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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
]. M. GUTIERREZ DE ESTRADA TO ---- [Mexico, January 25, 1835. See Calendar.]
SAMUEL M. WILLIAMS TO N. J. DOBIE [San Felipe, Janary 27, 1835. Land.] BAKER AND BORDENS TO J. F. PERRY
[San Felipe, January 29, 1835. L. Abbotts visits Columbia to obtain assistance in starting a printing press at San Felipe. Williams, Miller, and Somervell will help.]
DAVID SILCRIGS TO GAIL BORDEN, ]R. [January 29, 1835. See Calendar.] AUSTIN TO J. F. PERRY
Mexico Feb. 6, 1835
DR. BROTHER, I send you by Mr. [Peter W.] Grayson a copy of the exposition I have published, defending the people of Texas, and myself.1 I wish you to preserve it, as I find I shall have no copies left. I think I shall leave in ten or fifteen days for Monclo\'a. I am waiting for the publication of the general amnesty law, which it is said will be done tomorrow or next day, when I shall be free once more for I am still on ba,il. Col Butler 2 has refused to give me u·p my last note of 1900 and odd dollars which I paid to Whitesides alleging that Whitesides had drawn on me for more than he was authorised to do. Whitesides receipt as Butlers agent is in my desk and I wish you to see him, and let him know that if -Butler refuses to give up my note I shall hold Whitesides responsible. He must show his authority from Butler to draw. If you can get along without selling land I wish you to do so, as it will be a sacrifice to sell now. The league adjoining and below St. Felipe_. and the one on the West Bernard (a prairie league) must not be sold for any price as I may dispose of it otherwise. I send you some seeds. I refer you to Mr Grayson for all the news. I hope that a dead calm will reign all over Texas for many years to come-and that there will be no more excitements of any kind whatever. Cotton will be high here next year. There are a great many large factories .. i>uilding in various places by foreigners-the demand for Texas cotton will be very great, deliverd at Vera Cruz. I do not write to my friends, because I cannot write to all, and Grayson can tell them all the news. 1£xplanation to the ' Public concerning the affairs of Texas. Translation by Ethel Zivley Rather, Quarterly of Texas State Historical Association, VIII, 232-258. 2For _Au_stin's relations with Anthonr Butler, see Barker, Life of Stephen F. Austin, 286-287.
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