Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines

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Engraving of Myra Clark Gaines at about age forty Nolan B. Harmon Papers, MSS 134,Archives and Manuscript Dept., Pitts Theology Library, Emory University Colonel Samuel Boyer Davis Courtesy Delaware State Museums, Dover Engraving of Myra Clark Gaines circa 1845, from a photograph by Mathew Brady Courtesy Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Brigadier General (Brevet Major General) Edmund Pendleton Gaines Courtesy Dept. of the Army, U.S. Military History Institute, Carlisle,Pa. Justice James M. Wayne, perhaps Myra Clark Gaines's staunchest supporter on the U.S. Supreme Court Courtesy National Archives, College Park, Md. Justice John Catron of the U.S., Myra Gaines's nemesis on the Supreme Court Courtesy Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville m'BA MEETLKU B£B MOTI1KB. Illustration used as frontispiece for Ann S. Stephen's dime novel Myra: The Child of Adoption, A Romance of Real Life (1860) Courtesy Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, CN Number 10850 Myra at seventy Courtesy Linton Games Robertson ...