the day I took the Command of the Army 6th of May last we have marched without any of the usual comforts of an army through the most sickly part of Texas and up lo this day we have not had twelve deaths from sickness and out sick list is now remarkably small not having fifty and an army of fifteen hundred men this fully confirms your opinion as to the health of the Country would it not be well for you to go on to Charleston I think you could form some plan there to get a loan of two or three hundred Thousand Dollars for Texas I hope I shall soon see you in Texas let me hear from you often we are already much indebted to you and I know we shall be under further obligations Give my best respects to all our friends and accept for yourself the renewed assurance of my highest respect and friendship Truly Yours Tho J Rusk
To Henry 1\1 Clay Dahleburga
[3864] [AUSTIN to STRANGE]
Columbia, Texas, Aug 4, 1836.
Mr. J. Strange,
Dear· Sir: I have seen and examined the portraits of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, President of Mexico, and of Colonel Almonte, painted by you, and have no hesitation in saying that I think the likeness of General Santa Anna very striking and exact. I have frequently seen and conversed with him in the palace of Mexico when he was in the same military address, (that of a General of Division, the highest rank in the !Vlexican army,) and think you have delineated it very correctly. I was also with him at the house where he was confined as a prisoner near this place on the 4th of July last, when he delivered to me his letter of that date to President Andrew Jackson, soliciting his mediation to terminate the war between Mexico and Texas, on the basis of a recognition of the Independence of the latter by both nations. I think that Colonel Almonte's is a likeness but not so striking as Santa Anna's. Respectfully, your most ob't, S. F. Austin
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