736
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
day and night for the time Specified in my account which he was helpless as a child nearly all the time lVIr. James "Whiteside who will hand you this Letter can inform you the Same and that I :freecantly called on him to let me have some. of his blacks to help wash and dress the oald man. Colo Austin I want my deed for my Land and if you have a mind to pay my account fifteen dollars can go to you as commissioners fees for my deed and an order for the ballance in any store in town will· answer your compliance with the above will oblige yours JAMES SMALL 13 Jan 1832 Be So good as to inform me if the Land I petitioned to govern- ment for was granted JAMES SMALL [Rubric] [Inclosure] Jn.n 7 12 1832 Colo Stephen F Austin To Jomes Small Dr. by your assumption for taking care of Don Cevastian rodriges one month_ $30 00
AUSTIN TO MAnY A us TIN HoLLEY 1
San Felipe de Austin Jan: 14 1832 I received yours this morning and have stolen an hour from the rares of business, in the solitude of night, to answer it. • What you say about the dissipation and other things in Brazoria has too much truth in it; in a little time, however, these mntters will correct themselves. They are so repugnant to _me, and to all my ideas of propriety that sometimes I lose patience. I am glad you are pleased with the situation I have selected. In the year 1824 I first saw it, and then indulged the hope, though faint at that time, that I should one clay be happily settled there with my brother, and sister along side of me, and for that purpose selected it as a part of my premium land. :My brothers death made a most melancholy void in my arrangements. You must fill it. Yes, my friend, you shall have a place along side of me and my sister. On our ponies we will scamper over the flo~ery prairies to the sea beach, and along it with the wide waste of the ocean on one hand, the level green carpet of nature £ringed by distant woods, on the other, and friendship and happiness in our hearts. I am glad to hear that the officer was polite, though it is whnt I expected of him. Colonel Ugartechea is a very honorable and gen- tlemanly officer. I have no doubt but our temporary embarrass-
1 Copy by Mrs. Holley, 1n ftle ot July 10, 1831.
Powered by FlippingBook