Private

117 [?] Street
Richmond Va Dec 2nd 1874

My dear Tyler,
Thanks for your kind note and admirable article it carried. I have just forwarded it to Col. S. I had before, written him of your farming disposition to the "Texas & Pacific Railway" & the application for aid. When I see him next week in Washington, I will talk to him in this subject terms of you, & of the value, your service in Washington this winter, would be, in my judgement, to the cause. I take it for granted when he gets there he will declare his plan of campaign & [?] into arrangements accordingly with parties whose ability & influence like your own, could be utilized. It shall not be my fault if satisfactory ones are not proposed to you. But this, [?] news. He has not yet made any with me, but has said, he intended

to do so, at the opening of the Session of Congress & with this in prospect, I have been for more than three months travelling, & writing, & manipulating generally on this time, with little more than actual expenses, for I thought I saw - & still think so - a good thing ahead for myself & other as good or better fellows.
Now [?], therefore
Yours cordially
Burley Tucker
Hon: Robert Tyler
[?] [?] [?]
Montgomery Ma.