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Letter from Martin W. Bates
No full textThis document is a letter from Martin W. Bates in Dover addressed to William Tharp, Esquire. Bates expresses regret for missing Tharp during his recent visit to Dover. He recounts that he departed Wilmington on the same morning as Tharp but was compelled to stay overnight in Smyrna. In the letter, Bates anticipates that Tharp would need to address certain matters and assures him that their mutual friends remain receptive to various ideas. Bates suggests that the convention question can be delicately approached to avoid offending anyone whose favorable opinion they value. On the reverse side are penciled equations, Tharp's name, and his approximate location near Milford, Delaware. Bates' name appears twice along the bottom and again perpendicular to Tharp's details on the left
Letter from Martin W. Bates
No full textThis document is a letter from Martin W. Bates in Dover addressed to William Tharp, Esquire. Bates expresses regret for missing Tharp during his recent visit to Dover. He recounts that he departed Wilmington on the same morning as Tharp but was compelled to stay overnight in Smyrna. In the letter, Bates anticipates that Tharp would need to address certain matters and assures him that their mutual friends remain receptive to various ideas. Bates suggests that the convention question can be delicately approached to avoid offending anyone whose favorable opinion they value. On the reverse side are penciled equations, Tharp's name, and his approximate location near Milford, Delaware. Bates' name appears twice along the bottom and again perpendicular to Tharp's details on the left
Cassie Martin, Clara Bates Wingfield, and Tommy Zachery, ca. 1940s
No full text(L-r) Cassie Martin, Clara Bates Wingfield, and Tommy Zachery, ca. 1940sCassie Martin, Clara Bates Wingfield, and Tommy Zachery, ca. 1940
Sanford Bates Correspondence from Martin Littlefield
No full textA letter and contract from Martin Littlefield addressed to Sanford Bates
MSS 0098, F0047 - Martin Waltham Bates letter to Joseph Boyd
No full textAutograph letter from Delaware Senator Martin Waltham Bates to Joseph Boyd, complying with his request for an autograph on January 30, 1858.Purchase, March 1992.http://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?mss0098_004
Sanford Bates Correspondence from Martin Littlefield Letter
No full textA letter addressed to Sanford Bates from Martin Littlefield
Martin Waltham Bates
No full textThis negative shows a painting by Ethel Pennewill Brown Leach of Martin Waltham Bates, who was a United States Senator from 1838 to 1848
Martin Waltham Bates
No full textThis negative shows a painting by Ethel Pennewill Brown Leach of Martin Waltham Bates, who was a United States Senator from 1838 to 1848
Bates Letter, 1902
No full textF. L. Bates was an author on the Lincoln assassination and a lawyer. He believed Booth escaped the Garrett Farm barn. In the bulk of this letter Bates explains, at least to his satisfaction, that he has a tintype of a man he believes to be Booth, which can prove his belief about Booth's escape to others.As a young man in Granbury, Texas, Bates met local barkeep John St. Helen, who claimed to be John Wilkes Booth, long a fugitive following his murder of Abraham Lincoln. Bates believed St. Helen's story. Years later when another would-be Booth, David George, committed suicide in Oklahoma, Bates viewed the body and decided it was that of his old acquaintance St. Helen. Bates acquired the corpse and for years he and his heirs exhibited the mummified remains throughout the South. Bates promoted his contention in "Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth," published in 1907, which included a purported confession
Sanford Bates Correspondence from Martin Littlefield Contract Page 1
No full textThe first page of a contract for Sanford Bates' "Essays on Our Penal System"
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