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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
earliest leisure. The affair of the Custom house at Velasco is all right & Austins conduct every way correct & satisfactory Yours most truly
Wm. H. Wharton [rubric]
[Addressed] Velasco } Feb. 12
[Endorsed] W. H. \Vhorton.
Free
application of apt Commiss
His Excellency ,
Recd. 20th. Feb 1833 . Commissioner for Valasco
Mirabeau B Lamar City of Houston
No. 1063 1839 Feb. 11, JOSEPH I-1. BARNARD, RICHMOND, [TEXAS], TO M[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, HOUSTON, [TEXAS]
Asking the return of a manuscript. A. L. S. 1 p.
No. 1064 1839 Feb. 12, R. R. WILKINS TO M. B. LAMAR, [HOUSTON]
Private
Houston 12th. :F'ebruary 1839
To his Excellency
1\1 B Lamar,
Dear Sir,
You no doubt will be surprized to rec_eive a letter of this cast from me, but necessity compels me to write so. My object in visiting this country was to try and recuperate a ruined and mispent fortune; At one time I had come to the conclu- sion that my object was partially affected, but from my own impru- dence and misconduct, (and I impute it to that solely) it has not been done: At one time, I had the vanity to believe, had I have acted differently from what I did, I would have expected some assistance from you, but alas, it is right I should suffer for my action, my necessities for the maintenance of my family; (which had they not have been here I should have been in the army a private long before this,) have drove me to action that I would blush to have done at any other time, but them I must support and will do it as long as I live, which god grant if there is not a change in our prospects soon may not be long: what is to become of us after this last stock is consumed I am at present unable even to think, I had some conver- sation with my wife this morning and she thought we could make something by moving in town and opening a boarding house, but every article in the house keeping line is so very high that I am 29-L!trary.
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