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AMERICA..i..~ HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'
you from the unpleasant situation which from your letter to me through :Mr. l\fason you state that you are placed in relation to this property. I am from every information I have, disposed to do in the matter so iar as my power extends whatever you and :Mr. Mason may think I ought or can do. Please if you chalk out a course to give me the forms of the transaction which would be authentic in your country- I deputed :Mr. :Martin to act as agent, but I have not beard a word from him. R.lli~ This letter is directed to ~Ir :Mason at Cincinnati Ohio, who has proffered to bear it. [.Addressed:] Col. John T. :Mason Care of l\Iajor Henrie Inn- keeper Cincinnati Ohio.
)Iosci .A.csnx BRY.U. TO .A.cSTL"",
Saltillo September 23d 1832
n~u~CLE This will inform you that I am well, and recd, your letter of the 4 of this month this morning and with much pleasure. and glad to hear that ,ou ha,e arriYed safe home and that vou found all the famik well. ,ou need not be uneasv about me.· I am now living mth irr. Sharpe. I did get tiard of Friholes ana'Tortillos and went out to Parras and sta,ed ";ith Doct Grant about 4 or 6 weeks, and when I started to come a WU\" he told me that he would not let me go back to Saltillo unless: I ~ould promise not= to go and frrn with Grande aney more: but li,e with :..\Ir Sharpe~ and I though it was the best plan myself: and so I was not aboYe a month and a half with Grande, the Doct. !Sa gTeat friend of yours and of the Colony, he has elected 2 bipufados [diputados] at Parris in favor of the O>lony s.nd Estrangeros. and bas put Loco Ern:rndes out, he sayes if you c·an onley send two more from Texas he will show them a thing or t"o; I will stay untill after the fare as it will comence to morrow and then it is very probable I will go down to :Matamoras with some of [the] strange[r}s oYer hear to the fair, most likley with Mr. Dibblee or Mr Coldwell I have got but about S or 10 Dollars, and Hnetson hasent got a sent to lend me he says, but I must do the best I can I wanted to buy a saddle and rigging but I havent got the money theirfore I must do with out. I-Iuetson talks of going on to the Colony but I would go by myself before I would go with him he bas made a compleate brute of himself. I have got your papers safe I haYe been obliged to go indet for a leather trunk to Mr Coldwell be sayes he will be very apt to go through the Colony_on his return to New Yorke and then I can settle with him. nothing more at present but I am in hopes I will see you in the course of 1
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