49. Undated, untitled clipping, Ford’s Theater archives.
50. Washington Daily Morning Chronicle, April 20, 1865.
51. Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, 354.
52. Randall, Mary Lincoln, 391.
53. Kunhardt and Kunhardt, Twenty Days, 257.
54. Marinacci, O Wonderous Singer!, 240.
55. Ibid.
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