Bates Family Papers

Bates Family Papers

The Bates family papers comprise 1.3 linear feet of correspondence, diaries, and ephemera documenting the personal and professional lives of three generations of Bates family members and largely centering on materials relating to writer Arlo Bates. 

Arlo Bates letters to Oric Bates, 1909-1914

MSS 0758 Series I.A.

Letters from Natica I. Bates to Oric Bates and Arlo Bates, circa 1913-1916

MSS 0758 Series I.B.

Letters from John C. Bates to Natica I. Bates, 1935-1938

MSS 0758 Series I.C.

Letters to Bates Family, 1881-1915

MSS 0758 Series I.D.

Arlo Bates Diaries, 1879-1917

MSS 0758 Series II

Arlo Bates Literary Ephemera, 1884-1913, undated

MSS 0758 Series III.A.

Oric Bates Ephemera, 1900-1910, undated

MSS 0758 Series III.B.

Natica Inches Bates Ephemera, 1936-1940, undated

MSS 0758 Series III.C.

General Ephemera, 1885-1894, undated

MSS 0758 Series III.D.