(this is a letter written to Robert Ezell, Smithborough, Ga. from James W. Green,Vale Mills, Tn. On March 22 , 1891) Dear Friend, Your kind letter received on the twenty first, I was very glad to hear from you. I am satisfied the roads are bad, I don’t think I ever saw so much rain at this time of year. We haven’t done but very little towards farming up here, been so rainy and wet. I have about one hundred acres of land that lays on Richland creek, it has been under water three times in the last month. Many thanks to you for your kind invitation to visit you this summer, if I can get my business arranged to suit me, I will try to pay you a visit, if I fail to visit you this summer and I ever come to Georgia, I will be sure to come and see you. My father was through a portion of your state during the war, he was under General Joseph Johnson, got wounded near New Hope church, he was in General Bates division when he was shot. He says some of McClellan’s men did it. My father has been suffering for the last week with a bonefellow on his thumb, he was better yesterday. Mr. G.W. Campbell sent a bitch down from Murry county last week and bred her to Hamp. I received Flirt yesterday evening, she is a beauty, fine size. I am more than pleased with her. I was sure she was a good one from what you wrote me. I couldn’t have picked a better looking one myself. You can depend on me giving her a fair trial. I will write you word how she does when I try her. The first time I taken Flash out, I didn’t think she was any account, but the fourth time I taken her out she proved to be a fine hunter. She is a fine strike, but she is a little wearisome on a cold trail. My other dogs get away from her some times, but if you will give her time, she will find a fox too. She is a good stayer, my other dogs, if they strike a trail and it is cold, they circle and strike on ahead, don’t trail as close as Flash. Gordon surpasses any dog I ever owned in one peculiarity, if he struck a trail and some other dog struck at another point, he would go to see if it was better than his, if it was better than his, he would stay, if not, he would return to his, he was always right when you heard him, was never thrown out of the chase from the first I had him in one. My pups are nice, hunts fine after rabbits. My family have got over the measles, didn’t hurt Robert, he is as fat as a little pig, and weights twenty pounds. You are more than welcome to keep the papers I sent you, I will send you another one soon, some good reading in them, good reading on dog diseases, right amusing to read the northern chases, it won’t do to go north of the Ohio river for a dog. I have tried it, if they have any good ones, they kept them, they didn’t send them to me. I close, Truly your friend, Jas. W. Green

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