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Kalamazoo House, 



Kalamazoo, Michigan, 



August 18, 1876. 

 J. M. BuLKLEY, Esq., 



Secretary Custer Jfonument Association, 



3Ionro€, 3Iichigan, 



Dear Sir: — I have the pleasure of transmitting to Judge "Wing, 

 through Major R. F. Judson, the net proceeds of my lecture, de- 

 livered in this place on the evening of the sixteenth instant. I de- 

 sire to accompany my gift with an acknowledgment of many 

 courtesies extended by the press and band of this patriotic village. 

 I resume my journey this afternoon and shall speak at Niles, South 

 Bend, and Laporte before the close of the present week. Hoping 

 that your brightest anticipations for the "Monument" may be most 

 fully realized, I remain 



Very sincerely yours, WiLLARD Glazier. 



This letter I preserved, as I wished to have ail the 

 correspondence upon the subject ofthe "Monument ''for 

 future reference. 



©lie QunlireMl) H)at|. 



Dyckman House, 



Paw Paw, Michigan, 



August Nineteenth. 



Had an early breakfast at Kalamazoo. Ordered 

 Paul, and mounting him rodetlirongh the Big Village 

 to take a last look. Before leaving I called upon Major 

 Judson and Colonel F. W. Curtenius. The latter of 

 whom has had a l)rilliant career. Graduating from Ham- 

 ilton College in 1823, he studied law and later went to 

 South America, enlistinu; in the cause of the Brazil- 

 ians. He served tlirough the war with Mexico, was 

 appointed adjutant-general of Mich.igan in 1855, 

 liolding this office until 1861, having received the 

 hio-h title of Senator in 1853 and beino; re-elected to 

 the office in 1867. The Colonel's father was a general 



