Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
Washington, DC
Papers:
ca. 1818-1904, 311 items.
The papers of Edward Bates contain correspondence, a diary, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers reflecting his career in Missouri state politics and the U.S. House of Representatives and as U.S. attorney general. Includes memoranda read to President Lincoln's cabinet, Edward Bates's opinion on the admission of West Virginia into the Union, and his statement entitled "The Present Condition of the Country." Correspondents include C. R. Fritsch, Abraham Lincoln, and William T. Sherman. A finding aid is available in the library.
Papers:
In the William Maxwell Evarts Papers, ca. 1667-1918, 12.6 linear feet.
Correspondents include Edward Bates. A finding aid is available in the library.
Papers:
In the John W. Forney Papers, 1841-1881, 150 items.
Persons represented include Edward Bates.
Papers:
In the Abraham Lincoln Papers, 1774-1948, 48 linear feet.
Correspondents include Edward Bates. A finding aid is available in the library.
Columbia University
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
New York, NY
Papers:
In the Jay Family Papers, 1828-1943, 38.5 linear feet.
Correspondents include Edward Bates. A finding aid is available in the repository.
Papers:
In the Edmund Clarence Stedman Papers, 1840-1960, 120 linear feet.
Correspondents include Edward Bates. A finding aid is available in the repository.
Missouri Historical Society
St. Louis, MO
Papers:
In the Bates Family Papers, 1754-1973, 17 boxes, 22 volumes, and 1 oversize folder.
Persons represented include Edward Bates.
Pennsylvania State University
Special Collections Library, Paterno Library
University Park, PA
Papers:
In the Charlotte Hanes Harding Collection, 1861, 1 letter.
A letter from Edward Bates, Attorney General in Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, to Simon Cameron, Secretary of War, written in 1861. In the letter, Edward Bates expresses the opinion that the Pennsylvania Reserve Regiments should be mustered into the service of the United States.
The Morgan Library
Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts
New York, NY
Papers:
1864, 1 item.
A letter from Edward Bates to Gordon L. Ford.
Virginia Historical Society
Richmond, VA
Papers:
1778-1872, 82 items.
The Edward Bates collection includes letters written by Edward Bates to his wife, Julia Davenport (Coalter) Bates of St. Louis, Mo., from locations in Kentucky and western Virginia while traveling to Congress (with comments on Henry Clay), as a member of the Missouri General Assembly in Jefferson City, Mo., and as U.S. attorney general. Also, contains correspondence with or about Thomas Hart Benton, Edward Everett, Reverdy Johnson, John Randolph of Roanoke, and William Tecumseh Sherman. Also, includes correspondence of Frederick Bates at Detroit, Mich., and St. Louis, Mo., and members of the Bates family at Belmont plantation in Goochland County, Va.; and a diary, 1828, of Caroline Matilda (Bates) Jett (1813-1832) kept on a journey from Northumberland County, Va., to St. Louis, Mo.
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