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days and requests that you will select a,spot for him, their will be emigrants a plenty, and I truly hope nnd trust that nothing may happen to mar the Settlement do not neglect to write by every-op- pertunity and give me all the important News relative to the Country .Prospects etc-I will do all l can for its wellfare and with the hope that we all will be rewarded •I am like many others who want Land near the Town and as much as I can get I am anxious to get a quan- tity of sheep while they can be had low and if Mr Elliott leaves money for me I wish n, pnrt appropriated in that way I expect in a few days to receive a letter from you wrote at Natchitoches-I shall be anxious to hear from you and also Mother nnd your Sister. Mother has been in very ill health for the last three Months if she lives [to] reach the Colorado 1 have no doubt she will enjoy much better health than she does here-1 hope to God you may enjoy good health and succeed in the Grand object-if Bartholomew and Powell nre not employed all the ti.me in surveying you cnn get them to help in making improvements and you will find them good hn.ncls-may God protect us all and that we may yet live in his mercies-Adieu Your Brother J. BRYAN [Addressed:] Stephen F. Austin Esqr Colorado Texas Attention J.E. B. Austin
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Hazel run Decembr the 15-1821- This hasty wrote Scrall will be handed to my dear Stephen by his Brother J Brown, his Sudden departure from this Country has kept me Imployd till the last moment in ordor to fit him of in tolorable decensey-I must refer my dear Son, for the particulars of many things, which I fully .intended to Communicate in my letter; but the late hour of the night, together with my feeble State of health must diprive me of the pleasure of writing you as fully as I in- tended your wellcome letter of the 15 Ultimo I received by Mr Honey with more Sattisfaction than I am able to Express-I am truly rejoiced to find your prospects in.Texes are So much more flattering .than I had any Idea of and that you will have it in your . power to fulfill .the last request of your dear decease\ :father their is no doubt but your little Collony will Soon be filled up with re- spectable worthy Characters, this part of the Country is all alive and nothing Spoken of but the province of Texas Since your pub- lications in the papers has appeard and I have no doubt but one third of the popolation of Missouri will move in the coars of another year, particularly·if H Elliot brings a favourable report when he
• Original in possession of Mrs. Emmett L. Perrs.
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