THE AUSTIN PAPERS. .1709 In short I am convinced that differences must arise from the union of two states composed of different materials like coahuila and Texas-and that a better plan might be.to separate the practicability of which you should better know than mygelf. The only material inconvenience which strikes me at this time is the delay of the dis- patch of affairs Subject to the executive, department for the rest· your situation might be bettered, • It was my intention to be more concise but have been led astray by a [desire] to satisfy your many enquir[ies] [some] of which requires n more expert [hand] than mine to do them justice I have always avoided political correspondence from motives, which have in some measure subsided, and will now with pleasure do all I can to Quench your thirst- I shall leave Mexico for the U. S. in the month of February next. it would have been sooner but for the unexpected delay of My co- partner "\-Villson in the U. S. he will be out in the packet for this month. Hoping to hear from you often, I remain sincerely your friend obt. and humb servt W. S. P,umO'rr [Rubric] I have a file of New York papers on the road and if they arrive in time for the mail f will] hand you a few [Addressed:] Sor Don. Estevan F. Austin Saltillo
J. F. BucnETT-I TO S. M. "\V1LLTAUS
Hacienda de Carrizal, the 8 th 9 1"' 182'7
}.fr. S,\1\flIBL "\V. WrLLTAMs, DEAR Sm I have received your esteemed of the 10 th of Septem- ber by the wny of Mr. Ybarra and to which I answer albut imme- diately. I learn in it, that you are very busy, nnd that the colony has sufered a good deaf of feaver, and that you have wrote to your friends for the seeds in question etc _Colonel Austin is here, en Saltillo, and has talked with Ybnrrn on the subject of the seeds. and I too, I had three large conversations with him on the subject of my former letters to him advising him that I had renounced my project of going to the brazos, as a minister, etc he upon the whole, was very satisfied with me. But he told me that he should be glad if I would go thither to establish a Sp1mish school, thnt he had solicited a Spanish Master for that purpose in the U. S. nncl could ->btain none, that, at his arrival, he will try, (according to his wishes) to form a school, to Justify a teacher, nnd he would write me the result. and that in th~ meantime I would continue to write you both from t.ime to time. As he has told me that you take the News paper coiled t.he Eugle, I shall tell you nothing of politics because you will st>e in
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