THE AUSTIN PAPERS 523 a very good assortment enough I think to make a tryal on. Mr. Hunter will be in readiness to start ns soon as I return from Mis- souri I will consigne our goods to McKinstrey and .Austin at Brazoria. part of the articles you wrote for is packed among the goods viz Holsters Bridle ·Martingale Spurs and Boots and Vnttel's Laws of Nations in English. I could not get it in Spanish nr;ither in Phil• no~ in this place. the other Spanish Book you wrote for is not to be found I have made every inquiry I could both in Phil• and ·here. Your other cloths was not finished when I left Phil• the undress suit wns partly finished but, the uniform could not be made for want of information how to make it Since I arrived here l\fr. James Treat the ~Iexican Consul gave me a letter of introduction to Co 1 [Mexia's] Ladey She shewed m~ her husbands uniform and with the assistance of the Messrs Austin, I have got a Taylor here to take a particular description of it and when I return to Phil• I will have it made and forwarded together with the other coat vest Pantaloons Sword Sash appailetts and belt by the way of New Orleans. I bought a poartnble writing desk here for you had your name engraved on it and put in the charge of Mr. wm Austin for you I have not procured the Book Case and Secretary for you my funds run out but will buy and bring you one from New Orleans- I saw Mr Leaming in Phil•. he has sent you some maps they will be put in the care of 1\11' W. Austin for you the law suit with Fox does not come to issue untill december and Mr. Leaming says it is very prob- able that it may be 12 or 18 months before there is anything recovered from that quarter he was absent from the city most of the time I was there and had not the Geonogical account which. you requested him to send you ready but he promised he wuld prepare it soon and send it to you Messrs Gill, Ferguson & Co has promised me to forward to you the Gazette and the Quarterly Review I have not got the paper that the advertisements y9u mentioned was in I ex- pect to g~t the one that yours was in but the one Smiths was in I am afraid I _will not find but I will try and if I can find them will send them by Mr Hunter. ;r have rec 11 letters from home. They were all well. I am afraid Woodbury will have trouble about his colony, as I am told that Prentice (the same that broke the Kentucky Insur- ance Company) and Co 1 Mexnr [Mexia] has claims to it. What the nature of these claims is I know not-- Co 1 Mexhas Lady told me her husband was going to Texas next Spring to Settle th~t colony and they s~y Woodbury has no claim to it, that he is merely an agent for the others. It will be impossible for me to move my family before March and if you are elected to the Legislature it is possible
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