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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
have done in any country. 1\fy position enables me to obtain the entree to the best society. The consequence has been that I have been compelled to spend much more money than is convenient for me to spare from my private fortune" "The truth is the Government will be compelled to raise the pay of the Ministers in this country a!_!d England otherwise no one except a man of fortu_ne can afford to hold the office. My health has suffered much of late from the severity of the climate and I must spend the next winter in the South. Remember me most Kindly to Genls. Lamar, Johnson, and. Dunlap as well [as] other friends
Yours truly
signed
Henderson''
To
Genl. Memucan Hunt
Secretary of the Navy Houston Texas
No. 1159
1839 Nar. 30, HENRY S[TUART] FOOTE, NEW ORLEANS, [LOUISIANA], TO MIRABEAU B [UONAPARTE] LAMAR, HOUSTON, [TEXAS]
Introducing Mr. Buckley, of Mississippi. A. L. S. 1 p.
No. 1160
1839 JJ1ar. 30, R [!CHARD] G. DUNLAP, NEW ORLEANS, [LOUISIANA], TO l\I[IRABEAU] B[UONAPART:E] LAMAR, HOUSTON, TEXAS
Introducing Ed. Howard. A. L. S. 1 p.
No. 1161
1839 Illar. 31, J. HAMILTON TO M. B. LAMAR
New Orleans
March 31st 1839
l\Iy Dear Sir
I found on my arrival here that Mr Reilley had not negociated the Loan and had left the Bonds in the safe keeping of a friend, and therefore within my reach if they could be made· available to raise l\Ioney.- ----------Altho' I could have hypothecated them whilst I was here, on my way to Texas if his Loan had not then been depending, since my departure I am sorry to say that there has arisen such an intense pressure for Money that the Bank which could have then made the negociation can not now hazard the issue
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