THE AUSTIN PAPERS 769 undetermined whether I shall return untill ·after the September session-tho I do not lmow how you are getting on for I have not heard a word from San Felipe since the 8th day of March, which was the day I left there, the last mail brought nothing. Tell Sister Emily that Austin is well-has a Mexicanita Sweet- heart and begins to habla.r. The session of today continued· untill 4 P. M. so I have not time to write to the Ayuntamto, and therefor request you to read this letter to the members-and to present my respects to each of them individually-also to Sarah and all friends-y al Padre. S. F . .AUSTIN Reservado : Tell John Austin not to dispose of any lots in the new part of Brazoria untill my return, not one to any person nor on any account. -I particularly request and charge you to attend to this-I mean the lots that were bid in by him for me, which indudes the most that were sold. If he is not in San Felipe write to him imme- diately. You need not send any letters to me untill farther orders, £-or I do not know where I shall be during the summer. • Gen 1 Mason wishes you to keep his letters and papers, if any should come for him untill he arrives en esa s. F. AUSTIN I wrote you from Goliad-Bexar-and twice from here by Don Luis del Valle. and Butler. [Addressed:] Don Samuel M. Williams Austin
HE:NnY MonsE TO JAMES F PERRY
Hall's Bayou, May 6, 1832.
See Calendar.
AUSTIN TO HENRY AUSTIN l
Saltillo May 8th 1832 DEAR Sm-I sent your letter to Smith and Stillman from Canada, and by this last mail recd. their answer, and an order on the agent of the late firm of R. P. Staples and Co. for the aclmowledged balance of $756.05. The agent left here for. Mexico before I recd. their orders. I applied to some others who are employed in arranging the accounts of the concern, and they all tell me that nothing can be had, and recommended that the account be sent to some one in Mexico to represent it at the co1UYU1·so of the creditors. I fear this
1 Copy by Moses Austin Bryan, In 11.Je of Aug. 27, 1820.
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