I collect 19th century baseball letters, as well as Civil War letters with Mississippi content. This one has both, mentioning a friend getting injured at Port Hudson and their cricket club changing over to baseball:
City of Plymouth Mass. June 22nd '63
"Perhaps you may be interested in knowing that "The Plymouth Rock Cricket Club" has been turned into "the Plymouth Rock Base Ball Club", where at "Ben" is quite dissatisfied. Most of us think that rather a better game than Cricket, and we play the New York game."
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