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I would also be very glad to know your prospects; (I have supposed them Grand) and of your final Prosperity. Major Hawkins is to be the bearer of this and will also be the bearer of your answer; from the safety of the conveyance I have asked your opinion on one point to which you, perhaps, may have some hesitation in answering, to wit, the second proposition, and should you not deem the safety of the conveyance sufficient guard, you have a cypher which we once lea1"Md togather which wul elude any de- tection. I presume your prospects are very flattering, and that you are very much pleased with the country, and under such circumstances men are very apt to exagernte on their ideas, but I presume it is hardly necessary to remark this to one who so well understands the Phylosophy of the Human Mind. It is unnecessary to undertake to give you any details of affairs in your old Stamping-ground, as you will receive them in a more satisfactory way by the bearer. D. DuNICLIN [Addressed:]' Stephen F. Austin Esqr Province of Texas Colorado Politeness of Majr· Jn°· Hawkins
E. A. ELLIOTI TO JAMES BRYAN l
St Genevieve Deer 26 [1821]
Mr JAMES BRYAN Dr Sm Mr Hatch from the Little Rock call'd on me yesterday Eight days from that place- I am happy to Inform you he passed Brother Henry and party Friday morning near the Crossing of St Francis River- all in good health and high glee- Henry in- form[e]d you of the proposed arrangements for Quieting all fur- ther altercation between the contending parties-Hatch says the oppisite party are much chagrind at the result, while our party exult at the prospect of peace and rapid Improvements, the printing office is to be extablished imediately and many respectable Familys will soon move in, particular our Officers of Government and our Judges Lawyers etc-, another circumstance will eventuly be in our favour the Surveyors appointed by our Government to run the line of the Choctaw Treaty have by express from Washington been ordered to stop any further proceedings on that line and have come in- Hugh BraclJey from Long Prarie also came in as express stopping all Further surveys of Public Lands South of the Arkansas untill the actual line between the U. Sta.tes and Texas have been
• Orl&'fnal in poSBeSSlon ot HrB. Emmett L. Perr7.
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