Letter, Mary Batson to Emily Bissell, June 7, 1912
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Letter, Mary Batson to Emily Bissell, June 7, 1912
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A letter from Mary Batson, of Reading, PA, pleading for Emily Bissell to allow a pardon of Batson's cousin, Harvey Brown. Brown, a prisoner in the New Castle County Workhouse, was dying of tuberculosis and appealed for a merciful pardon, but Bissell lobbied against his release, claiming fear of spreading the disease. While Batson does not directly state that she and Brown were African American, the assertion that she would "put him on one of those mountains where hundreds of white people come with [tuberculosis] for treatment" implies as much.
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Author (aut): Batson, Mary
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2 sheets of paper: 12.5 x 20 cm.
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Preferred citation: Letter, Mary Batson to Emily Bissell, June 7, 1912. Delaware Anti-Tuberculosis Society Collection. Box 1, Folder 2. Delaware Historical Society, Wilmington, Delaware. [URL]
Credit line: Courtesy of the Delaware Historical Society.
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Delaware Historical Society, 505 N. Market St., Wilmington DE 19801 302-655-7161 www.dehistory.org
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Letter, Mary Batson to Emily Bissell, June 7, 1912, part 1
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