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Your old and good friend,
C.M.
January 7, 1927
Dear Dutton:
Got your welcome letter in November.
Have been unable to write owing to an injured arm and bad eyesight, stenographers here being few and very busy. expected to write by dictation when I went to New Orleans, but have not been able to go.
All are well. I am all right except as to the cataracts.
Will write you again before long.
Your old friend,
C. M.
May 21, 1927
My dear Dutton,
I received a very welcome letter from you last fall and had to put off answering for the want of stenographer, as
I was nearly blind from the cataracts. The cataract on the left eye was removed by an operation in the hospital at
New Orleans. While I can see to walk I cannot write but shall be able to so however, this summer. It escapes my mind that, had not answered your letter before going to
New Orleans. Am now using my youngest son as an
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I received a letter from your kinswoman, Ethel Simmons, early in the month. She is still in bad health, though her mother, 89 years of age, is in very good health and is still hearty and strong. She tells me that a boys school in Beloit, Mich has been named for you "The Dutton School" which pleases me very much.
Gilbert (lawyer) spent last week with us, his station being Atlanta. He tells me that he is acquainted with a number of officers who are members of your church and that all of them know your story and are much interested in the story of our friendship. To think of it! We parted on the dock forty- one years ago, less two months -- nearly fifty since we parted at Memphis!
I hope that you are still in good health and able to continue your noble work.
With affectionate regards, your old and good friend,
Charles Marshall
November 18, 1927
My dear Dutton:
I received a letter from you last winter and replied to it, I think in January at which time my left eye was entirely closed by the cataract and the right eye nearly so.
In March the left eye was operated on at the hospital in New Orleans. It was not until July was the inflammation caused by the operation reduced and then a subsidiary operation was performed and it took another long time to reduce the inflammation from the second operation.
The second operation was not wholly satisfactory and the process of absorption has been very slow but my eye sight has been improving and I can see out of the left eye (the operated eye). The right eye is entirely covered by the cataract and will have to be operated on some time this winter.
Your letter of June 29th came promptly but have not been in shape to reply until recently and then a delay ensued on account of the illness of my stenographer.
I received on November 8th your birthday remembrance as I have received from every year. Quite nice of you to send me these remembrances.
I am quite intimate with the President of St. Stanislaus
College here which was established in Bay St. Louis in 1854 and is quite a flourishing institution with a very creditable college building constructed of brick. This college is conducted by the Order of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, a teaching Order of the Catholic Church. the President, Brother Peter, (James Hughes of Indianapolis,
Indiana) knows your history accurately. He was much interested when I told the story of our acquaintance and friendship before you entered the Church.
Your story is well know throughout the United States.
Some Catholic officers undertook to tell my son Gilbert,
(the Major) your history, when they were surprised by
Gilbert telling them that he knew it already and that you and I were intimate friends when young men and that correspondence was had between us from the time you went to Hawaii to the present time. Gilbert tells me that he perceived that his prestige was raised in the minds of the officers by this history!
When you write me again tell me about your eyes. You have not referred to them in your last letters and write soon. I presume that your Honolulu papers have contained full account of the terrible floods of New England. It was quite a surprise to us. We thought that New England was exempt from such visitations and the idea that all the vicissitudes of life had reached a basis of compromise in
New England and that extraordinary things did not occur there. I have visited New England twice and liked the people very much. I dwell on New England as I am aware that you are a native of Vermont.
Your good friend,
Charles Marshall
November 26, 1927
Dear Dutton:
Your letter of November 8th with one from Healy of St.
Louis was received during the past week. I have ordered the Sunday Visitor of the days mentioned and in the next letter I will have something to say about what I find in the numbers.
I do not recall Healy.
I received today the newspapers sent by you and Mrs. M. has read to me the interesting parts particularly the marked articles which I listened to with great interest.
You mentioned my letter of May 21st. That letter was written by my youngest son Geoffrey who was here on a visit.
Geoffrey is a Captain in the regular Army and is stationed at Edgewood, Maryland. We are quite proud of
Geoffrey. He was a graduate of the Louisiana State
University - post graduate and was awarded the Harvard scholarship where he was again graduated with the M.A. degree. He practiced law for several years after he left
Harvard. When the war started, he listed in the regular army of artillery. He went to France where he was made a Captain and upon his return to the United States he continued as Captain instead of dropping back to lieutenancy.
Well he is the one who wrote the letter to you in my name and signed my name. In May I could not see the desk at which he was writing.
Your good friend,
Charles Marshall
Charles Marshall died in 1928.
Marshall, Don, Son of Col. Carl Marshall.
Marshall, Ella Raye m Rody, Herbert D. 6-18-1941 (PC&C)
Marshall, Gilbert. Measurer, BWYC, (SCE 5 Sep 1903 pg 6)
Marshall, Lillian Chapman, 91, Cremated 11 Jan 1982 (CEC)
Marshall, Mrs. M., of Shady Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa., and her brother, Mr. P. Price of Beaver Co., Pa., accompanied by their lovely nieces and nephews of the Crescent City, Miss Nettie Price, Mrs. Robert Price, Mr. Walter Price and last but not least in sweetness and beauty, was Miss Sallie Price who promises to lend her presence for some time to the Bay breezes, was seen on the streets of our sea side town last week. Mrs. Marshall intends spending the coming winter at the Bay and will purchase one of the many beautiful Bay homes. (SCE 05/13/1893)