I am sure that I have it right, as there is nothing outside of the dime novel job pamphlet that can prove that anything in the Beale Papers story ever happened- the perilous adventure, Beale staying with Morriss at the Washington Hotel, Beale and company staying at Buford's, Beale's letters to Morriss, the "unknown" author learning to Beale story from Morriss during the "2nd year of the Confederate War", and then contacting Ward as copyright agent in 1884- NOTHING has even been found to collaborate any of this.
It is highly suspect that Ward did not secure the copyright until Buford's wife, Francis, the last possible witness who could confirm or deny Beale's stay, had passed away; AND Ward applied for copyright on borrowed letterhead stationary from his son-in-law with ONLY the works title, NOT the complete manuscript presented to him by the "unknown" author.
After complaints by the families of Witcher, Clay, and Coles on having their ancestors names being used in the dime novel, the unsold copies were destroyed in a fire.
...AND, the Buford children claim to have no family knowledge of the Beale stay at their parents Inn, while Charles W Button, owner of the LYNCHBURG VIRGINIAN newspaper and job print shop where Ward's cousin Sherman was employed as a sub-editor and printed the Beale Papers, stated that John William Sherman wrote the job pamphlet.
Also, in the 1930's, Ward's daughter, Adeline Virginia Ward McVeigh in an interview by Martha Rivers Adams for Lynchburg's THE NEWS & ADVANCE stated that her father was the author of the Beale Papers.
The entire episode of the Beale Papers treasure story which was sold in a very limited local market would have been forgotten but was brought to life in the 1960's by the publishing of THE HART PAPERS that brought about Pauline Innis's involvement with the story by way of George Hart, and her book, GOLD IN THE BLUE RIDGE.
FK, Josh Gates has already done a Beale treasure show, with others who have "solved" the ciphers or had the "key" like Justintime, but, as always, no treasure or evidence that any of this story ever occurred has been found.