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verbal only) that you are now surveying and laying of your grant for settlement but we have not understood the terms of settlement. A few lines from you on that subject would be very acceptable I had agreed with Mr John Clark last winter to freight your trunk to N. Orleans to be left in care of Col1· Hawkins according to your wishes but the boat started somewhat sooner than he expected owing to a suclcn rise of th£: water he was prevented from complying with his promise I conversed with him a few days past on that sub- ject and he promist that he would faithfully attend to that business this foul as he is going down the river early in the season I could have sent it by some others But I did not think it prudent as there had been many threats against it as your property some time before your brother passed this country but I went down to see l\fistress Vaugbn and she agred to deliver the trunk to me at any time if I would pay the storeage which I agred to, She remoyed the trunk while I was there and promised that no person should know that it was there or in her possession saying I suppose that it was car.riecl off since that time I have heard no threats aga.inst [it]. I have thought good to send on Mr. ,Teffersons manual which you had lent to me Mr. George Duty who has lived with me has promised to deliver the book and letter to you out of his own hand-I have had no late act from your friends in Missouri the last I had per- haps a year past they were well the people in this country have been somewhat sickly this season and I think many will remove to Texas if they a.re not dcscomaged by some thing now unseen Dr. Sr. I am as ever Yours Respectfully "\V ILLI.U[ STEVENSON Stephen F. Austin Esqr. D. S. Mr Ashbrook complains very much of being injured by Mr Bryan and has made several attempts to trouble me for money which he says you charged him to collect off me we have had two arbitra- tions on that subject but he lost it in boath. • One thing surprises me is that he told me after you and he bad settled tha.t he had come out safe a.ncl that you had settled with him like a. gentleman and to his satisfaction and now he· says that he was ruined by that settlement if he cannot collect debts which were paid to Mr Bryan which he says ought to have been paid to him Dr Sr I write this in confidence knowing that you never give him orders to collect a debt which you knew was p:1.id to Mr Bryant it Appears that there has been some neglect of credits which should have been given but was not but this must have been his own fault and not Mr Bryans as he had the books in possession-farewell .Mr S. F. Austin W STEVENSON [Addressed:] The Honl Stephen F. • Austin Province Texas Colorado Po1itness :Mr Duty
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