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AM:ERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
this, and it is probable it will be here soon. With this intelligence I have bought the three arrobas of Coffee which I send by Corporal Sosa the price was 30 cents per pound which makes $22. 110 for the 75 lbs. It was not possible to secure it for less and I have taken nll there is for sale here. The rest of the money that I have 97 Dollars and 50 cents I have kept in order to pay for the merchandise from Orleans and. I will pay what is lacking or short. I shall advise you as soon as I receive notice of the arrival of the freight. I have advised Mr. Jones that you would not admit the contract for the corn, I think he will take 20 reales per fanega [3 bushels.] If a good assortment of clothing arrives I shall advise you and you can command me frankly and with liberty as a sincere friend in anything that is of use, and I shall at all times take great pleasure in executing your orders, if you stand on ceremony I shall be very sorry. At present there is absolutely no merchandise for sale here but we are expecting some in a few days. Your friend STEPHEN F. AusTIN.
AUSTIN TO WILLIAMS 1
Nacogdoches March 4 [1827]
Dr ,vmiams
I expected to have started borne this day, but Ahumad-a has de- termined to visit the country as far as to the Sabine and insists on my accompanying him. I go with great reluctance for my thoughts and feelings are all in the Colony and I am heartily tired of this country It is perhaps a fortunate thing for me that I have learned patience in the hard School of an Empresario for I assure you that in this place I have had full use for all I possessed Things are all settled here and I think tranquility is fully and firmly established buti matters were in a dreadfull and a critical situation, and nothing but the greatest prudence has prevented the most serious disturb- ances-Gains and a few others blamed Ahumada and me, and me in particular for the course I have advised. but I have a consola- tion that to me is worth more than the approbation of any mnn,- in the consciousness that I have done right-Fields and Hunter are certainly killed by the Cherokees nnd all the other leaders of thei party have escaped over the Sabine and I advised a mild course with those who were compromitted in a secondary degree and Ahumada himself was in favor of such a course and adopted it
, Williams Papers. Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas.
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