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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
give you an account of all the ·children as I showed them all to him; and I have also sent you a ·lock of each of their hair and some of :Mine, all of which I think will be n.cceptable to you; for I know that any thing from you, is very highly p1·ai,sed byme,- do write by every op- portunity, I have not had a letter for some time, from Brown, he is a very Lazy Fellow to write; but perhaps my anxiety makes me un- reasonable, I think if you were to give Mr. Perry the least encourage- ment he would go on and visit you,- for he is much dissatisfied with· this Country, and some times taulks of going to the Arkansas; my only desire is to be settled by my Brothers, if that was once accom- plished I should be happy- I read to ~liss Hord the clause in your letter, she laughed and re- quested me to inform you that it was not customary for Laydes to go in search of Husbands and that she expected if some of those Bache- lo1·s that you spoke of, was to visit a Burton; that she had no doubt but what they could find wives,- I should be much pleased to hear that Brown was Married he promised me that as soon as he Married that he would pay me a visit- Cousin Adeline Lewis has a Daughter, and Miss Eliza Elliott is to be Married to :Mr. vVoodruf, living at the Little Rock, where Miss Elliott now is- I have sent you a packit.... [EMILY M. PERRY.]
ROBERT LEWIS TO AUSTIN
Rio Grande 13 th October 1825.
Col. AusTIN D Sm, I have been ·here a little better then a week, and confin 4 to the House the greater part of the time, but am recovering very fast, I was taken sick a few days after leaving Saint Antonio, and has suffered very much; I expect to leave here in a few days, for Sant fernando and Sant Ross, from what I can learn there are a grate many goods in this part of the Country,-The India.us are still doing Mischief in this part of the Country, they stole forty Horses from here a few days before we arrived here.- I have heard it said by several persons here and in Sant Antonia, that Nixon is writing against you, to the Government, and to the principal individuals in this town, and to a number of other Towns, and prefering charges against you, to the Government, I understand he said he is going on to Mexico himself, and sais be bas the papers, to show what you are, I name this as a friend excuse my bad writing ROBERT LEWIS. My nearvs are very weeke RL.
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