Although unknown to McMaster, Monroe would ask a favor of McMaster, and reminds McMaster of his friendship for Monroe's brother, Colonel James Monroe, who was killed in the Civil War, at Harpers Ferry, in 1861. Monroe is now 68 years old and without health or employment. He has written about six thousand lines of poetry, and asks McMaster to tell him the best way of getting them published, and to introduce him to some publishers or to some literary society with influence. There is poetry on many subjects, and numerous pieces in prose. If he could get the work published he is sure it would pay him well, in Texas alone, for more than all the outlay. :: I-2-f A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.