THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 469 Settled, E B account was drawn of[£] before your Father made his last visit to the mines and charged him to have his ready by the time he returnd as he wished to have all his business closed before his departure, during his absence I saw E B, accot in the office and think it amounted to near Six thousand dollars, but the account has never been seen since I left it locked up in the office and as I had the key with me I can not account for its disappearing- I find from your letter to J B A[ustin] we Shall not have the happiness of seeing you for a long time to come. I can not express the disap- pointment l felt when I read that part of your letter that Speaks of the multiplicity of businiss you have to attend to and no time set for your comeing to Missouri your Sister and myself had flat- tered ourselves, with the pleasing Anticipation of Embraceing you in the Spring when we found the nature of your Arduous undertaking in forming your new Coloney prevented your Comeing in the fall, great as my desire is to See you, I do not wish you to return, untill you can in a measure, Extricate yourself from difficulty, this I think you can do in the coars of next Summer from the money you will receive from Emigrants, this was the way your dear father ex- pected to rais a fund Sufficient to put all his plans in opperation in Texas and to redeem Lucy and her Children his Credittors had given him three years to pay them, I am very Sertain my dear Son would not be distressed by those you owe provided you write them and giv~ them reason to think you will pay them all as soon as possibly- every Sole within my knowledge has the moast exalted opinion of the enterprise, every 'mail brings letters from all quarters. :Mr B is kept busy in answering letters, in Short nothing is Spoken of but the Texes fever, the times is So hard and the people so dissatfyd, with the country, or rather with those who govorn it, I really think one half of the farmers will move this year, provided no Stop is put to emigration may god in his Infiinite goodniss prosper your ex- erticms and hasten the period when you will have a home for your mother in hur diclineing years, for the remainder of my days I must be dependant upon my Children for Support, . . . I can not close this long epistle without making Some observations on a Sub- ject which has deeply interested my mind ever Since I recoverd from my late Illniss and find that Mr Bryan will move next fall, if you Succeed; he will dispose of this property and the Iden. of leaveing the body of my dear Husband on the land of Stra.ngers, in an open field, is truly distressing to my feelings I have thought if it was possibly for my dear Son to come to this Country next fall, the body could be taken up and placed in another Coffin, the one he was laid in was of pine and of the roughest worck, the heat of the weather was so Intensely warm, together with the high state of Infla.mation
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