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my inability to do more for you than throw out the above suggested additional clews, I am, 



Yours truly, 

 1301 Maryland Ave., Baltimore, Mel. DE GRASSE B. FOWLER. 



PLAINFIELD, April 13, 1889. 

 MR. JOSEPH BATTELL, 



Dear Sir : Yours of the yth received. You want to know about the Black Hawk mare. 

 I don't know whom he got her of or what became of her. I recollect her. She was quite 

 a nice little brown mare with bob tail. I think he had her when I got the mare old Ab. 



Yours truly, 



MANNING VERMEULE. 



Pl.AINFIELD, April 22, 1889. 



MR. JOSEPH BATTELL, 



Dear Sir: Yours of the I yth received, and as for the identity of the mare that Marsh 

 had on Long Island, I cannot say, but I told Mr. Butler, who gets up the cata- 

 logue at the Fashion Stud Farm at Trenton, what Marsh said to me about old 

 Ab. He went to see Marsh, who represented to him that he had old Ab. When I first 

 saw old Ab, Norris sent her out to the Scotch Plains, about three miles from here, to Joseph 

 Osborn to stand here on clay. She had quarter cracks; he would keep her out some two 

 months and then send her in. Norris then kept her for his own driving and Osborn was 

 afterwards his foreman in the livery stable. He was there when I traded for old Ab. I 

 think he used old Ab some number of years before he got the little Black Hawk mare and 

 then he put old Ab to hacking. I don't think I knew him before he kept the livery stable. 

 As for the exact year I got old Ab, I can not say, but I think it was '53 or '54. I don't think 

 he owned her before he kept livery, but am not sure. I know she was one of the nicest driv- 

 ers I ever sat behind, and the fastest walker and a free driver, and when I got her she had 

 been used in the hacking and her legs were bunged up, but I kept her one winter and her 

 limbs got a good deal better. She was a first-rate driver. Norris claimed, when he kept her 

 for his own driving, that she could trot with two in a wagon in 2:50. As I wrote you 

 before I had others write me about her pedigree. I asked Mr. Joseph Osborn about it and 

 he said she was out of a full-blooded running mare, a long-race mare; I suppose he meant 

 a four-mile, and the Goldsmith Maid's endurance proved it. I heard a gentleman say he 

 saw her in a race up in the Catskills with five other fast horses when seventeen years old. 



Truly yours, 



MANNING VERMEULE. 



Grace (Lady Denton) was bred by A. B. Ryerson, Goshen, N. Y.; sold to T. J. 

 Denton, then to J. E. Wood. 



Granger was bred by Ed. Hysert, Steamboat Rock, la. 



Gray Eagle. Read gr. g. instead of "b. g." 



Page 879; Green Mountain Maid. The dam of this mare was gray, 16 hands, uoo 

 pounds, bought by Mr. Nash of Osman Lamb, Georgia, Vt. 



Harry Clay 2 129. This horse was bred by Mrs. Cooper, Wantage, N. J. 



Page 880; Harry Velox. . Instead of "imported Margrave" read Tom Crowder stock. 



Hattie Woodward. Mr. Thomas B. Armitage of New York city informed us that the dam 

 of Hattie Woodward was brought to New York city from Rochester, N. Y., or vicinity, by a 

 Mr. Hosmer. We have succeeded in getting into correspondence with a son of this Mr. 

 Hosmer, from whom we learn that his father bought a bay mare, one of the pair that he 

 took to New York city, presumably the dam of Hattie Woodward, of one Peter Fountain. 

 Letters to former owners of the dam of Hattie Woodward, asking accurate description of the 

 mare, remain unanswered. If we could get this description we should probably be able to 

 trace the mare. 



Page 881 ; Honest Farmer, fourth line. Should read Maine Messenger, son of Stone 

 Horse, by Winthrop Messenger. 



Honest John 2:44^. Read trotted 1873-75. 



Honest John 2:35^. Read trotted 1850-59. 



