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dc.creatorAffleck, Mary Hunt
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-16T14:12:56Z
dc.date.available2020-09-16T14:12:56Z
dc.date.issued1925-12-04
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/41312
dc.descriptionHandwritten letter to Carter expressing support for Carter's to continue to hold the position of chair of the board of the directors at Texas Technological College. Poem enclosed.
dc.format.medium8.5x11 paper
dc.relationAmon G. Carter Papers (MS 014)
dc.rightsPrior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph
dc.sourceBox 77, Ferguson ("Ma" and "Pa") Controversy 1925-1927 (Clippings) 3 of 7 folder, Item 021
dc.subjectFerguson, Miriam A. "Ma"
dc.subjectFerguson, James E. "Pa"
dc.subjectGovernor of Texas
dc.subjectFort Worth Star-Telegram
dc.titleLetter re: Ma and Pa Ferguson
dc.typeDocument
dc.description.transcriptionBrenham Texas Dec. 4th 1925 Mr. Amon Carter Fort Worth Texas My Dear Sir: I (illegible) you hearty congradulations on your refusal to resign as request of Texas Technological College. I am in love with you right now, in my second (illegible) of three score years and ten. Just "Lay on (illegible) Duff" (and all the rest!) The poetry enclosed for your paper, is ent as my appriciation of your brave and manly course. Very Truly Yours Mary Hunt Affleck Text of Poem: Veiled How oft we realize alas! / That through "the pen the sword surpass"/ It sometimes is a pwerless thing / To trace the songs we fain would sing. / For there are thoughts it cannot reach, / That falter on the lips of speech-- / The (illegible) rings Moses of thier kind, / Shown the Sinai of the mind, / They come in radiant Light inhaled, / But with thier flory faces veiled, / Before the Human clay and clod, / Because they have communed with God. Mary Hunt Affleck Second document enclosed: The Old Meeting Place There was a grey stone building, For amound the years, Where my great grandfather worshiped, with the kentucky's pioneer's. At its alter I was christened. And to womanhood I grew, spending Sabbath's with my parents, In our ancient oaken pew. The peace was called the "Meeting House," And a consecrated man, from his old fashioned pulpit, explained salvation's plan. And the prayerful conregation rose in Christianly accord when he said which hands uplifted, "Let us stand beofre the lord"! Oft when he spoke the sermon--for he used (illegible) written scroll--the people sang together. "Jesus lover of my soul." On perhaps the grey haired leader, with a turning for in peace, (illegible) raise the sweet old music of beloved Amazing Grace. (illegible) in the serants gallery, on each holy Sabbath day, Old Dan the carriage driver, And Black (illegible) rose to pray. With humility they listened, to preaching of the word, and softly in the singingThey humbly "Praise the Lord". I know that ancient Meeting House, Has fallen to decay, And my parents and thier servants, are safe with God today. But i want to hear a sermon. Like i heard in that dear place. and a christian congregation, singing again Amazing Grace! Mary Hunt Affleck


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  • Amon G. Carter, Sr. Collection [19320]
    The Amon G. Carter Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, newspapers, scrapbooks, and artifacts. The papers document the history of Fort Worth and the Southwest, as well as Carter's personal and business interests.

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