The Austin Papers, Vol. 3

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THE AUSTIN PAPERS

In testimony hereof the parties of both parts have set their hands and seals this of in the year of our Lord 183

JOHN LEADBETTER TO AUSTIN, ET AL.

To GENL AusT1N, CoL WHARTON AND DR ARCl'IER GENTLEMEN

Feeling interested for the Cause of Texas, and being So Situated in life that I cannot aid them personally I would beg Your acceptance of the Within as a Small testim.ony of My good wishes for their Success, over the blood thirsty Tyrant of the Mexican butchers JoHN LEADBETTER JR [Rubric] Philad•· May 2nd 1836

CITY HOTEL TO AUSTIN

GENL s F AUSTIN

To City Hotel

May 2d, To dinner Supper and lodging·-··-- -----------·---·--···- _________1.50 " Breakfast and lodging _____ ·---··---·---·-----l.00 " Bottle Champagne ----·-·---------..-·-----------2.50

2 papers_·-----------·-·---··--------·······-------- .12½

Recd payment R W Dunlap pr James McClintock [Endorsed:] Bills Paid Expenses in New York in May 1836

AUSTIN TO SENATOR L. F. LINN 1

New York, May 4, 1836.

HoN. L. F. LINN: DEAR SIR:

Yours of 1st. instant I received to-day on my return from Philadelphia, (where I went, at the solicitation of a committee from there,) in conjunc• tion with my colleagues, Archer and Wharton, to attend a Texas meeting on the 2d. I presume you have seen in the Philadelphia papers the result of the meeting- (see the Pennsylvania Inquirer, U. S. Gazette, Ledger, etc.) It was very enthusiastic and ardent in the cause of Texas, and was held in a IFrom the St. Louis Commercial Bulletin, June 3, 1836, in Collections of the Wis- consin Historical Society. The Bulletin gives credit to the- Baltimore Republican for the letter. Linn was United States Senator from Missouri.

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