THE AUSTIN PAPERS 999 Liberty. The subject o.f aduana and derecho is also under con- sider~tiou. You will not forget that the titles for my 11 sitios must be finished before October or they will all be lost. The cholera is very bad here, and so far as the prem~nit01·y simp- tons extend, I am now in a fair way to get rid of Texas and all of her troubles. Farewell s. F. AUSTIN S. M. ,villiams.
AusT1N TO SAMUEL .M. ,vII.J..ul\Is
[From Willlnms Papers, Rosenberg Llbrnry, Galveston, Tex.]
Mexico Augt. 21. 1833 wednesday
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Yours of 13 J nly came to hand yesterday via vera cmz-it was n relief to me for I began to think the cholera had taken you oft'. I rec 4 the two letters of credit oli E " 7 Gregory of one thousand dol- lars and have not used them yet,·but expect shall have to do it in part, at least. "'hat are com;idered promonito~·y simptons of cholera gave me warning since mon<lay of last week. I was then much engaged in trying to get the 11 article of the law of 6 april before congress in a. :favorable shape and it was to have been sent in on wednesday, but the cholera prevented n. meeting and has clone so ever since on that day I fatiguccl myself very much indeed. This brought my simp- tons to a crisis, for I was taken about 3 o'clock P. M. with excessive purging of a whitish mucos character, great pain in bowels, cold feet, legs, hands, etc, pains over the body-no cramps-moderate ,·omiting-this was evidently the first stage of this deseaso and would probably have passed into the collapse in n short time. It was at this moment I closed a few lines to you by the last mnil and applied cholera remidy-in about ¾ of an hour I was releived by u fine perspiration which I think saved my life, for others have died in less than one hour whose 8imptons were similar to mine. This desease prostrates the streno-th to a most astonishing degree. I find that I sensibly feel the e:ffe~ts of the billious attacks I ba,·e bad in Texas and the quantity of calomel etc I had to take-my stomach is so debilitated that I have to diet with great caution to :n·oid a relapse. I think I shall cro out tomorrow to Tacubaya-two leagues, where Gen 1 Mas~n-Butler and many others have retired some time since-
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