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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
Enquire of Mrs. Williams where my portable writing desk is- I can not find it, also the key- I left it with her-also ask her if she knows of any of my other things
S. F. A.
[Addressed:] Mr James F. Perry Peach Point Dr Miller
THOMAS G. WESTERN TO AUSTIN
Goliad September 16th 1835
CoL. S. F. AusTIN MY DEAR SIR
I congratulate you upon your safe return to Texas and hope your presence will inspire sentiments of harmony, unanimity of opinion and firmness of purpose and extend over our adopted country the mantle of peace and tranquility- Your old friend D. Juan Jose Herndz. [Hernandez] is no more he fell a victim' to cholera his widow is well- The Vasquez's are' also well and these and all your friends in this Section rejoice at your return and desire your weal- I flatter myself with the hope that I shall enjoy the pleasure of receiving a line from you- You can command my services and ~e assured that I am Your friend and well wisher
THOMAS G. WESTERN
D. C. BARRETT TO AUSTIN
COL AUSTIN
DEAR Srn, . I do not now recollect the language used in my letter to the citizens of Mina relative lo commissioners and the effect of the law of last session upon Robenson's contract-but I well remember t~at I was informed at San Antonio that the govr had not made or perfected the apt of Judge Johnson and Dr. Peebles as commissioners under the law which contem• plated that apt-nor am I now advised as to the extent of their powers- I was anxious to quiet the feelings of unsettled colonists, and advised the apt. of other commissioners which the new state of affairs as represented, fully justified. ~ut in doing this, I had not the least apprehension that I was interfering with any apt actually made, and of n~:m, whom I know Texas approved-as well as my humble self- On this subject when better in- formed, I shall communicate with you freely-for the present- I shall spare no exertions to give effect to the object of thei-r powers, so far as I understand it, and see the interests of the people protected- As regard the upper colony-I was professionally consulted, as to the operation of the law of last april, (I think) in anulling what is called Rob- '
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