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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 753 1838 June 26, R. H. ROBERTS' TO M. B. LAMAR
Citty of Aransas
June 26th 1838
Dear General This is the second letter that I have written you in regard, to the Location of your Land, and not having received an answer, I sup- posed the letter did not reach you, or that you were busy, and the contents, being according to your wishes, I take it for granted that you are satisfied with what I have done, therefore I proceede to in- form you again, that your Lana is locat:d thus One Third of a League, at the 1\1outh, and on the· E. side of the Copano Bayou, fronting on the Bayou or Creek, and running back for quantity; My object for locating it in that manner, was, that_ if I had Located the League there, I should have taken in, too much bad land on the Bay, which is neithe[r] desirable, for the situati[on] or for the soil It was therefore that I [took] the 1/3 [there] The League & Labor I surveyed above and adjoining said 1/3 fronting on the Creek, it is all beautiful land, and on a very desirable situation, Therefore it would afford me a great pleasure, to hear that is has pleased you and met with your arrangements and aprobation; I have quit work for awhile, for the l\luskitos are so troublesome, the weather oppressively warm, and water so scare that it is impos- sible to work, Paa is at the Point fixed very comfortably in a tem- porary invention, for a house of his own, (as he is very fertile in invintions) consisting of a pile of scantling, so piled up as to leave cracks, to let in the breeze and at the same time, answering for win- dows; the scantling is so slipped back as to admit of doors for too rooms, and the whole is covered with the Flooring there is a family ocupying one of the rooms, a very decent family withall, and I need not mention there is a young Lady the Niece of the married one, that it is tight and tigt to know who is to be her Boe, but such things do not interest you I suppose; I was happy to hear from Brother Saml that Genl Rusk had de- clined all oposition to you, although, I do not think you would have had cause to blame my part of the country, or any other that I have been in, for they all seem, with the exception of a few Soldiers, that boasted on Rusk and such I know you would not want; I received a letter 1:<'rom Sister 0. sending thanks for your kind letter; allso One forom Sister Laura & Sophia, all sending their best respects to you, Sister Sophia after gently scolding you for your confidence in me, dresses it over, by sending a thousand loves, respects, and obligations and entreaty for you to write often; I shall wait until the election is over, and then I 'shall endeavor to arrange my business so as to goe to Mobile; please advise brother
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