Who WAS the author of the BEALE PAPER(S)?

[Old Silver]

LOL! "Source" of my R & I come from DIVERSE places LOCALLY! NO Proof will be provided to YOU! I am satisfied with the info & MORE! 'Nuff said!

Well, as long as you're satisfied.

 

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[ECS]

Well Alright!
Just as it was a local source that mentioned that when V A Witcher (CSA Lt Col, ret) questioned Rowland D Buford concerning if he or his sisters, Margaret and Ann, had any knowledge of Beale's stay at their parents Inn, or if it was discussed as a part of family history.
Admitting that there was NO family mention of Beale, and the last person who could confirm the Beale stay, his mother, Francis, had passed away a year before the publication of the Beale Papers, Buford confronted James Beverly Ward about the Beale story on behalf of Witcher.
...and what became of the remaining unsold copies?
...and why was a 2nd addition never printed?

 

[Rebel - KGC]

I read, heard, etc. that the remaining, unsold copies were used to "feed" fires in pot-bellied stoves in L'burg, since it was a COLD winter; NO need for 2nd edition... heh; ALL those UNSOLD, 1st Editions... BAD "investment"!

 

[ECS]

JB Ward was the AGENT for the author, and got copyright on it in March, 1885 ...

...and the point most missed is that the Beale Papers was written to be sold to the Lynchburg buying public of 1885.
Basic "plausible information" that would have been recognizable to that 1885 buyer provided to draw the reader into the story is juxtaposed with "purposeful discrepancies" as nod to fictional aspect of the "authentic statements" of the presented story narrative.

 

[ECS]

I read, heard, etc. that the remaining, unsold copies were used to "feed" fires in pot-bellied stoves in L'burg, since it was a COLD winter; NO need for 2nd edition... heh; ALL those UNSOLD, 1st Editions... BAD "investment"!

...which leads one to surmise that the buying public of 1885 Lynchburg did not consider the "authentic statements" of the treasure tale to be true, hence the price cut from 50 cents to 10 cents and then to the fires of pot bellied stoves and a Franklin stove or two.

 

[Rebel - KGC]

And then consigned to the FLAMES! Heh... AND! Like a PHOENIX (bird), the "story" has risen up from the ASHES to bewitch us AGAIN!

 

[T hunter 24]

This treasure was checked out in the 1930's nothing was there.

 

[ECS]

There have been many variations of the Beale Perilous adventure treasure story since the 1885 publication of the Beale Papers.
To which do you refer, or are you referring to the Confederate treasure and not Beale?