THE AUSTIN PAPERS 921 Grayson has not yet come, ·but I have reason to expect him every week. Dr. Archer is at the mouth of the river on a health expedi- tion. I hope they may be of some use to· us in the work we have before us, as you suggest. In relation to the correction of the proof sheets of the Remon- ~trance, 1 I have to answer that you will either have to·come down for that purpose, or leave it to me and Cotton, for Eckle is sick. The translation cannot be well made .here, and I shall therefore expect the one you made. ·Wherefore do you wish it copied i your hand writing is very plain. , W'ben shall I come up on the subject of land i or will it be neces- sary n.t all. I shall send my brother up before the Commissioner leaves-I have two here just from the College walls, and will make useful Citizens of them by learning them to print a little-You must give them a piece of land, for that wns the promise upon which they came. On the subject of P Green, l,,e wishes to know, if a petition could not be sent down to him _to sign which would answer the pur- pose without his presence t [Addressed:] Col. S F Austin San Felipe. AusTI:N" TO El\HLY M. PERRY I will send 200 or 300 peach trees by a wagon that is to leave here in four days. Send up to John Austins after them and dont neglect them and get pomegranetes from John and oranges attend to fruit at once and go to work as tho. you expected to live there always. Save the live oaks round the yard a.nd the Pecan trees-yo~ dont say how [you] like the place [Addressed:] .i\frs Emily 1\1 Perry Peach Point Care J. Austin.
AUSTIN TO E:anLY M. PERRY
Jan' 261833
Dr Srsn:n, I rec 4 ·yours .of 20- I scarcely know what to do as ·to the Little rock business. The whole-truth as it and other matters [stand] is as follows- I bought a large amt of new madrid claims of G. Tennelle for which I gave him my notes-one of those claims was In.id on Little Rock in· company with O'Hara- I sold all the claims to Br:van and gave him a deed- . I took an instrument from him by which he agreed to pay Tennelle-that paper I left in his desk at long Prairie ' See Musquiz to Governor-, Jan. 10, and Anthony to Austin, Jnn. 20 and Feb. 8, 1S33. 88370-28---59
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