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had one made on the most approved and recent fashion, whi<!h is very plain, and I think all the handsomer for it, it has been the fashion here to fore to have them very showey, with a great deal of work on them, but that fashion is now exploded, the Seal with- out the Engraving cost $16. and for the engraving $10-whole cost $~6-for the Cross and initials he asked $6 and for the addition of the Bucks Head and Horns $4--there are only two men in the City who ingrave seals well, and this man Lovett, I was recommended to as being the best, it appears a great price, but I couid not prevail on him to cut it cheaper. I have taken a great deal of pains, and I hope it will please you, the seals of the fashion previous to the present,·cost from $25 to $35 without the Engraving-I shall send this by Mr Wm T. Austin who Embarks in the Nelson, with his wife-- Mr Perry arrived here on Saturday Evening last, to see the balance of his Goods on board the Nelson, I had the pleasure of his company to dinner with me yesterday, in the Evening we called with an Introduction Mr Treat gave him on 1tfrs Mexia to look at a military coat of her Husbands, that he might give the Taylor who is to make a coat for you a description of it, as he had bot the cloth there, and could not find a Col 03 uniform of the }r!exican Army in that City, we however found it would be necessary for the Taylor to call and see it, and Johns Taylor was to go up for that purpose this morn- ing, we also called in the Evening to see 1t1 r and 1tfrs Austin we found them a very pleasant young couple, she is a very pretty little woman, and I have no doubt they will be found a very agreable acquisition to the Society in Texas- It was a great treat to me to see Mr Perry, he had seen so many of my Connexions that I had not seen for many years, and some that I have never saw, that felt a .desire to hear about, and he could tell me all about them. I had only to regret that his stay w·as so short he left this on his return home at 2 o'clock to day. Mr Treat, I hear has made up his mind to return in a few weeks to Texas,-Mr "\:V oodbery is expected here to return in the Nelson- I saw Prenti~s yesterday, he told me that Zavala :Mexia etc, was calculating to make rappid progress in Colonising the Grants they represent in Texas, they intend Colonising the three Grants,1 and give every incouragement and facility to emigrants, that land and money can hold out to induce them to locate there, that lands will be offered them low. and those that are not a_ble will be supplied with means, talked of all kinds including Irish, I told him I thought • The grants to Vehleln, Burnet, and Z.O.vnln, which were pooled under the mnnngcment ot the Galveston Bny oncl Texas Land Company. See Barker, The .:Ufo of Stephen F. AwUn, 821-824. •
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