The McArdle Notebooks > Dawn at the Alamo
Reuben M. Potter to McArdle, January 30, 1881
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who enjoy the instruction which the best
examples afford. I have no stronger
wish than that your talent may — I will not
say be appreciated, for that I believe it is, in
your own action, — but that it may soon
reap the harvest that appreciation ought
to bring.
I would gladly incur any expense that may be
requisite for getting a photograph copy of my
portrait, but I do not know that you have
at Independence facilities for having the work
done. If not, I can arrange for having a copy
taken after the portrait is sent to Austin—
a copy of imperial size would be preferred.
I am grieved to hear of the illness of my
little namesake, but am consoled to learn
that he is convalescent and trust that he has by this
time perfectly recovered. The same prayer I
make for your own health, which you tell me
is at present impaired. Mine con-
tinues good, my only ailment being a not
very disabling lameness of the left knee, which
it is now probably too late for time to cure;
for time is working both way[s], and now per-
haps the most strongly in the wrong direction.
In fifteen days I shall enter my eightieth
year.
You inquire if Major Bryan is right in his
impression that I had some prominence among
the friends of Texas in Matamoros, meaning I
presume in 1836. I do not like to boast,
but I think I may say that he is correct.
When the Texian prisoners in that city, those cap-
tives of San Patricio and Agua Dulce were
about being [to be] executed, without the three days grace
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Reuben M. Potter to McArdle, January 30, 1881, The McArdle Notebooks, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.