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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
He got tremendously interested in shovelling trails to the woodpile,
the chicken house, corrals, outdoor toilet, and elsewhere. The ground
froze as hard as flint, to considerable depth, and shut off our water,
so that we had to fall back on the old outhouse, down under the bank.
The next night I found Jimmie outside gazing contentedly across the
moon-lit valley of Lake Creek to where he could see the cows nibbling
at the skunk brush on the far bank, one hundred and fifty yards away -
a night so still and cold and crisp that we could hear them stepping
around in the snow. It was a beautiful night, with the thermometer
at the kitchen door standing at twelve degrees above at the time. Jimmie
was almost daydreaming, drinking in the scene with proper appreciation
- "I have just been thinking, Daddy," he said, "how much of the
beauties of nature you miss by enjoying the comforts of the home."
But this letter is running too long. I must quit this spiritual exercise
and get down to good hard work. Sunday, with us, is still just another
day for labor and hope.
Regards,
Evetts
Philip C. Tucker, III, 2124 13th St. W, Bradenton, Florida, is
still remembered by many of the older members of the Asso-
ciation as one of the outstanding contributors of documentary
material relating to Texas back in the early days of the Associa-
tion's existence. Mr. Tucker then resided in Galveston, and al-
though he has recently passed his 80th birthday, we have
recently been favored with several letters from him which
speak a warm appreciation of the Quarterly and especially
of the way in which the Texas Collection keeps him in touch
with historical activities in the State.
Mr. Tucker writes that he has the feeling that Andrew F.
Muir's "Destiny of Buffalo Bayou" does not give a full and
complete picture of activity along the coastal area, and that
Houston is favored at the expense of Galveston. Mr. Tucker
says that had Galveston not become the metropolis of Texas
and had her port facilities not been developed, Houston, like
several early towns, would have died; and that it was Galveston
which was a concentration point for cotton cargoes and for
storage. Mr. Tucker has appended to his letter extracts of a
letter written from Galveston in 1852 to P. C. Tucker of
Vergennes, Verriopt, his grandfather, who later came to Texas
and practiced m-r ine at Galveston.
[P. C. Tucker, Esq. Galveston, [Texas] Nov. 30th, 1852.
Vergennes, Vermont.]
My dear Sir:
The time which has elapsed since the reception of your letter - now116
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