THE AUSTIN PAPERS 1009 Love to my beloved Sister and all the children and to your neighbors Yoor~ili& _ s--- I have written every mail since my arrival here on the 18 July- [Addressed :] ]Hr. James F. Perry Merchant San Felipe de Austin Texas w. s. PARROTT IN ACCOUNT WITH AUSTIN
Mexico, Oct'r 23d 1833
W. S. Parrott
To S. F. Austin, Dr. Draft favor Franco Pizarro Martinez___________________________ $709. 09 do do E. G. Carvajal________________________________________ 290. 91 $1,000- Sold at 10% premium__________________________________________ • 100.
$1,100 -
for confirmation, see File of McKinney and Williams nccts- [Indorsed :] W. S. Parrott Drafts sold him Mexico, Oct'r 23d 1833
J .AMES F. PJillRY TO AUSTIN
Peach Point 26th Oct. 1833
DEAR BROTI-IER Your letters of the 30th of July-the 5th and 11th of Sept. dated at Mexico came to hand two days ao-o it crave us verrv QTeat pleasure b t:t • L,I to receive them and to hear of your good state of health, as we bad l~eard through Williams that you had wrote him you had at the ~ime you wrote all the premonetary simptims of the Cholera a~d ~s 1 t had been very fatle here scarsely any who was attaced mth it ·that ~·ecovered. "\Ve was very much alarmed for your safety ~ut ki~d providence has preserved you to us and to the Colony-Wluch still needs your Guardien hand to guid them through. To give you an account of the over flow Cholara, Fevers nnd deaths in the colony I presume would be unne.c:;sary as I el:pect Ur 'Y 1 lliams has given you full acts. We would have wrote you long since but did not think our Leatters would reach you ns When you left Matamoras you expected your stay in Mexico would be -rery ~hort we will now give you a short act. of the sickn~ss and deaths in our emediate neighbourhood on your return you will find 11• great vacuam in this part of the country.. but before we sny anything of t?e neighborhood we will give you'some account of our _own fum_nles sickness. Our famely has not been entirely clear of sickness smce J u~e and part of the time scarsely enough well of either servants or wlutes to wait on the sick and at the worst of our sickness there ~as not a Physician could be had or a neighbour to call to see us Erwl! was verry low indeed I scarsely thought she could recover. But it
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