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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR
fallen - and no public mention maid 1 for my own part I scarcely care to ask the questtion, altho it might have been gratifying as some evidence of the estimation in which he was held in that Country, but Honors and Distinctions now avail me nothing The great .Magicians gone. '' There is no balm in Gilead for the bereaved sister of Robert Handy- Adieu My Dear Sir And may Heaven's Choicest blessings attend yol\, and may you never realize a tithe part of the bitterness and anguish of Spirit I now feel. With Sentiments of high Esteem and regard, Believe me yrs e&c. Emmeline C. Brown. [P.S] *Of course He goes with Jl,mple means, and all the prelim- inary arrangements - I wishd you but to suggest the mode of con- veyance &c &c. &c. No .. 1255 1839 May 8-28, BAR~'ARD E. BEE, VERA CRUZ, [l\lEXICO ps. Letters from Barnard E. Bee to Genl Victoria, Col: Almonte, Admiral Baudin, }Ir. Gorostiza, l\Ir. Pakenham, & the Gommande1· of the French Frigate La Gloire- Vera Cruz, l\Iay 1839. " Copy. 16 p. See nos. 1256, 1259, 1284, 1288, 1290-1, 1298-9, 1301-3, 1314-17.
N"o. 1256
1839 May 8, B. E. BEE, [VERA CRUZ, MEXICO], TO [G.] VICTORIA, [VERA CRUZ, l\1EXICO]7 9
United States S'chooner ·woodbury Wednesday, May 8th. 1839.
General Victoria, Sir,
Entrusted with important communications to the Government of l\Iexico, I have the honor of applying to yow as Com- mandant General of Vera Cruz, to afford me, such facilities as will enable me to confer with the Secretary of State, and be presented in person to his Excellency the President I am very happy to have found on my arrival so distinguished an individual as General Victoria, in whose patriotism as recorded in the history of his country I have so often taken the deepest interest - assured of your hospitality, I remain Very Respectfully Yours Barnard E. Bee "For other documents relating to Bee's mission consult Niles' Register vol. 56, and Garrison, G. P., Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republic 0 } Texas, vol. IL "Copy. In no. 1255.
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