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copy of the Colonization law published with the translated copy and both will be perpetuated, and can be compared side, by side. May you have a safe and pleasant voyage. The next year-how much happiness-or how much bitter disappointmen~it may bring-, for I hope then we shall all be quietly and happily settled. Farewell- SF A
AusTIN TO JAMES F PERnY 1
Brazoria [Dec] 27. 1831
Dn nnoTHER: I rec 4 yours from Bells and have sent -all the letters by McKinney that I can find there is but one- John open'd one which is the invoice of the goods on board the Dart, he will want it to regulate the manifest- The Dm•t will be here tomorrow, also the Elizabeth and Wildcat-- They all left the mouth this morning-all well and ha'rmoney. Hunter had best come down I think to attend to the goods, tho I do not know what arrangements he made As to settling-I left the whole matter to you from the firstr-and did not urge you to any one place in particular I wished you to please yourself- I will now give a positive opinion, which is that you go direct and immediately to Peach point, or come to this place- The idea of a good house for this year must be abandoned, log cab- bins must do-remove all your stock to peach point, make corn there in the cane brake-let the work at Chocolate go and begin down here at once-and from this time forward make up your mind finally and definitively on the subjec~and also keep up your sperits-no lo~ sperits will do in any one as nearly connected to me as you are-it is noticed by others and attributed to the wrong cause Mrs Holly has gone. She and Henrys wife send their love to Emily-Mrs. H. is a divine woman-she will be a neighbor at peach point, also Henry and Archibald. I mean to make a little world there of my own . Keep up, my Dr brother-keep up your spirits we will be happy when we are all collected at Peach point Shall be up soon STEPHEN I have now taken it on myself to direct where you ought to set- tle-think no more about it but go to peach point and fix some cab- bins or a camp, and let building alone for this year-· Three years ago Westall began where he is-he had 1 negro man 1 boy 3 wor.aen- this year he only makes 80 bales of cotton.
1 OrigiJJ.41 ill poeec1&1on ot Mra. E. L. Perry.
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