WCP3247

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Marshall Texas

9/6—06

My dear Friend

I was indeed glad to receive a letter from you and would have replied but have had some illness myself and my wife is just up from a bad spell of malaria. It has been a cool wet summer and though we are high and dry here and miles from any overflow or swamp land yet the malaria sometimes floats out to us. My wife's fever reached at one time 105º right up to danger point but with God's blessing my prayers and the remedy I used she is well again. Am sorry to hear of poor George Silk¹ if you see him give him my love. You did not mention your brother John² who went to California nor Mr Sims³ and wife.⁴ Have they all passed over ahead of us? The last time I saw Mr Sims he was in business but I dont think doing very well for he [2] 2 could not pay me some borrowed money over [illeg.] some years. Well may God bless them if alive. You spoke of my venturesome life, yes it has been and I enclose to you one story nearly all fact. I am only a crude writer not up to date so after offering it and some others to one or two magazines, I quit.There is so much trash, filth, and immoral writing published in our American magazines and I am sorry to say very little fit to be read in the family circle. I suppose the enclosed crude as it is would not be acceptable in England.

We all liked Jim Harret and he premising nearly every sentence with "Heck I've" My wife nicknamed him which he seemed to take good naturedly. My old Rheumatism is troubling me up again so I can hardly write so with a prayer that God's blessings may rest on you

Your friend | Morys Haggar⁵ [signature]