The Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Containing His Letters from Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas Island

Edited by His Daughter Nettie Mudd. Preface by D. Eldridge Monroe. LaPlata MD: Dick Wildes Printing, 1991. Facsimiled reprint of Neal Publication of the 1906 edition. 8vo. 383pp. Green cloth, gilt letters, gilt portrait of Dr. Mudd on front cover. No dj as issued. Fine condition (faint streak to fore-edge of text block). Contains his letters from Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas Island, where he was imprisoned four years for alleged complicity in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, with statements of various individuals, the argument of General Ewing, and "Diary" of John Wilkes Booth. Several illustrations including the folded Michigan Legislature resolution that Dr. Mudd is innocent laid in at rear as issued. Front free endpaper signed by five grand children of Dr. Mudd, dated 1993. Cf: Howes M-871.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 383 pages.