See the Booth family biography by Titone, Nora, "My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln." New York: Free Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4165-8605-0. The title of the book is taken from Hamlet, 4,4. For 100 consecutive nights between Nov. 26, 1864 and Mar. 22, 1865, Edwin Booth played Hamlet, a feat for which he received the Hamlet Medal on Jan. 22, 1867, a gold ellipse designed by Louis Tiffany. One side of the medal reportedly showed Edwin Booth's head as Hamlet encircled by a skull, snake, crow and two crossed swords. Edwina, the daughter and only child of Edwin and Mary Devlin, stayed with her father for the rest of his life. Her biography is Grossman, Edwina Booth, "Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter and Letters to Her and to his Friends." New York: Century, 1894.
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