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8 p. 260 Ruggles Booth shot at
Chicago April 27th/79
Dear Jervy
For some time I have been trying to write to you but failed for want of matter, now I have something to tell---but already the papers have informed you of all that I do know concerning my wonderful escape, and I can but assure you of our safety and good health after such a shock as you may well imagine ours to have been. We were all terribly ‘shook’
but thank God! no further bad results have ensued. Mary is all right again, & I am only occassionally scared, when I recall the horrible scene. It was really horrible! Imagine me---made up ghostly white---as the dying Richard, contemplating the miseries of life; in a dark dungeon; waiting the death which came so frightfully near reality. I tell you Jervy, none of my
many escapes from violent death (I think I’ve had a dozen!) ever impressed me so keenly with the sense of life’s uncertainty & the great goodness of Almighty God! Painful as the experience has been I hope I may never lose remembrance of it, but retain it as a check and guide through the rest of my journey.
I sent you a paper a day or two after the occurrence, it contained all the knowledge that
can be extorted from the lunatic. The case will be up this week and I sincerely hope that he will be put out of reach of harm to others or himself.
I have a great many letters to write---all on this topic, and therefore you will not be mad at this unsatisfactory and hasty scrawl. I hope to see you in three weeks, when I will give you all I shall then have gleaned of this affair. Our loves to you & yours
Edwin