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The McArdle Scrapbooks Dawn at the Alamo

Reuben M. Potter to McArdle, November 24, 1874

Handbook of Texas article on Reuben M. Potter

Potter to McArdle, November 1874

Fort Wood, N.Y.H. Nov^r 24^th 1874

H.A. McArdle Esq. Independence, Texas

My Dear Sir,

I mailed to you on the 19^th a communication for one of the

newspapers of Texas. Two slight amendments have occurred to me,

which may be inserted, if the paper be still in y^r possession by ma-

king two passages in the middle & one of the later paragraphs

read thus.

-"The star of Indepence appears as the flag of Mexican Liberty

is about to go down forever on the last spot where it ever waved."

-"for the heroes of the Alamo will some day have a fitting monument,

if not on their forgotten grave, at least on their new Thermopylae;

and a native artist will arise to rear it."

I have found the cart[e] de visite which I referred to in my last,

and will send it. I would include it now, if I had it with me.

If you should see Mr. George Seward or any of the Seward family

please give them the sad information that my daughter, now in

Brooklyn, is probably in a fatal decline. I have only the faintest

hope of her recovery.

I am Sir most truly yours

Reuben M. Potter

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Reuben M. Potter to McArdle, November 24, 1874, The McArdle Notebooks, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.