
Atlanta, Ga.
May 4, 1937
Dear Mr. Bobbie,
I am getting along very well and Santa Claus is where she can walk again. I hope when this message reach you it will find you and Mrs. Fannie o.k. I have six prettiest little puppies you ever laid your eyes on. I lost Beauty, a car run over her and killed her dead. I got two saddleback, just like old Streak, only he has more dots on him than old Streak did. I got one like old Slash and one like old Playboy. The two I am going to keep is name Slash and Flash. If you want old Playboy come and get him and you can keep him just as long as you live and you die before I do I want him to be returned back to me. Ask Shed do he want a puppy or two and if he don’t want any see Mr. George Stinson and tell him I will let him has four puppies. If you all do come, after you get to Atlanta, inquire about Jonesboro Rd. and stay on it until you get to a little dirt road name Masdonia Rd. and you turn to your right and stay on it until you get on Gilbert Rd. and then you stay on it until you come to my house. If you come for those dog please come at once, don’t, I have to give them away. I think Playboy will make you a nice fox dog.
P.S. how the rain down there it rain up here so much that people can hardly plant anything. Bye, Bye, from Steve Thurman
(Steve Thurman was a highly respected, black man who owned a farm near Mr. Ezell. They hunted together and exchanged dogs for years, he is believed to have known as much about July hound bloodlines as anybody of that era.)