Harriman, Tennessee,
						    Nov. 29, 1920.

Mr. R. A. Atkinson,
221 N. Liberty St.,
Baltimore, Md.

Dear Mr. Atkinson:-  Your letter of the 29th received, for
which accept my thanks.

I appreciate just how you feel about the matter of giving
Miss Hull a copy of Mrs. Schleicher's Colonial Dames papers,
and I do not think you are a stingy grouch, either.  Mrs.
Landstreet has never written me regarding the matter, but
Miss Hull was working for me trying in the first place to
run down a Rev. War Officer for Mrs. Schleicher.  She did
not find the officer, but encouraged me by saying she thought
she might trace the family of Esther Bibber (Bibbin) wife of
Tidence Lane.  She went over the St. Paul's Parish records
and states that the name is down as Bobby, and I had her
go ahead with the search, hoping to prove some thing in
that line.  The money I had sent her gave out and I was too
busy to write her at the time, but did later sending her
another $15.00.  She seems to think it best to try to estab-
lish the maiden name of Sarah, wife of Richard Lane of Balti-
more County, and is now waiting for instructions from, as to
which line to take up.  What do you think it?  Dr.
Culver wrote saying he could furnish an additional C. D. ancestor
in the Lane line for $15.00, which I sent, but after he
went into the line again he could not find one.  He worked on
the question as to the maiden name of Sarah, wife of
Richard of Balto. Co., but he says he does not think it can be
proven.  He did prove that Christian Toogood married Richard
Lane of Calvert Co., but this Richard was a cousin of our
Richard of Balto. Co., and does us no good.  Truly I do not
know which is the best line to work on, and if you care to
make a suggestion, I will be glad to have it.

I have not, nor shall pass on the C.D. papers you sent me,
without your permission, or instructions to do so.  If Miss
Hull is willing to pay $15.00 for them, I shall send it to you,
as I would have no right to it, whatever.  Right here let me
ask if you have copies of the Bible records taken from the
family Bible of Rev. Tidence Lane?  If so, does the record
say Sarah, daughter of Tidence & Esther Lane married Zacariah
McCubbins?  If you can furnish proof that the Sarah Lane who
married Z. McCubbins was a daughter of Rev. Tidence, I think
Miss Hull will pay almost any reasonable price for it.
Let me hear from you, when you have time.


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