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A letter of ours to your brother on the subject of this series must have reached his Club a day or two after he left London, and we understand on application to the Secretary that it had been forwarded to your address. The letter contained a crossed check for 35£ being the balance of our acknowlegement for his contributions to our pages which we intended should have reached him before he started on his ill fated expedition —. Our immediate object in writing to you is to say that with the last No. of “Life in the Far West” which will appear in our Novr. Magazine we purpose having a short notice of your brother — For this purpose we shall feel obliged if you can let us have a memorandum of one or two particulars respecting him, such as date of birth, when he entered the Army, went to America &c. — With every feeling of sympathy I am Sir for self & brother John Blackwood

Hay Ruxton Esqr —