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Sanford Bates Correspondence from Ruth Baker
No full textA letter addressed to Sanford Bates from Ruth Baker concerning the first meeting of the Correctional Service Federation in which Bates was elected to the Board of Directors
Sanford Bates Correspondence to Ruth Collins
No full textA letter addressed to Ruth Collins from Sanford Bates in thanks for her hospitality
Sanford Bates Correspondence from Ruth Collins
No full textA letter addressed to Sanford Bates from Ruth Collins about Bernice Quimby
Sanford Bates Correspondence from Ruth Brown McCoy
No full textA letter addressed to Sanford and Helen Bates from Ruth Brown McCoy
Sanford Bates Correspondence from Ruth Cavan
No full textA letter addressed to Sanford Bates from Ruth Cavan requesting permission to quote from "Prisons and Beyond"
Sanford Bates Correspondence to Ruth Cavan
No full textA letter addressed to Ruth Cavan from Sanford Bates granting permission to quote "Prisons and Beyond" and asking for a copy of the book she is writing
Schubert Songs by Kosegarten and Goethe (Dogstar DS001) Ian Partridge, Jennifer Bates, Ruth Peel 2000
No full textIncluding the only recording of Schubert’s first song-cycl
Sanford Bates Correspondence from Bayard Schieffalin
No full textA letter addressed to Sanford Bates from Bayard Schieffalin concerning a Clemency Board meeting. Two copies of a travel invitation from J. F. Ruth
Wilson, Ruth Rowe oral history interview
No full textRuth Rowe was born in Waterville, Maine on June 6, 1914. Her parents were Hope [Chandler] and Harry Rowe. Hope was a housewife and Harry was the dean of Bates College. The family moved to Lewiston when Ruth was very young. She attended Lewiston public schools, graduating from Lewiston High School in 1932. She then went to Bates College, where she was active in the YWCA, debating, and student government. She majored in sociology and economics, and took several biology classes. She graduated from Bates in 1936, the same year as Edmund Muskie. She married Val Wilson, a Bates graduate, and moved across the country while he worked as a college administrator. In 1956, they invited Ed Muskie to speak at Skidmore College where Val was president. She eventually returned to Lewiston and became editor of the Bates Magazine. At the time of the interview, she edited the class notes section of the Bates Magazine, and remains active at Bates
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
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