. This is one…

David Davis makes notes of evidence or of testimony in John C. Baddeley use Davis, Moody & Co. v Jesse Burke concerning $400 in disputed goods supposed to be delivered by Burke to Baddeley in 1837. Those speaking or attesting during the hearing…