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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 660 1838 Jan. 11, B[RANCH] T[ANNER] ARCHER AND OTHERS, [VELAS'CO, TEXAS] Invitation to the anniversary ball on Feb. 23, at the '' Archer House.'' Broadside. No. 661
1838 Jan. 13, S. HOUSTON TOM. B. LAMAR
City of HO'Uston
13th Jany 1838
Dear General,
If it is possible I pray that you may soon be enabled, to come to the seat of Government. It is verv important for me to leave for the East. My affairs there, are go.ing to wreck, and no means are resulting to replace, or repair them. No very important news is afloat in the political world, since the :Message of Mr. Van Buren, and the course taken, by the Southern members of the U. S. relative to the subject of abolition. I desire much to see you with us.
Truly yr. Friend
Sam. Houston [rubric]
Genl. M. B. Lamar. [Addressed]
[Endorsed] Letter of Genl. Houston Jany 13th 1838
To Genl. 1\'L B. Lamar Brazoria · Texas
Majr. Bennett
No. 662
1838 Jan. 15, J.P. HENDERSON TOM. B. LAMAR
London England
Jan. 15th 1838
My Dear Genl Upon learning a few days since through a correspondent in the U S (no one Texas [ ] ) that you had returned to T'exas I determined to inform you how matters stand here; knowing that you as well as your friends around you will be anxious to learn how we are to be treated by this Govt. Upon my arrival I was received as the Agent of Texas to this Govt. My first object was to explain to Lord Palmerston in a personal con- ference the object of my l\fission. Immedjately after which I ad- dressed a written communication to the Cabinet through Lord Pal- merston in which I set forth fully the grounds upon which Texas claims recognition of this & other Nations. ·when I made that com- munication a majority of the Cabinet were absent from London. They
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