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week, can you take care of me one or two days. '' Dinna forget'' me. Oliva A. Mather. Pray tell me, what has become of my long letter-I have looked most anxiously for it. Could you imagine the pleasure you give me in writing I am sure you would be more indu,strious as a correspon- dent.
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[Addressed] To his Excellency
Private Correspondince Apl 21, 1839. Galveston
Mirabeau B. Lamar Houston Ts-
No. 1215
1839 April 23, J. P. HE:XDERSON TO M. B. LAMAR, [HOUSTO~] Paris April 23rd 1839 l\Iy Dr Sir I am now anxiously expecting daily to hear of the arrival here the report of the 'Agent sent by this Government to Texas. as I learned some time since through the U. S. Newspapers that he ar- rived at Galveston in Feb- I apprehend that his delay has been in pusuance of instructions from his Government and I fear also that he rnay yet delay his re- port some weeks until the treaty lately made between the French Admiral & the Executive of 1\Texico through the interpo~ition of l\fr. Packingham the British Minister shall have been ratified by the Mex- ican Congress I shall however feel myself at liberty to urge them to give me a decisive answer to the application for recognition as soon as I hear of the return of their Agent to the U. S. You have doubt- less seen it stated in the U. S. papers that the Federal party in lVfex- ico had propose to make a Treaty with Texas & recognize her inde- pendence provided she would furnish a given number of soldiers to aid Urea in his efforts to restore the Constitution of 1824. That re- port has given the friends of Texas here some uneasiness as they feared Texas would enter into such a Treaty and thereby detract from the high position she has assumed. I have assured our friends that I believe they have nothing to fear from that quarter as I knew the Government and people of Texas would form no sort of political connexion with any l\lexican authority, however spe-cious their ob- ject might· seem to be. I see it also stated still more. recently that Stanta Anna or the Govt. party has sent a secret agent in the shape of a Priest to divert the attention of Texas to another and counter plot. It is fortunate for Texas, if that be the iact; that it is you who know him so well with whom he has to deal (I mean St. Anna). I am glad to hear that you have contracted for a sufficient Naval force to keep the command of the Gulf against Mexico. Noth- ing would so much contribute to the recogntion of the Independence of Texas by England and even by Mexico herself as [the blo]ckade of Vera Cruse and such of the other Mexican ports as Texas may have the power to support efficiently. Such a measure if adopted by Texas would prove to all the world that she is able to maintain her
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