did you know that during the civil war, oliver wendell holmes wrote an extra verse to this melody?de. okay how does frances scott key get involved? first of all it's interesting, not only do we see a picture of his mother-in-law, he was born in 1779 which seems to be a year of publication. in england. it says poems of the late frances scott key. he certainly was a poet, he was gentleman poet. if you go through this biography written just after his death, you'll read lots of poems about friends and family, domestic poet poetry, but something got him going in 1805. in 1805 he went to a dinner. the tripolitan wars. a big dinner was being thrown for sfooechb-either someone asked frances scott key or he came up with the idea that everyone's singing, adams and liberty. i'll write one for deindicator, and that's what he did. i draw your attention to the third verse. ♪ and pale beams the crescent it's splendor obscured by the star spangled flag of our nation ♪ ♪ 1805, nine years before ft. mchenry. ♪ the ter binned heads bowed to its terrible glare and now mixed with the olive the laurel s

when oliver wendell holmes presented a paper that suggested maybe they should wash, the president of a major medical college said sir, i'm a gentleman, and a gentleman's hands are clean. so this is the likely origin of her child bed fever. she died within days, within weeks robert is looking for a new wife. he eventually marries betsy humphreys who has eight children before slipping mercifully into menopause. [ laughter ] now, some i think have tried to claim that this is two families. that there's a first iteration of todds and a second iteration of todds. i think that is an enormous mistake. in this era, it was all too common for a woman to die in childbirth and a widower always remarried, especially if he had six children. this is fairly common for a family in that period. so i think we need to do them the honor of reading their own letters. they don't use half brother, half sister, stepbrother, stepsister. that language is not used by them or anyone else in referring to them. it's clear they understand themselves and were understood by the rest of the country as one family. so it