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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
buen tiempo-es decir, para·la P1imavera-Para conseguir estos, no tengo un medio ! En cargue 1agnjon de la primer calidad, con todo lo qe-pertenece a el, a Coronel Woo<lberry, quien deve volver por el 15 del pre- sente- , Tambien necesito como $50 para el viaje solamente- Por ~o qe- pertenese al pagamiento, V. sabe muy bien qe- muy pronto tendre el dinero. # Por esto he tenido tanto cuidado de v. Salud. Resiba V. las saludes d~ mi familia, y el cariiio de su seguro JOSE M. J. CARVAJAL. P. D. Por esta carta, puede V. ver el provecho qe-el poco tiempo qe-he estado en esta Ciudad, me ha hecho. JosE M. J. CARVAJAL. [Rubric] [Addressed:] Col. Stephen F : Austin, San Felipe de Austin, Coahuila & Texas. # This IIC!ltence you will understnDd.
ARoHIBALD AusTIN TO AusTIN
New York 5 Septr 1830
MY DEAR Sm From some cause or other we were Eight weeks without any of the news papers from your Colony, or any inteligence from there; dur- ing that interval, some one arrived here from St Louis, who reported that he had seen some person there direct from Texas, who said you was dead, and that it was generally believed in St Louis, this gave me much anxiety, until a few days since, I was agreeably relieved from this state of suspence, by the receipt ·of six of the Texas Ga- zettes, by the Editor of the Journal of Commerce by the same mail, up to the 12 July, which he sent me, and a new Orleans paper con- taining an article from one of your papers as late as the 22 July, by which I observed you were recommended as one to represent your Colony, to the Legislature, you having written to me, that your health was impared by the :fatigue you had encountered, caused me to feel very apprehensive·that the report might be correct-- I con- sidered it a very hard·case, that just as you were commencing to reap and enjoy the benefits of y~ur great exertions, tha.t you should be taken off, and your Colony left to revert to its original nugatory state- Thank God the repo1t proved false, and that you were yet alive, and I hope may live many many years, and be fully compen- sated :f~r ~he many ~eprivations, 'you have been subject to, in the
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