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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Should he not like this League, he can get anyone that is unappro- priated in Bay Prairie, or any where else- S. F. AUSTIN. [Addressed:] Mr. S. M:. Williams San Felipe de Austin [Apparently a postscript to this:] Madero wishes to take on Borden and some other Surveyor, and if Borden can get a good job I wish you would try and get him a place-also attend to the business for Dr Victor Blanco, and do tp.e best you can. I am better pleased with Madero than I ever was before-the people here are more discouraged, and more in favor of North Americans than they ever were. Arciniega will come by the 15 or 20-have new commissions for S. P. Brown, Chrisman, Wightman, Borden and Ingram 1 after he gets clear of his difficul- ties if he ever does, and push everything, for you may depend that next year will bring Muchos Cambios y trastornas [many changes and disturbances] and we must be ready for them. I wish Perrys goods hn.wled up, I have some order to enforce the collection of duties, on the ground that they came in after the exemption law e~-pired- the opinion here is that as little notice should be taken as possible of the entrada y salida de buques [entrance and departure of ships] and keep all notices of them out of the paper and say nothing de oficio about them, if possible to avoid it- try and push the store house, and have all ready by the time Hunter gets on Let Jose Carabajal have my odd pistol- all is satisfactorily explained with Navarro- I sent you 200 signatures by Williamson, attend to that without delay- Gasper wants the [word illegible]. S. F. AusTIN [Rubric]
MARY AUSTIN HOLLEY TO AUSTIN
New Orleans, J nnuary 2, 1831
MY DEAR COUSIN, I am far from having forgotten you or your visit to Greenrleld, as you suggest in your letter to my brother John. Indeed, I often find myself employed in tracing the progress of the " puny boy" through the daring career of the enterprising man. Little did either of us, at that time, contemplate the condition in which the present anniversary finds us. I have been more frequently led to these reflections since I have been living comparatively near to you--5ince
• Seth Ingrani, 1n prison tor killing J. G. Ilolthnm, Sept. 2, 1S30.
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