THE AUSTIN . PAPERS. 1239 I am getting tired of Colonization affairs and hope before long to close my business and settle on a farm- Remember me to your Husband and assure him that nothing would ·give me more real pleasure than to see him in this Country as soon as his business will permit, he will find us in the woods-and poo1· · The enterprise I undertook is better calculated to enrich those ... who come after me than to benefit myself-I have the labor to per- form and the seed to sow, but my successors will reap the harvest- . Give my respects to Sam 1 Perry and to John and his wife and my other acquaintances- your brother s. F. AUSTIN N. B. I am very much fatigued and have a headache which must be my excuse for such a scrall as I now send you- What are the Jones doing1 where is Mrs. Henry Elliott?- What has become of James Austins children 1- What is G. Hammond doing i I received a letter from Arch. Austin in New York. Henry had gone to Mexico-are Horaces children doing well~ where is his wife 1 etc etc • This river mouths into the wild ocean without any bay, and the breakers are .roaring within Eighty yards of me-there is a good two story frame house and some cabins here and there is at this time 8 feet water over the bar Salt water is produced here by digging 10 feet so strong that 5 gallons of it will make one of salt, and by dig- ging 4 feet good fresh water is found in abundance,-Mosquitoes are troublesome at this time- I have discovered in my fishing trip that the west end of Galveston bay comes within four miles of this place, and within 200 yards of a deep tide water creek that empties into the Brasos, so that 200 yards digging will open an inland water com- munication with the Harbor of Galveston where ships of 400 tons can enter with safety-I shall spend some time on the coast-it is 75 miles from here to where I live at present tho I intend to remove about 25 miles by water above here, 10 by land-
EMILY M. PERRY TO AusTIN 1
Mine A Burton December 18 th 1825-
MY DEAR BROTHERS- A considerable length of time has elaps'd since we have received any letters from you. What can be the cause of this long silence. the last letter which I received wns from you my Dear James dated August 17 th from Groces Retreat writen shortly after your return from the interior. I received it in a month after it wns writen; it
. 1 Original in possession ot Mrs. Emmett L. Perr.:,. •
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