September 1882Colonel Jax Brown
Representative, Missouri State Legislature
Letter to Frank James
My Dear Frank,
My apologies for not having answered your dispatches sooner, but I have been laying wreathes at the shrine of Bacchus, and an awful trip it was. I promise I shall worship no more until matters are taken care of.
An arrangement, such as the one you describe, can certainly be made. It will take time, but if you are patient, I can assure you that no lynch mob will ever lay hands on you. You will surrender to the governor personally. After that, you will have to stand trial but, trust me, you need not fear a conviction.
I know you are anxious, but I can do nothing more to hasten things along. The governor has always been more Union and railroad than loyal and Democratic. Worse,
