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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
still further obligation to you-you will please write me as·soon as posible what arrangements [or] calculations I have to make THos 1\1:- DuKE [Rubric] [.Addressed:] Coln. Stephen F.Austin Town of Austin
J. M. PENNINGTON TO AUSTIN
December 24, 1832
See Calendar.
D. w. ANTHONY 1 TO AUSTIN
.Austin, Deer. 26th [1832]
DEAR Sm: I had hoped to find you here, or at least that you would have ar- rived during my stay, as the principal object of my visit was to ob- tain a title to the lands I have selected, etc.-which it seems could not be effected without your presence. ·11 it be beyond the reach of your power nnd option, to extend the quantity of land to more than ¼ of a League, will you have the goodness to assist me in obtaining a grant from such authority as is n•quis1te, if you think an application for that purpose would not be fruitless. I perceive that either a discretion has been confided to you, 01 else by means of petitions etc, great inequality in the quan- tity of Jands granted to different individuals has been effected, and I hope if there be any such capacity, either which you have, or may be obtained to increase the quantity of land which I may be entitled to reccive 1 that you will not be reluctant to aid me in its acquisition,- ! have had the pleasure of seeing your letter of 20th inst. to the Cenlral Committee, with the contents of which communicating the result and success of your visit to Bexar, I am highly delighted. 2 I sincerely hope you may not be deceived in the constancy and firm- ness of the people with whom you have been in conference. . I am much pleased with the state of feeling prevailing, and the prospect of effecting the great objects we have proposed for our- s~!,·es-but I do not see much harmony in the design of a remon- 1 Anthony was editor of The Constitutional Advocate and Brazoria Advertiser, published at Brazoria. For some account of him and his paper see an article by the editor in The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXI, 137-139. 2 On Dec. 19, 1832, the ayuntamiento of Bexar adopted it strong address to the Stnte Congress explaining the inconveniences which Texas suffered trom its union with Coahulla nnd outllnlng a plan ot reform. The ideas and phraseology are strongly suggestive of Austin, and it seems evident that he had much to do with its adoption. For a copy see Vicente Fillsola, Memorlas para la Hlstorla de lo. Guerro. de Tejo.s, I. 272-293. This note was written be!ore Austin to Williams of December 6, 1832 (which see), was dis• covered.
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