THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 501 in a misernble Stnt.e of health, brought on in•a great measure by his on Imprudence I am told he drinks hard and is hardly ever Sober unhappy young man, I fear by all accounts, he is not [long] for this world- I have directed Mr Honey in case he does not meet you in New Orleins, to inquire what is the price of buck horns for handels for knives and if theay will bring any thing I ' will send them down to your friend Mr H[awkins]-when Mr Honey takes another trip also the plough shars and I wish you to let me Jmow if you wish me to send do-,rn any of my things, if you and Brown go to houskeeping I could send several articles that you will want, I wish my dear Son to Jet me know what time he thinks we had better go down, your Sister and myself will not wish to spend an- other winter in this unfriendly climate we are sitting [a]round a large fire and can Scarcely keep ourselves warm. the frost, not- withstanding the Sceason is so far advanced is So sevear that all the fruit is killed and in the place of the gay verdure of Spring- the face of nature assums the appearance of Autum, I care not how Soon I leave So unpleasant Climate and so very unfriendly to my Constitution- Mr Bryan is now in St Louis, he left your Sister and famaly all well, your old friends in this place are all well except Nancy Bates She has been Sick all winter as well as my self, but has not recrnted so fast as I have, She is I t.hink in a low state of health, tell Brown his poor Cousin Maria ha.s been gilted by ilf r W a gentleman he had form 4 a high opinion of-he was to have been back in October last and in the coai·s of the winter he was to be maried to L1J B, he has not wrote hur for a long time and it tis re- ported he is married to a lady of large fortune in Virginia, this may be So, and it may not- I wish my dear Son to be particula.r on the Subject of religious toloration, Some Says every permanent Settler must become roman Catholicks-I can not think or beleive that so arbitory a Sistem will _be adopted if it Should, it will put a Stop to Emigration, if you Should happen to meet with Honey in Orleins I will thank my Son to send me Some good Snuf and the· Journal your dear father wrote many years ago-he always kept it in his writing desk-Mr Schoolcraft wishes to pubblish the Biog- raphy of his life, and wished me to Send him a memorandum of t.he dates ... and when he came to this Country with a variety of particulars two tedious to mention in a letter, I thought if ... he feels himself under many obligations to my clear departed Husband for the friendship and hospata.Iity shone him when he came to this _cotmtry, he is now in New york preparing to publish an account of his late travels. He wished me to send a Short account of the life o_f your father from the time he left Virginia till his death, I must bid you farewell Mr H has arrived to bid adieu to his wife and
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