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LETTER GIVING SKETCH OF FREDERICK BATES.11
some diversity of style, but generally clear, terse and pungent.
His habits were very retired, perhaps censurable recluse. His friendships few, but strong and abiding. At Detroit, he was intimate with Governor Hull, who had shown him courtesy and kindness, at a time when courtesy and kindness were solid benefits to a young and unpracticed stranger. He never forgot it; never afterwards spoke of that unhappy man without poignant sorrow for his disgraceful fall.
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