WCP3242

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Marshall Texas

5/18-06

My dear Friend

I was on yesterday looking at your picture that you gave to me in 1847. Perhaps you have forgotten when your brother Herbert,² George Silk³ yourself and myself played Hockey at Rusk Cottage [2 words illeg.] for it is long since I was a scholar to your Father.⁴ I am in great health at 77 and you are my senior by 7 or 8 years[.] There cant [sic] be many of us left perhaps none except our two selves. God has blessed [2] 2 me in taking all my property for I was a Captain of Artilery in the lost cause. ^{and lost} [illeg.] I became a Christian solder[sic] in 1890 and am now serving God under a General that never has failed never will. I hope whilst you have been rising in man's estimation and fame that you have not neglected your own precious soul. If you have unfortunately done so let me implore you to do so no longer, for eternity is not very far from either of us. Now may the blessing of God rest upon you and yours is the prayer of your old friend.

Morys Haggar⁵ [signature]