CO-OPERATIVE PURCHASING COMMITTEE
---OF THE---
STATE HOSPITALS AND TRAINING SCHOOLS

DR. J. PERCY WADE, CHAIRMAN,           SPRING GROVE STATE HOSPITAL,
DR. F. W. KEATING, SEC'Y & TREAS.,     SPRINGFIELD STATE HOSPITAL,
MR. R. A. ATKINSON, CHIEF CLERK.       CROWNSVILLE STATE HOSPITAL,
 		NO. 7 CLAY STREET      EASTERN SHORE STATE HOSPITAL,
                                       ROSEWOOD STATE TRAINING SCHOOL,
                                       MARYLAND TRAINING SCHOOL FOR BOYS.

				BALTIMORE, MD., June 13th, 1920.

Mr. C. K. Hill,
   Harriman, Tenn.
My dear Mr. Hill:

   I was very pleased to get yours of the 7th inst., and to learn
that my Aunt, Mrs. Geo. J. Schleicher, of Cuero, Texas, had sent you
her Lane genealogical data.  I am glad she did and I told her that
you seemed to be one of the connection who was truly and genuinely
interested.  Heretofore, it has been a simply matter for some one of
the connection to write a postal requesting you to send data that
perhaps never even acknowledge its receipt, and expect you to do all
of this for nothing, after you had probably begged and beseeched them
to give you one little date which they wouldnt take the trouble to do.
This may not appear to you to be the "proper spirit", but if youve
tried to gather data of this sort, then I need not apologize I am sure.
(I must ask you to pardon and over look typographical errors, as I
have hurt one of my fingers badly and find it very hard to write
correctly, as it is all bandaged as the Doctor did it when I hurt it.)

   Now, Mr. Hill, I want to say to you that I stand ready to give you
any information you want.  I have a lot of LANE genealogical data.  I can
not offer to "copy all of it" it would be to(o) great a task and I truly
havent the time, but if there is any special thing you would ask me, I
would look it up and reply to the best of my ability, Or, if you ever
come up this way, I will gladly lay all of my papers before you.

   You must understand that I have not done anything in a genealogical
way for years, and all of my papers are carefully laid away, but they
are accessible, and I will gladly take the time to look up any
particular points you wish to know.

   Now, I did know that (Rev) Tidence Lane was a Revolutionary soldier.
My Aunt, Mrs. Schleicher, and my sister, both are members of the D.A.R.s
on AQUILLA LANE, who was a brother of your ISAAC LANE, but ISAAC LANE
was an officer of distinction, while AQUILLA LANE was only a private.
My Aunt has been so anxious to discover an OFFICER ancestor in her
D.A.R. line.  If you can prove to us that Rev. TIDENCE LANE was a soldier
of any distinction or title, I should be most happy to know it, and in
return for this proof of service and record, I will give you any data
I can to help you.  I would tremendously like to have any information

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you might discover regarding Agness Fitzgerlad (Fitzgerald ?) family.  I have tried in
a feeble way to learn something of them but was never successful.

   When I go home to-day, I shall look through my papers and send you
what data I can on the BIBBINS.  At least I can give you the names and
addresses of the people now living at Whiteburg, Tenn, who sent me
copies of the old Bible and a picture of their old home, etc, etc.  With
this you may be able to discover other things to our mutual interest.

   No, I did not try to N.C. Colonial records for Tidence Lane services,
any further than what I could dig out in what records were on file here
in the Md. Historical Library, of which I have long been a member.

   I shall be most deeply grateful to you for any information you can
give me at any time along matters genealogical on this lines I am
interested in, and stand ready to reciprocate the favor.  I feel rather
badly about my attitude toward your requests in the first place, when
you have shown such a generous spirit, but I did not know that you
were one who was genuinely interested in this matter to the point of
having done some research on your own account, and I just  could not
afford for many reasons to offer to get all the data together "merely
for the asking", but now since we "know and understand each other", I
want to say that I will gladly assist you in any way I can, if you
do not require too much "copying".  In other words if you will at any
time send me a sort of "questionnaire, asking specific questions, I will
answer them to the best of my ability.

					Cordially yours,
					R. A. Atkinson


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