Harriman, Tennessee,
June 7, 1920.

Mr. R.A. Atkinson,
21 North Liberty St.,
Baltimore, Md.

My dear Mr. Atkinson:- I know you are a very busy man, but
I cannot resist the temptation to send you another
letter, trying to thank you for your very great favor,
in writing your Aunt that I was welcome to your Lane
data.

Mrs. Schleicher sent it to me, and I cannot tell you
the joy I felt when it arrived Saturday.  I would have
written you that day, bur was busy having it copied,
and returned the originals to your Aunt, the same day.
Since that time I have read and re-read the data, and
every time I read it I think I feel a new thrill.  It is
the most wonderfully gotten up data I have ever had the
pleasure of examining, and to think you were good enough
to give it to me!  I know I can never repay you, so I
will just say, thanks a thousand times.

Do you know that Rev. Tidence Lane is accredited with being
a Revolutionary Patriot?  My sisters have papers in the
D.A.R. on his services.  If you would like to have a copy
of this paper I will gladly send it.  My ancestor Lieut.
Isaac Lane married Sarah Russell daughter of Capt. Geo.
Russell and wife Elizabeth, maiden name unknown to me.
Do you know any thing about the family of Agnes Fitzgerald,
wife of Aquilla Lane?  If you do not, and wish it, while
I am trying to get some thing on the allied families, I
will try that too.  I have little hope of getting any
thing on the Bibbin family, as I do not know hwere Tidence
Lane married her.  Certain it is, that nothing can be had
from the Tenn. records, as I have tried every where I know.
Did you try the Colonial records of N.C. for services
for Tidence Lane?  I note that you refer to Vol. 5 of
the N.C. Colonial records, regarding his signing papers &
etc.  If you have not tried this, I will as the Chairman
of the Committee of Claims of the N..C. Society of Colonial
Dames, is a very good friend of mine, and has all the
volumes of the Colonial records, in her possession.  Any
suggestions you may make about further work on the allied
lines will be appreciated, and carried out to the best of
my ability.


Yours very truly,

(Unsigned, but this is only a carbon of the letter and he didn't have space to type his initials.-Transcripationist.)


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