THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 1073 •Your friends are all well, as far as I know. Uncle Austin's family still remain as they were when you left this, •nothing is done towards closing the estate Moses lives at the place, and hns the four boys with him, and Eliza the girls, Margaret has never return'd to live with Mrs. S. Perry neather do I know weather they intend to let her, poor Girls through the foolish pride of their elder sister they are prevented from receiving many advantages that they other wise would have- vVilliam has got into some kind of business in Georga that brings him in three hundred Dollars a year-and is not expected in this country for two or three years- Cousin Adeline was married on the 23 rd of December and commenced house keeping in a short time after, in the house that Lewis had his office; :Mrs. Henry Elliot has established herself at this place and has a very good school; and I hope will be much more fortunate than she was at St. Louis- I expect a visit from Mrs. Carr in June, she has had a very long and seviar fit of illness, which come very near termi- nating her valuable life- • I hope my Dearest James you will exert your self to try and per- swaid our Dear Brother to visit this Country; you know very well how necessary it is for him to come on, and their is but one thing that I know of to prevent him, and your exertions aded to his own I am sure would overcome that difficulty, for I well know that Stephen will never visit Missouri •untill he has it in his power to sattisfy every clame that is against him, and I trust it will not be long before he will be able to realize as much Money as will set him clear of the world, and have something considerable to compensate him for all the fatigue boath of body and mine, that he hns suffered for the Last si,x yea1·s. 0 it will be a most joyful period to me, when I shall have the pleasure of embracing my clear Brother, the com- panion of my Youth, and presenting to him my Young and Growing Family, I still flatter my self that I shall yet live to enjoy many happy clays [in the] society of my B1·others, and perhaps be a neig[hbor] Mr. Perry wrote a very long letter to Stephen [some- time] since, which I hope will come snfe to hand,-I was pleased, and provoked my dear Brown at ryour] letter or note, you must hnv~ been very [much pressed] for time; for you did not write more than a doz[en Lines] you certainly could not of been at a loss, for [ma- terial] when writing to your Sister who feels the [greatest] interest in every thing that concerns you; pr[a.y J take on all the things that you .started with, or ~id - - - safe, I am fearful that you lost some of your clothes [you] left one of your new shirts at Elias Bates; which [I will] send on to you by Esq. Andrews, who expects to [go in the] Faul, he has sold his farm for five hundred Dollars- The Children are all well, and often taulk of you Austin pro-
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