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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
HENRY AUSTIN TO AUSTIN
Matamoros August 3 4
• 1829
Col. S F A.usTIN 1'.lY DEAR Sm I have written to you repeatedly during the last· three years by New Orleans, and from Vera Cruz by mail as I have not rec 4 replys I suppose my letters have miscarried I now avail my self of a direct opportunity to apprise you that I am here with a Steamboat and some goods for the purpose of ascend- ing the River del norte to open a commercial intercourse with the interior if practicable and taking up land for future benefit- It is extreemly doubtfull whether the enterprise will result in success I shall however give some months attention to it and not leave this country in any event before fall. It will be some weeks before I can get ready to start from this and Should opportunity offer I should be pleased to hear from you Your council after so much painfull experience would be valuable before leaving the US I laid before Govt a Memoir on the western boundary pointing out the advantages of an exchange of the territory west of the Rocky Mountains for the lands between the Del norte and the US giving the Mexican Govt one or two Millions to enduce the exchange-- Should a sure conveyance offer I will Send you a Copy- I think something will ultimately be done on the subject do me the favor to let me hear from you and beleive me always truly your friend and cousin HENRY AusTIN
J. M. VIESCA TO AUSTIN
Saltillo August 6, 1829.
See Calendar.
J.E. B. AUSTIN TO EMILY M. PERRY 1
New Orleans Augt 6 th 1829
MY Dr SISTER, I arrived at this place on the 4 th inst in the Schooner Eclipse from the Colony which I left 6 days before. As the Steam Boat Missouri will leave this in the morning I could not let her depart without dropping a line to say that I am myself in good health, and Eliza was also well when I left home. She wrote to you not long since and as you have not yet answered. it we presume you could not have 1 OrJgJnal in po11se.uion ot Mrs. E. L. Perry. The writer died ot yellow tever on .Aug. 17. (See Thompaon to Austin, Aug. 19, 1829.)
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