plaet• (Velasco) and the mouth of the Dt1ffalo bayoll, one hundred cords ash wood, said wood to be spLil and of an average lenglh of four f e~l, al the price of four dollars per cord. Said delivery lo be made al the following rates and limes, viz, twenty-five cords within two weeks after an accession on your part lo lhis proposal, twenty five cords every two weeks thereafter until completion of the contract.
Verry Respectfully Your Obt. servl. A. Somervell Sec. of War
[3607] [SWARTWOUT Lo LEWIS]
New York
3 July 1836
Sunday
My Dear Colonel:
AL two o'clock this morning there came a youth with a bundle of tellers from you and Treat and Stowe, announcing the glorious tidings that the Senate had authorized the President to recognize the Independence of Texas; and, I have not the least doubt but what the lower house will have endorsed it yesterday; and, further, that the old man wiU give it to us promptly on the 4th. God grant it. Say to Treat, if he is still with you, lhat supposing it was douhtful [illegible] he is still with you, I did not write to thank him and friend Stowe for their welcome letters. Stowe is disposed to be jocular upon the occasion and so is Treat. They be d---d. Had Santa Anna gone as Zavala said he intended, you would have {illegible] H--1 & ! For, nolwithslanding you all seem to treat the matter lightly, it would have ruined Texas. She would have got no more money nor sympathy. Santa Anna would have deceived them, they would have looked and felt like fools, no further confidence could have been placed in the judgment or integr.ily of the Texas Government, and then your cause must have been in a most ruinous predicament. But, the people have saved Texas from disgrace and ruin. I think that when you got Read's and Whiting's letters, you musl have changed your minds a little ahoul my foolish and extravagant notions. It appears lo nH! that the sound men, I mean those sound in head and heart
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