Letter from Albert T. Patrick to Gen. H.B. Stoddard, New York, August 26, 1903 [Digital Version]

Bibliographic Information

Patrick, Albert T., Letter from Albert T. Patrick to Gen. H.B. Stoddard, New York, August 26, 1903 (August 26, 1903)

File description (Bibliographic Info)Encoding description (Editorial Principles)Profile description (Subject Terms)
Title: Letter from Albert T. Patrick to Gen. H.B. Stoddard, New York, August 26, 1903 [Digital Version]
Funding from: Funding for the creation of this digitized text is provided by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Author: Patrick, Albert T.
Statements of responsibility:
  • Creation of digital images: Center for Digital Scholarship, Rice University
  • Creation of transcription: Lily Elise McKeage, Student Researcher, Humanities Research Center
  • Conversion to TEI-conformant markup: Lily Elise McKeage, Student Researcher, Humanities Research Center
  • Parsing and proofing: Humanities Research Center and Fondren Library, Rice University
  • Subject analysis and assignment of taxonomy terms: Robert Estep
Publisher: Rice University, Houston, Texas
Publication date: 2010-06-07
Identifier: aa00078
Availability: This digital text is publicly available via the Americas Digital Archive through the following Creative Commons attribution license: “You are free: to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work; to make derivative works; to make commercial use of the work. Under the following conditions: By Attribution. You must give the original author credit. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.”
Notes:
Digitization: Page images of the original document are included. Images exist as archived TIFF files, JPEG versions for general use, and thumbnail GIFs.
Provenance: Gifts of Mr. and Mrs. James Lanier Britton, 1971.
Description: A social letter to Gen. Stoddard in which Albert T. Patrick claims innocence in the murder of William Marsh Rice and confidence that the Court of Appeals would overturn Patrick's guilty verdict, allowing him to carry out the wishes stated in the 1900 will. This will was proven in court by Capt. James A. Baker to be a fraud. Handwritten.
Source(s): Patrick, Albert T., Letter from Albert T. Patrick to Gen. H.B. Stoddard, New York, August 26, 1903 (August 26, 1903)
Source Identifier: Britton Collection of Early Texas and U.S. Civil War documents, 1597-1903, MS 009, Box 1 folder 17, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.
Description of the project: This digitized text is part of the Our Americas Archive Partnership (OAAP) project.
Editorial practices
This text has been encoded based on recommendations from Level 4 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines. Any comments on editorial decisions for this document are included in footnotes within the document with the author of the note indicated. All digitized texts have been verified against the original document. Quotation marks have been retained. For printed documents: Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved. No corrections or normalizations have been made, except that hyphenated, non-compound words that appear at the end of lines have been closed up to facilitate searching and retrieval. For manuscript documents: Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved. We have recorded normalizations using the reg element to facilitate searchability, but these normalizations may not be visible in the reading version of this electronic text
Languages used in the text: English
Text classification
Keywords: Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
  • Correspondence
Keywords: Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Patrick, Albert T.--Correspondence
  • Stoddard, Henry Bates, 1840-1925--Correspondence
  • Rice, William Marsh, 1816-1900--Will
  • Patrick, Albert T.--Trials, litigation, etc.
  • Murder--New York (State)--New York
  • Judicial error
Keywords: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
  • United States (nation)

1

Dear General:

I am
gratified to have
you call upon me and
am very sorry I cannot
have the pleasure of
seeing you.

I am very comfort-
ableRegularized:comfortable here in a roomy
well lighted and ven
tilatedRegularized:ventilated
 apartment and
have everything one can
wish.

I have no doubt that
the court of appeals will
reverse the conviction
which was procured
by fraud and that I will
be liberated and also that
I will succeed in
probating the 1900 will

2

and carry out the
trust reposed upon
and in me by Mr.
Rice.

With best regards to
my enquiring friends
in Texas, I am
Yours Sincerely
A.T. Patrick
Ossining, N.Y.
Aug 26, 1903
To
Gen.General H.B. Stoddard I will be glad to have
you call on Mrs.
Patrick at 316 W.
58th St, New York City

[Note:
520
86
436

White

Convicted murderer of Rice

84
36
120]1
1.
[Transcriber's Note: Marginalia is printed in pencil by later annotators, not the author. The sheet is folded lengthwise; these notes appear on left side.]
↵

Rice University
Date: 2010-06-07
Available through the Creative Commons Attribution license