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you put off, ·we arrived at St Antonio on the 15 th Instant. Came with my surveyin[g] Instruments thinking I might get into Business In that way perhaps I am Disappointed in all views but the sight of the Country that is a satisfaction To me that I have seen so Desireable a Country n.nd Climate I wish you to write me as soon as the nature of times will admit and give me a true statement of the government If Times are settled to your wishes or Expectations and there should be [a] good Job of surveying to be had more than you have already promised be good Enough to Try to procure a place for me and let me know what time will be best to Come I would not be worth while to Come for less than a Job of five or six hundred dollars I also wish you to Try to suit ine in a situation of Land such a one as you think will suit, on Conditions the Tearms of the government will suit- John Jones give his Compliments to you and told me to Inform you he Recd a Letter from you which gave pleasure and put him In mind of old times when you all put in your time in splendor About Mine a burton, But the most of the young men and Ladies that was grown when you left there, Is married and scattered off from that place- If there should be any profitable place to fill in your section of Country which is Not Disposed of If you think John Jones Could fill I should be glad to have It offered to him I am somewhat afraid I shall Not ·Get Him to Come Along with me He is doing very well in mine a-burton he is clerk of the Circuit Court and recorder and post Mas- ter and is doing a very good business in Keeping Publick House, Augustis Jones was Red hot for Coming when I left Home but Many accounts may have Reached that since I left home we scarcely ever could hear the Truth as we came on to this Country I have not time nor Room at present to say much More so I will Conclude by sub- subsc1·ibing my self your sinceare friend and humble servt JOHN HAWKINS [Addressed:] Mr 'Stephen F. Austin To the care of James B. Austin St Antonio
.A.usTIN TO J. H. HAWKINS 1
[About May 1, 1822.] 2 DEAR Sm:-After a long and tedious journey, I am at length.at the fountain bead of the new born na,tion. All I will say at pres- ent, (in regard to the country over which I have passed, since I left Texas,) is, that no one after reading Humboldt and other writers, can pass through this country without being sorely disappointed at 1 From the Lo1"8v'1le Pu.bllo Aclverttser, August 14, 1822 (Durrett Collection, Unl\"er- slty of Chicago), quoting from Le~in,gto,i Public ,1clvertuer, no date. Copied by the editor. • Austin arrived In llfexlco April 29, 1822. See below, letter to Brown .A.nstln, May 22, 1622.
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