Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-28
An Interesting Letter From
Paris, France

U al los
Many years ago I met on railroad
train travelling with his mother a lad
OF eight or ten years OF age, who IN
terestej me very much. because ne was
so handsome, bright. manly and intelh-
gent AS the years rolled on we had
some acquaintance. never intimate, but
i kept UP with the lad. growing into
manhood. After he moved TO New
York city he wrote to me for some IN
formation as TO what L knew OF Bar
. tow. then CaSs county, when L came
here a grI-bride, in the early SOS.
4 wrote him OF the sympathy 1 felt
for his kindred in those early days in
hearing OF his grandfather Cuylers
tragic death. supposed TO have been
murdered. when he was found corpse
at the foot OF large oak tree. To this
letter my correspondent in Paris al
ludes in the following letter;
~sI CHAMPS ELYsEEs,
PARIS. France, New IS, 1909
Ny Dear Mrs FELTON,: nave just
heard OF the death Of your husband
and / hasten to write and assure you.
that I'm his passing. Georgia has lost
q good man. brave patriot. one who
was worth a whole generation of the
present type OF Democrats at large in
Georgia. l well remember those tur-
bulent far-ofT days when he fought for
my rights in congress, on the hust-
ingS, ana in the press.
in my infancy, / knew his voice,
his brave and broad great brain and
keen pen exposed corruption.
-T now lay on his grave my tribute
for his worth and my gratitude for his
services.
1 received your letter. and I think
also a photo. buC I must have good
one Of you and also OF the Doctor for
my collection hope you will also add
some notes as to the age and ancestry,
etc. etc: and autograph yours, as pre-
scented to- me.
They can be mailed to the address
set down above
1 am so grateful to you for your
letter OF January 1. 1907. and only long
absences. the terrible pressure of mod
err business. has prevented cores
pondence with you more frequently.
thank you so much for the little de-
scripti0n OF my grandraraer. lebanon
Cuyler. i wonder II there is anyone
who can tell me more about him? We
haven't even a single photograph
My dear son. Telamon smith Barton
Cuyler. aged IL months. is fine boy.
yellow hair. blue eyes. and so sturdy
and bright and he speaks French. His
sister speaks French and English.
am soon going to send you pictures
OF US all, and some day we will ALI
meet
Dear Mrs. EeIton. do try to bear with
me until / can tell you something or
what ] am thinking about, so far away
over mere
Last night we went to the huge, gilt
tefing opera 10 see Faust" as IL was
Manuel OF Portugal.
he Is only is. tall. dark and hand
aome ooy. COur Semi-weekly Journal
readers viii remember that his father
was assassinaIed in a carriage some
y time ago. and Manuel. with his mother,
barely escaped the same fate-Mrs.
Felton, >He strobe up the great stairs
and when the glitterfng ballet formed
the flag Of Portugal ne arose in the
state box and bowed again to the thun-
der OF the cheers
I mOtored this summer and visited
the fielos OF bloody Crecy. Edward III,
October IS. 1886.
With only 25.oO0 men he beat 100. 600
F'rench and their allies. John of Lux
emburg. king OF Bohemia. old and
stone blind. charged with his men and
died there monument records his
death. I stood on the site OF the an
cient windmill. on an eminence. from
where King Edward watched The
Black Prince and his men charge. cut.
slash and stab during all that bloody
day, No one has cultivated that hill
since. for $4,000 men. I.2OO knights. so
nOblemen and II princes OF the French
sleep in that wide valley. What a sight
n must have been.
Thence. I went on TO Agincourt where
Nth q
archers beat 5000 French. A cross marks
the spot where the slaughter was great
est
1 ran from Paris to Varennes. where
Louis XVI was captured May p. 1871,
and we followed precisely the same route
taken by that poor. hunted family. and
/ stood in the small upper room of the