WASHINGTON A cache of 3,000 letters, newspaper clippings, 19thcentury playbills and playbooks, photographs of 19th century actorsand other papers of John Thompson Ford - the owner of Ford's Theatrewhen Abraham Lincoln was assassinated - has been donated to theLibrary of Congress.
The collection was hidden away in an old Ford family trunk inCaldwell, Idaho.
The papers give a glimpse of the figures in the assassination -still a major preoccupation of Civil War historians - as well as aclose-up view of theatrical life in the mid-19th century.
John Ford Sollers, himself a drama professor, donated thepapers, which he inherited from his aunt Lizzie Ford, the …
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