A19B2F1D20Mar1886p2

Turtle Bayou, Texas
March 20th 1886.

H.H. Russell Esq
Orange, Texas.

Dear Sir,
Yours of 15th inst
came to hand by last mail.

I return to you $35
by check on Mr Robert
Clark, the amount you
gave me as deposit costs
in the suit I instituted for
you in the [N.I. ?] court in
Galveston. The petition was
by your father. On examining
the papers afterwards I be-
came apprehensive that
the suit was barred by
time taken, so [illegible] [I?] [did?]
[not?] incuyr further costs.