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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
The duel between "Wharton and Austin 1 has taken place Wharton got his arme broke and badly shattered so much so that it is proble he will loose it. I saw Doct Jones this morning be says he thinks if you make use of . . . it will be all the medicine you will want but if you have a repetition of the fever you ought to take some of the pills he sent you I send by l\fr Henry the Ginger and Columbia root which you forgot J. F. PERRY P. w. GRAYSON TO JAMES F. PERRY
San Felippe Aug 9 '34
Dr Sm,
I arrived here yesterday morning and expect to leave, on :Mon- day-accompanying Col Almonte vVe are informed on good au- thority, that the cholera is in San Antonio-deaths 6 or 7 a day,- it commenced about the 27th last month-1\Te are in hopes it will have abated by the time we get on- • Johnson writes from there, that he will be able to procure a favor- able address from the Ayuntamiento.- 1 have seen the one from Matagorda, 2 which is a considerable improvement on the first, ·but not so full as I could have wished- The Liberty .:Memorial is well written and is perhaps very good as to the substance tho' there is a little of it I do not like altogether. 8 The one from the Colorado, Johnson has with him 1Ve shall get it from: him at San Antonio where it appears he will remain- But my main ·dependence is on Almonte-There is no very im- portant, additional information as to the progress of the Revolu- tion.~000 Stn Anna men, have marched against San Louis Potosi- :Mexico is measurably quiet. "\Ve have heard, (to heighten our dis- tresses) that there is even a State Revolution-Saltillo against M011r clova. It seems that the people of the former place have set up a governor of their own, in opposition to the one at Monclova and threaten to storm the place, if the Official papers of all kind, are not given up to them-all is no doubt the work of a licentious mob- What is to come of it I lmow not of course-as I suppose no one else does- I will write you from San Antonio P. w. GRAYSON Monday Evening We shall leaYe this, tomorrow or next day-waiting on Col 0 Almonte, as Jack and myself are now ready-
1 This was John A. Wharton. It seen1s to hnve been William T. Austin. ll Above, May 17 and July 28, 1834. 3 Above, May 31, 1834.
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