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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
JOSEPH H. JlA. WKINS TO AUSTIN
MY DEAR Sm, This will be handed you by M• Seth Ingram-A gentleman of high respectability-and spoken of as a well qualified surveyor- He visits your grant to become a settler-Such men cannot but be valuable to your establishment, and you will derive pleasure in ·promoting his interest as far as you can conveniently do so. Jos H I-lAwKINs May 30, 1822 Judge S. F. Austin
JOSEPH H. HAWKINS TO AUSTIN
May 31. 1822
MY DEAR Sm, I have wrote you so repeatedly and so .fully that I have some i!ifficulty in determining what subject now to undertake. You will have visited Mexico at a most eventful and Auspicious moment-- Have things resulted as you desired? Do they now stand on a sane and permanent basis? I send you a letter inclosed directed to myself-It is from Rielly 1 at Mexico-open and read it. He could not comprehend w_hy I recommended Ervine [Erwin] and his views-I wrote you fully on t,his subject--! took a share in E's Comp 1 . It wns necessary to do so-They would have left here otherwise with feelings of hostility- • I have a written stipulation that my membership and agency was recd with a knowledge of my interest in your grant, and that nothing was desired or expected not promotive of your interests. The fact is that their success is yours-As to the respective value of the grants, that will depend on local advantages-To make Oa1-rol and others friends who were to be our neighbors was no small affair- Having mentioned Carrol1s names it is necessary to remind you He has been and will continue our friend-and wishes to be our neigh- bour-You will provide for him accordingly- I told Gen 1 • R ... on yesterday that Gen 1 •• Trespa]acios had no ground or cause of Complaint agt you or your friends, and that I blamed him R, with the bad feelings (if any now existed) which might be displayed- I hope most sincerely you had an opportunity of meeting Gen 1 Tres- palacios in Mexico. I need make no comments on the facts disclosed by the Jetter from Mexico-
• Above, AprJI 26, 1822.
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