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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
AUSTIN IN AcccouNT WITH HOTCHKISS & Co.
New Orleans, 19 August 1835
Mr. S F Austin
BOUGHT OF HOTCHKISS & CO. Booksellers and Stationers, 24 C:hartres Street.
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1 Walpoles Letters ---··-··-··- ···-····---------------- 1 Letters from Constantinople__ ... 1 Vol Scott····-····--···--··-···--·-··-····--·- ------------- Sismondis Fall Roman Empire _________ ··- ·---------·----- 1 Voyage of the Potomac_ __________________ 1 Pelham -·-···--·---- 1 Penny Magazine ---··---------- ----·---- 1 Casket ·-·-··-·-·--··--------------------- Irving's Conquest of Grenada l Cabinet Library -·-···- -------------------- 1 Johnsons Dictionary . 1 Memo Book -·-·- ------------------------ 1 Young mans Own Book...__________________
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I Macintosh Revolution __
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AUSTIN TO MRS. MARY AUSTIN HoLLEY1
New Orleans, August 21, 1835.
MY DEAR COUSIN,
I am, as you will see by my date, once more in the land of my birth, and of freedom- a word I can well appreciate. I shall leave here in a day or two for Texas. I wished to have taken a trip up the river, and thence to the north but shall have to defer it until spring. I have been so long absent from home, that my affairs there are behind hand, and require my attention. The situation of Texas is daily becoming mor~ and more interesting, so much so, that I doubt whether the Government of the United.States, or that of Mexico, can much longer look on with indifference, or inaction. It is very evident that the best interests of the United States require that Texas should be effectually, and fully, Americanized-that is-settled by a popu- lation that will harmonize with their neighbors on the East, in language, political principles, common origin, sympathy, and even interest. Tex<U
1 Copy by Mrs. Holley.
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