Reath, Theodore W. Letter to Mrs. Kenneth Day regarding S.W. Mitchell

REATH, Thomas W. CARBON TYPESCRIPT LETTER, SIGNED IN TYPE. [Philadelphia, circa 1946]. Three page letter on rectos of three leaves, with each leaf measuring 11 x 8.5”, in original mailing envelope addressed to Mrs. Kenneth Day (S. Weir Mitchell’s granddaughter), dated 1946. Reath relates a story told to him by Silas Weir Mitchell in Bermuda, in 1912. Mitchell reputedly described an encounter between his father, John Kearsley Mitchell, and the great actor, Junius Booth, in which the elder Mitchell confronted a drunken Booth on behalf of the mayor of Philadelphia. Booth was apparently disturbing the peace. The confrontation supposedly ended in a brawl, with both Mitchell and Booth tumbling down a flight of stairs.

1946

MSS 2/241-04 Series 1 Box 1 Folder 27