The deed was recorded by Jonathan Blake in Franklin Court, Book # 168, Page 164 for a sum of $8 a certain piece of land in Warwick-described in rods rather than acres ( south of the old mill yard and north and west of the Phillips land.
Postcard dated 5/31/88 from Worcester to Bass & Stimpson regarding railway cars. "you must haul cars....the 2 cars to West Fitchburg are wanted quick"
from Charles Baker
A five page photocopy of a transcript from p.1386 in Volume III of Genealogical and Personal Memoirs by William R. Cutter.
The brochure contains a poem written by W.W. Bass and a suggestion that the Santa Fe Route is the most comfortable, enjoyable, and safe route for tourists to Colorado, Arizona, Mexico, or California.
Three handwritten poems: "The Birthday" which begins "Sixteen years have before me rolled/The seventeenth I've met/And may I live as though my soul/Would meet an after life." "Thoughts on Contemplating the Close of Life" which begins "My friends mourn not for me/But rather for yourselves/Mourn not that I am called from thee/To dwell with Christ above." Untitled poem - lines composed upon an address to the scholars by the minister of the town. Poem dated February 1830. Poem begins "May I in future recollect/And ever keep in mind/Those words which were so kindly spoke/To instruct the youthful mind."
A 3 1/2 page letter addressed to Jean [Farwell], May 11th, 1991. Handwriting is hard to read, but it seems to be about family matters and visits to Warwick. Signed "With love, Katherine" [Bass].
Letter and envelope dated March 1888 from Bass to Black, Comm of Pensions, Wash D.C. requesting a pension be given to a Warwick resident. Harwood Proctor served 3 years in the war, has a large family, has heart trouble and deserves a pension. "I remain a copper head" states Bass who at this writing says he is 77 yrs old
A letter is sent to a cousin with a heavy heart because the person who was to accompany the cousin died a week after the trip commenced.
Copy of some records of the Obadiah and Delia Gardiner Bass Family. Contains names, dates of births, dates of death, and dates of marriage. Spanning a period of 81 years, from 1801 to 1882. Also with the family records is an annotated transcript of the document.
Letter and envelope from Quarter Master General's Office in Boston dated 1863
to W.H. Bass, chairman of selectmen.
Contents difficult to read
