Dr. Rufus C. Burleson to McArdle, October 31, 1887
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Handbook of Texas article on Rufus C. Burleson
Oct 31 1887
Prof. H. A. McArdle
Dear Friend
Your criticisms on
the likeness of Gen Burleson are emi-
nently just. The defects arose not
only from the failure of the artist
but from the difficulties of their
task. The truth is that grand old
hero of a [some] 30 battles had such a con-
tempt for all the tricks and artifice
that little souls rise to magnify them
selves he never had a likeness taken
of himself. One day his loving
daughters caught him in San Marcos
in his every day farm suit and by
entreaties forced him into a picture
gallery of 1850 and had a poor like-
ness taken. After his death the Senate
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