Thank you for sending me the volume the Booths—It does not furnish me the picture I wanted—(I am very particular & shall not be satisfied till I get one that fills the bill)—But the volume is more helpful to me (in touches, corrections, guidance &c to my piece) than I can describe—& the reading of all about your father, of absorbing interest—He was a beautiful character.1
Walt WhitmanCorrespondent:
Edwin Thomas Booth
(1833–1893) was an American actor, famous for performing Shakespeare in
the U.S. and Europe, the son of actor Junius Brutus Booth (1796–1852), and
the brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth (1838–1865),
also an actor. He was the owner of Booth's Theatre in New York.