468 TEXAS STATE LIBRARY • No. 1090 183f} Feb. 24, P. 0. LUMPKIN, FORT HOUSTON, [TEXAS], TO MIRABEAU B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, HOUSTON, TEXAS Application for appointment as government agent under the law for locating the new capital. A.. L. S. 2 p. No. 1091 1839 Feb. 24, J. W. ROBINSON TO 1\1. B. LAMAR
Gonzales Feb 24. 1839
To, His Excellency
Mirabeau B. Lamar,
President
of the Republic of Texas
n·r Sir,
Capt. Mathew Caldwell of this place accepts the appointment you were pleased to extend to [him] as Captain for the term of 3 months to range on the frontiers of Gonzales county, & will proceed to raise the company as soon as pos- sible. He also wishes me to inform you that he accepts the appoint- ment of Capt. in the Regular Regt. commanded by Col. Burlison, as you were pleased to request me to inform him, and the assign- ment of the post on the San Marks River.- But he is informed through Col. Wells that all the officers of Burleson 's Regt has been appointed, and no place left for him, nor has he been appointed. If so your Excellency must have forgotten the promise made to me for Capt. C. & also to Col. Burleson & to Switzer, & I hope he can yet be provided for, as I do think him the b_est Capt. of Spies in Texas, even srnperior in many respects to the old veteren Deaf Smith. He caught a mustang stallion the other day, & held him until his fellow hunter shot an other, & skinned a larriette to tie him, & they have him here now, an exploit not surpassed by Gen. Putman's wolf story.
Your friend truly
James W. Robinson
[Addressed] To. His Excellency
[Endorsed] J. W. Robinson Gonzales- Feb. 24, 1839. '
Mirabeau B. Lamar City of Houston
Texas
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