The letter waiting for TJB at the Franklin, MO postoffice was picked up by TJB when he passed through going to and from Sante Fe. Pauline Innis and her husband Admiral Walter Innis searched extensively for the letter. (TJB already picked up the letter if they had checked on later editions of the newspapers.
There was a letter mentioned by Claudine Fulton Ellis in her new book. The letter was left with George Radar Brugh proprietor of the Planter's Hotel in St. Louis, MO and was not to be delivered until June, 1832. George Radar Brugh and his traveling companion were killed at the Blackhorse Tavern in Roanoke by it's proprietor. The Bible containing the letter was left in a dusty attic space for over 100 years until a young girl named Claudine Fulton Ellis found the letter in the 1930's. The letter had on the front cover "Not to opened until June, 1832" and in the bottom right hand corner in fancy but small handwriting was the name "Thomas Jefferson Beale" In the letter was a hand-drawn map to where the treasure was buried and in the back of the Bible was the names of all TJB's associates. The proprietor of the Blackhorse Tavern was TJB's partner and best friend that was wounded by James Pursley (the babbling Mexican) on the first trip to Sante Fe as mentioned by Pauline Innis in her first book published in the 1960's, "Gold in the Blue Ridge" Which incidentally is the book that got me interested in the Beale Treasure Mystery. This letter has been traced from Hollins College in Roanoke, Va to Appalachian University in North Carolina to someone in Washington, D. C. from there the trail ends. Claudine Fulton Ellis did make a copy of the letter and the map and that letter is still out there somewhere in the Roanoke, Va area.
But seriously, are you really not understanding how the name, Buford, is connected with the pamphlet?
And remember, none of this is a matter of life and death. They're all just theories.....
