With Malice Toward None

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition    

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John Wilkes Booth enjoyed a successful acting career during Lincoln's time in office. He appeared in theaters from Boston to Washington and as far west as St. Louis, Missouri, and Leavenworth, Kansas. President Lincoln saw Booth in the role of Raphael in The Marble Heart at Ford's Theatre on November 9, 1863. In this letter the actor asks a friend in Boston to send copies of pictures he had taken of himself with cane & black cravat. The same picture was later used on Booths Wanted poster. Unfortunately, many of the letters Booth wrote during his lifetime were destroyed by their owners, who feared being linked to the Lincoln assassination.

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John Wilkes Booth enjoyed a successful acting career during Lincoln's time in office. He appeared in theaters from Boston to Washington and as far west as St. Louis, Missouri, and Leavenworth, Kansas. President Lincoln saw Booth in the role of Raphael in <em>The Marble Heart</em> at Ford's Theatre on November 9, 1863. In this letter the actor asks a friend in Boston to send copies of pictures he had taken of himself with cane & black cravat. The same picture was later used on Booths Wanted poster. Unfortunately, many of the letters Booth wrote during his lifetime were destroyed by their owners, who feared being linked to the Lincoln assassination.