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	Record Group Number:	900000
	Collection Number:	M92- 1
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	Collection/Series Title:	Call family and Brevard family papers, 1788-1925.
	Container:	00005
	File Unit:	00005.00005
	Item:	00004
	Title:	Letter, September 9, 1819, from Hermitage, published April 1902, concerning Call's involvement in his friend Major Eaton's approaching duel, urging him to require use of pistols and not rifles or muskets: "These are not the weapons of gentlemen. . . Charge your friend to preserve his fire -- to keep his teeth firmly clenched, and his fingers in a position that if fired on and hit, his fire may not be extorted. . . charge your friend to preserve his fire until he shoots his antagonist through the brain, for if he fires and does not kill his antagonist, he leaves himself fully in his power. Have every rule written down and signed . . . The attack upon Major Eaton, was in the first place wanton . . . [his accuser] shows a meanness and cowardice . . . that induces me to believe that he will not fight. It may be -- he may rather select me . . . if my pistol fires, I kill him."
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