PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR 579 endorsing T. J. Golightly for chief justice of Harrisburg County.] D.S. 1 p. All except signatures illegible.
No. 1284
1839 Jllav 20, B. E. BEE TO THE COl\Il\IANDER OF THE FRENCH FRIGATE "LA GLOIRE," [VERA CRUZ, l\IEXICO]8 3
Vera Cruz. Monday morning, l\fay 20th. 1839.
To the Commander of the French Frigate "La Gloire." My dear Sir,
The mail from Mexico has just arrived. I understand Genl. Victoria is ordered to send me out of the country - if so, will you allow me to take refuge on board your hospitable Ship La Gloire - until your Steam Ship is ready for the Havana - in which, I should be happy to take passage under your permis- sion - with remembrance to Captain Lugeol,
I am my dear Sir
with unfeigned esteem respectfully Yours . Barnard E. Bee
No. 1285
1839 May 21, R[OBERT] J[OHN] WALKER, JACKSON, [MISS~ ISSIPPI], TO l\I(IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAl\IAR AND l\IEl\IUCAN HUNT, [HOUSTON], TEXAS
Introducing General Charles l\I. Price. A. L. S. 1 p.
No. 1286
1839 May 21, N. TOWNSEND TO l\L B. LAl\IAR, (HOUSTON]
"'o his Excellency Mirabeau B Lamar, . The undersigned would respectfully i·epresent that he came to this place upwards of two weeks, since for the express prnrpose of (for the first time) filing his claims for adjustment and allowance for property which he lost and was destroyed by acts of this Govern- ment,- that during the week after his arrival he succeeded in getting a small portion of his claims adjusted by the Auditorial board, which is for his loss at San Felipe, by the burning of that place in l\Iarch 1836.-the board allowed me only what I proved my goods to have been worth at the time ($9.500) without any interest; to be paid in the promisory notes of this Govt. - the remainder ($1800) was for ' my building and was given to me in the ordinary military drafts.- all of which I obtained this clay a week, and have remained since that time expressly for the purpose of drawing from the Treasury the "'Copy. In no. 1255.
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