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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 860
1838 Nov. 3, JAMES' VAN NESS, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TO M[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, [HOUSTON, TEXAS] Bespeaking a friendly interest in the writer ·s younger brother l Cor- nelius Van Ness, of Bexar?]; congratulations upon election. A. L. :s. 4 p. No. 861 1838 Nov. 3 W[ILLIA]M B. HICKS, SHELBYVILLE, TEXAS, TO JOHN M. HA)JSFORD, HOUSTON, TEXAS Henderson's trial in the District Court of Shelby County; impres- -sions of Judge Branch; [William P.] Anderson for Attorney General of the Republic; Judge Rains; legal bu!'iness. A. L. S. 1 p. Note of Hansford [c. Nov. 5?] appended.
No. 862 .
. 1838 Nov. 3, J. HAMILTON TO M. B. LAMAR, [HOUSTON]
Savannah (Geo) Nov 3'd 1838.
Dear Sir.- ----I wrote you by judge Woodward while in New York a few hasty lines in the midst of the distressing anxiety of my mind pro- duced by the tidings which I had received of the illness of my eldest :son- of yellow fever in Charleston. You have doubtless heard of the fatal termination of his disease, and that its result has cost me the loss in his twenty fourth year of one of the best & most dutiful children that ever blessed a Parent- My associate in business who in being the pride of my own manhood promised to be the stay solace & support of my approaching age.---- ----But for the ten children I have left and the extent of my temporal engagements in this world, I should almost be induced under the severity of this infliction to retire and indulge in the solitude of my grief the tender affection I entertain towards the memory of my inestimable son-As it is, a sense of duty has aroused me from my Bed of sorrow- one of the first objects which claimed my attention previous to my leaving New York; was to conclude a negociation which I had commenced in Philadelphia before I heard of my sons sickness in a matter of no small moment for your Republic ----It is scarcely necessary for me to repeat, that on my return from England I met in New York l\fr. A. T. Burnley who requested me to aid him in his negociation for a Loan with the B. U. S., as he thought from my intimacy with Mr. Biddle, I might be able to ac- •Complish it.- As the fact of President Houstons not having ap- pointed me Commissioner never produced the slightest degree of ir- ritation in my mind, however severelly my friend Bee might have.,felt it I did not hesitate to accompany him and during the week I stren- <msly dedicated to this object I should unquestionably have accom-
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