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BAY ST. LOUIS DE BRIBED AS FRENCH BY REPUBLICAN GOV. ADELBERT AMES
August ? 1875
Letter of Republican Gov. Adelbert Ames after visiting his home in Bay St. Louis, Kiss., to his vife and children at Bay View, Kass.
August 10, 1875	? from Jackson, Kiss.
,m. . . I am bnck again to Jackson as you see. The weather at Bny St. IDuis vas more oppressive than here. I felt it more because I vas on the street nearly all the time, going to and returning from meals.
The "Bay" is eminently a French town. I met all the people at the hotel and found them a French-speaking people. The private boarding houses and their occupants are French also.
I like the place all the better for it. They are far superior to the whiskey drinking, pistol carrying Anglo-Saxons of this latitude.
The Bay is the best place in the state to live. . . .M
(Copied by K. James Stevens from
"CHRONICLES FROM THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY"*
Family letters of Blanche Butler and Adelbert Ames
?	Married July 21, 1870. Compiled by Blaach Butler Ames, 1935 Vol. II 187^-1899. Privately printed 1957 Page 131)
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