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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
I look forward with the most heartfelt anxiety to the period when I shall be restored to you all once more, so that I can enjoy your society and that of my friends in a· log cabbin, or a camp-far very far from the intrigues and vilinous intanglements of palaces and politics. My opposition to a territory last year has been the main cause of all my entanglements-but I did my duty and under the same circums~ances I would do again just as I did in 1833. I have more friends here now than I ever had, and so has Texas-my exposition has had a good effect-tho I am told that I shall be attacked in the newspapers, or that a reply will be given to it etc. I fear nothing from such an attack. Remember me to all your neighbors and my friends in general when you see them and to J. H Bell and the Jacks, McKinny, Miller, Martin, Burnett etc in particular Love to all the children. I hope they are learning fast. Love to Eliza and Phillips. Mr Grayson has a project to establish a cotton factory by a company which I am much in favor of and have authorised him to take stock for me. Texas has cost me trouble and labor enough, and I hope yet to see some happy days there. I have seen but few as yet. I presume my friend S. M. Williams is at Monclova, for which reason I do not write to him. I re• quested you and him to distroy the letters I sent by Offult without showing them to any one, which I hope was done. Calm, a dead calm, is all that Texas needs-make good crops, and send them to Vera Cruz, Tampico etc. Remember me to H. Austin and his· family. Tell them to keep up good spirits-the dark days have passed, if you can only keep good health. your affectionate brother STEPHEN. [Addressed:] Mr. James F. Perry near Brazoria Texas Mr Grayson
ANDREW PONTON TO GAIL BORDEN, JR.
[Gonzales, February 13, 1835. Concerning deed for a league of land on Lavaca for his father, William Ponton.]
AUSTIN TO SAMUEL M. WILLIAMS
[From Williams Papers, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas.]
Mexico Feb. 14. 1835
s. M. WILLIAMS MY GOOD FRIEND,
I confidently hoped to have met you at Monclova by the 1 of March, but I find that I cannot- I think I shall be able to leave here in about 15
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