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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
tere de Mr Feels votre gendre, je pense que personne ne puit mieux que vous meme arreter le Grand disordre qui va se commettre par les barbares, que vous connaissez mieux que moi. J e di vous pouvez vous signaler pour le bien le l'humanitee en Generale, en fl.rent entendre aux sauvages le malheur qui les attende en suivant les plans de Mr Feels, et egalement; en fl.rent parler a Mr Feels par son frere; que pourra le d~terminer a abandonner un plan qui n'nura d'autre but que celui de le perdre; lui et tous ceux qui auront le malheur de le suivre. Jue me suis applique a prendre de bonnes informations sur le sujet de ma Lettre: maintenant je vous prie de reflechir vous meme affion de prendre les mesures les plus promptes et les plus promptcs pour arreter des malheurs qui sont evidant et que vous seul pouvez arreter. Mes compliments a votre famille et vous prie de me croire votre serviteur et sincere ami F. DrrnCY [Rubric]
J. E. B. AUSTIN TO EMILY M. PERRY 1
San Felipe de Austin Novr. 10 th • 1825.
MY Dr. SISTER. • An opportunity offers of sending this to Natchitoches and as I shall leave this place in a few days to establish myself below I concluded to drop you a line for fear I shall not soon have another opportunity. I wrote you a few days since and so did Brother- Since then he has had a severe attack of the billions fever, but I am happy to say he has recovered, altho he still continues very weak. You must not omit writing me often altho I may not have so fre- quent opportunities of hearing from or writing to you when I remove down the river I hope you will nevertheless let no oppor- tunity miss without writing. When I write you I have matter so little interesting that you must excuse the shortness of my letters, but any thing from my dear Emily is always new and interesting to me -immured as I shall soon be in the woods by myself. I hope the Boys progress rapidly in their studies, they ought all to be raised men of Business how much I lament that my father did not place me in a situation where I .could have obtained some certain method of Supporting myself instead of pursuing the course he did. There- fore do my Sister place your boys in some situation, severally as they arrive at a proper age, whereby they may gain a correct knowl-· edge-of some kind of bussness, when they arrive at an age when it will become necessary for them to enter into the World for them- selves--In one of your former letters you mention a proposal made by
1 OriglDal in possession ot Mrs. Emmett L. Perry,
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