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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 824
1838 Oct. 2, JOHN GARRETT, HOUSTON, [TEXAS], TO [MIRA- BEAU BUONAPARTE], LAMAR, [OAK GROVE, NEAR HOUSTON, TEXASJ Applying for the position of private secretary to Lamar and tutor to his daughter. A. N. S. 2 p.
No. 825
1838 Oct. 3, C. W. BUCKLEY, HOUSTON, [TEXAS], TO M[IRA- BEAU B [UONAPARTE] LAMAR, OAK GROVE, [NEAR HOUSTON], TEXAS Asking Lamar's advice regarding the study of law in addition to the work of his clerkship; the prospects of the mining company that brought him to Texas. A. L. S. 3 p.
No. 826
1838 Oct. 5, J. P. HENDERSON TO [S. HOUSTON]
Paris October 5th 1838
My Dear Genl ·when I last wrote you I informed you that I had, after being in• formed by Count l\Ioli that he was preparing a report upon the sub- ject of Texian affairs for the King and Cabinet, agreed to await their descision upon that subject accordingly I remained quiet until about ten days since when supposing them to have had sufficient time to con- sider the matter I address the Count a note urging an answer to my application for the recognition of Texas. In a few days I received a note from him requesting an interview with me at the Foreign Office. I attended at the time appointed and had quite a satisfactory interview. I found his manner greatly altered from that it was on all other occasions I had seen him. He was evidently in a fine humour and evinced much more interest than formerly in relation to the affairs of Texas. He informed me that his Majestys Govt. was not yet prepared to give me a definite answer upon the subject of the recognition of Texas. That soon after he last saw me (in August last) he had instructed the French Minister at Washington City to send one of his Secretaries to Texas to enquire into and report upon her whole situation to his Government and that they would not be pre· pared to give me a decisive answer until they heard from him. I answered that I was glad to hear that there was so good an oppor- tunity offered for his Govt. to inform itself of the capacity of Texas to maintain herself as an independent Nation as well as the great advantage France would derive by a closer connexion,with her That the U. S. Government had pursued that course before they recognized Texas. I had informed him in my last note that it would soon become my duty to leave France unless I could obtain a favourable answer
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