THE AUSTIN PAPERS 67 write to you oftener in futer; but you do not receive all the let- ters, that are sent to you I wrote you a very long letter by l\{r. John McCormick, and also wrote to you by James Cole last winter neather of those letters I dont expect you have ever received, as I have heard that the men never went to Texas, so you see My Dear Brother that you are still remembered by your Sister and all your old Friends; Judge Carr is now hear, he always inquires very par- ticularly after you, he is still a Widdower, his Dnugh [ter] Marin, I am told has grown up a very pretty and Amiable Girl, she keeps house for her father, and you lmow how particular he is, Verginia and Cordelia are also with him he has but three Children, and lVelthy- Adeline Lewis is also a Widdowe with one Child a Girl, she keeps house for her Father, in Herculaneum- Elias looks old he is in- cli~ed to be disapated, him and Honey are still ingaged in manu- factoring Shot bnt do not do the business thnt they formily did. H[erculaneum] I nm told looks as if it was poverty struck, busi- ness is very dull every where, led is low, the Fever River mines have drawn great numbers of the miners from this part of the country. the Cir. Court sits hear this week the Suit of Price against the Perrys comes on. the Supreme Court gave it against price, but that did not snttisfye him, nnd he has now sued Ruggles Samuel John and James Perry, God !mows how it wil terminate this time Price since he has been in possession of the Mine A Burton Propperty hns nearly extricated himself from debt; their has been an immence quantity of mine1·al raised off of that la.nd, and still continue to make discoverys, it is the opinion of all your old Friends that if you would come on, their might be something done in the business. I cannot se for my part why you cant visit Missouri, what are you spending toiling and labouring your life a way for in that Wild Country you have no Family to provide for, is it possible that you cannot relize a nought [enough] (after incountering all you have for several year back) to ennable you to Visit nncl Spend a few months, with those old· Friends and acquaintances that never will for git you, you ought to recollect that our Family are a very short lived race, a few years more and we shall be mouldering in the dust with our fore Fathers- why then my Dear Stephen will you bury yourself in that remote region, your life is pretty well spent few years more you will be 40-you are now alone not incumbered with a family- You have now open'd the rond for Brown and since he has made Choice of a companion to share with him the cares a.nd vexation of the troublsome world, it is necessary that he should make evry exertion to make himself comfortable and independent; but you my dear Stephen have no one but your self, and is it pos- sible that after an absence of so mnny year that yon cannot visit your Sister, who you very well know cannot go to see you I have
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