THE AUSTIN PAPERS 179 I recd your kind letter of 8 novr yesterday and thank yo_u for the sentjments it contains- the dificulty I mentioned in a former letter is all settled whether it will ever occur again I know not-- Please r~member me very particularly to your daughters. Ann Maria I expect will hardly recollect me. I do "long " to se_e you all and to see Missouri once more, and I will see you as soon as I can arrnnge my affairs to leave this country so as to be absent one year- when you go to Potosi remember me to them all there. Brother James has a son a few weeks since, he lives at a new town ,ve have laid off on the Brasos river 15 miles from its mouth called Brasoria, a name which I gave it for the s~ngle reason that I lmow of none like it in the world. I shall remove below myself as soon as I can get a divorce from colonizing perplexities, and I do assure you tliey a1·~ many-I am weary of them, a Small farm a moderate independence and a wife would render my life much happier than it is or has been lately-b_ut I am too poor as yet (as to active capital) to think of those matters- Brother has denounced me as an old bachelor confirmed and hopeless and has undertaken to fit up a ' fruit ga.rden for me to growl away old age in. I shall disapoint him I hope tho am in favor o-f the fruit and therefore remind you
[1V. C. Carr, Hazelwood, 1fissouri.]
Tno:rtIAs M. Du1rn TO AusTIN
Bay Prairie, March 8, 1829.
See Calendar.
Dt..VID G. Burunr.r TO AusTIN
Cincinnati 10 Mch 18~9
MY Dun Sm It is not long since I availed myself of an opportunity presented by a friend going direct to Natchitoches to Send Several packets of letters and newspapers to Texas- Knowing as I do by experience the great zest with which new[s]papers are received in those secluded tegions, I take an other favourble opportunity of transmitting a. batch of them by the way of Orieans- • Since my last communication nothing of much interest hns trans- pired in relation to the prospects of emigration- the panic occa- sioned by the late change in :Mexico has I fear effectually deterred many f.rom venturing upon the untried Scenes of a new Country- a want of confidence in the Stability of the government is an objec- tion difficult to surmount, and with the testimony lately presented to the public mind it is next to impossible to remove the distrust.
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