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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
Attend to your sf1tdies ancl learn to write the Spanish grammati- cally as well as to speak it correctly, devote all your time and atten- tion to this point-I have not sent you to the Colorado or given you anything to do for the last summer because I wished all your time should be exclusively devoted to study [of] the Spanish and I flatter myself with the pleasing hope of finding you very; much advanced in that language-if I am disappointed I shall really be much vexed if anything can vex me with my beloved and only Brother. Give my respects to Baron Bastrop and inform hiin that he must not let my long absence, obliterate me from his memory he must come and live with me on the Colorado when I get comfortably fixed there-I shall be able to do a great deal for the ,Govr· or any others who befriend and aid me, and I am particularly anxious to be on friendly terms with Trespalacios, I can be of very great service to him in various ways and so can he be to me-I have the confidence of the Government here and have no doubt of getting all things well arranged-All our future hopes are now in this Empire and we must conduct ourselves so as not to loose the good name we left behind us•in the United States, and so as to acquire ~ he confidence of the government we have adopted, to do this we nust be correct in our deportment and rigidly faithful in all our ngagements and particularly so in whatever is entrusted to us by the Government-let this be an everlasting rule for you and you will not err- I remember that the last time our un.fortunate family were all united was four years ago this day in Herculaneum You no doubt have not forgotten it-It was the last time we were permitted [to l assemble under the Paternal roof Since then how many fatiguec; and troubles have we all experienced! but what is past cannot be recalled. I hope we have gained some experience which will benefit us, and I trust that if our Dear Mother and Sister are preserved that it will not be much longer before we shall be once more living under the same roof, or in the neighborhood of ench other. There has been and still exists in the province of Vera Cruz some difficulties, that Province is in a state of insurrection, but the in- surgents have been defeated at Xalapa and it is expected that a few days more will totally distroy and suppress them-farewell. Stiul,y lw1·d attend to the Governor live frugal, and sell tlte a1·ticles to the best advantage- [STEPHEN F. AUSTIN.]
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