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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Why do you not write me¥ I expected to have recd. letters here-- none from anyone-I am uneasy very much so indeed-I heard a bad account about overflow and cholera but hope it is incorrect-- I hnd a wretched trip. One month from l\fatamoros to Vera Cruz in a little schooner-ten days on short allowance of water-none but salt provisions-an'd sea sick all the time. But I am well now. Padre :Muldoon sends his respects to eYery one-he does all he can :for Texas Love to the children and Sister and your neighbors.. STEPHEN San Felipe de Austin [Addressed:] Al sor Don James F. Perry Texas
AUSTIN TO 1,,hNISTER OF RELATIONS 1
Ecs1iro Son. Como representante elegido por una Convencion del Pueblo de Tejas, tengo el honor de presentar u. V. E. original del proyecto de constitucion 2 formado por la espresada convencion como mejor aclaracion de la representacion de Tejas solicitando que se le erija en estado de la Federacion Mejicana. En el caso de que se considere necesaria mas aclaracion de las bases en que Tejas funda su derecho de ser estado estoy pronto a darlas. Suplico a V. E. se sirva acusarme el recibo de In. representacion de la convencion de Tejas que remiti por conducto clel Ecsmo. Sor. comnndante gral. de los Estados de Oriente C. Vicente Filisola, Y del proyecto de Constitucion que ncompafio y que V. E. se digne sefialar un dia en que yo pueda tener la gracia de una entrevista sobre este asunto que por su naturaleza urge el mas pronto despacho. Dios y Libertad 1° de agosto en :M:egico del afio 1833.
ESTEVAN F. AUSTIN [Rubrica].
Ecsmo Sor. :Ministro de Relaciones C. Carlos Garcia.
[Inclosure] AUSTIN TO MINISTER OF RELATIONS 1
For the better explanation of the representation of Texas, soliciting thnt she be admitted as a state of the Mexican Federation, I present the tollowing bases on wbich are founded her rights to be a state. • University of '.r<'xns Transcript;;; from .Archives of Depnrtroent of l•'omeoto, Mexl<.'O. 1 A copy of the Constitution lo Eogllsb Is printed lo D. B. Euwnrd's The History of Texas, etc. (1836), 190-205. The Spnnish copy accompanying this Jetter Is omitted. • Uol'l"erslty of Texas Transcript!! from Archives of Department of Fomeoto, Mexico. The traoslntloo Is by Mrs. Margnret Kreas, Instructor lo Spanish, tile University of Texas. A statement of the resources of Texas Is omitted. It can be round in tile South,vestern Ilistorlcal Quarterly, October, 1924, XXVIII, 118-121.
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