THE AUSTIN PAPERS 909 you will grant him his request- As for myself·! will say nothing- I expressed to you when here my desires and intentions, nnd leave the rest entirely to yourself confident that you will do or have already done all the requisite and much more than if I were present Your friends here all join in the warmest expressions of friend- ship and desire me to present their cordial Salutations T uoi'IAs G. ·w EsTEnN A person just in from Matam• reports that Moctezuma had de- feated Bustamte at Sn Luis Potosi-
THOMAS M. DuKE TO AusTL~
Home December 22d 183?
DtAR Srn I Recd your answer to my letter by J uclge Cummins and nm much pleased with your Ideas as to the future policy we ought to pursue tlwy exactly coincide with my views of the same and am in hopes that the Inhabitants of Texas will unite and carry into operation the plan you proposed which in my humble opinion from our present situation is the safest course we can adopt. I Received a flew days since a letter from Dr. Peebles stating he held in his possession my Note given to you in 1824 for $270-pay- ab~e jn property I wrote to the Dr. immediately on the receipt of .it that I should be up about the 1st of next month to see him about it buf, owing to the pre!:ent situation of my wife it is entirely out of my power to go up so soon but as soon as posible I shall be up. I know my dear Sir that you ha,·e been indulgent with me as regards the payment of the note and would have paid it long ere this if every thing had gone on prosperously with me but you are well aware that the section o-f the country I reside in has laboured under more embarrassments than any other in this colony and owing to the bad crops we had last season it would put me to a great deal of Incon- veniance to have to pay the note now In twelve months more I nm satisfied I can ·be able to pay it without any Inconveniance when I gave the note to you my Dear Sir if you recollect you told me that wl:!en it was conveniant for me to pay.it to do so and for that reason and its not having been perfectly convenient is the reason that I have not made arrangements for paying it in fact I have no prop- erty I can spare to settle it -with except Land and as soon as I can se.LJ some I will most undoubtedly pay it if you will have tho good- ne~s to speak to the Dr. :for me or if you can make any arrangements with him relative to the note. I can assure you my Dear Sir that in Twelve months at farthest the note will be paid an~ _p~ace me under
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