[ 1058 J [BORDEN to AUSTIN J
San Felipe Nov 1st 1835
Dear General,
Your note lo Mr. Jack and myself, I received late last
night-
I regret lo hear of your ill health, and wish it was in my power to send you some suitable nourishment for the body, as well as for the mind however, I think we have nothing lo complain of with respect lo the taller. I will use my utmost in raising and forwarding "the one thing needful" I think loo that the consultation ought to make provisions in the case, and hope and trust they will l am just now going down lo see what can be done. You will see by the paper that the council has appointed me collector, and in all prol,ability money will be paid on land, being much due. I send you S70,. which is all I have coUectcd on your account since you left except $5 which I sent by a gentleman which took charge of the pack horse senl wilh your tent, etc.- I would send you some on my own account but for the printing establishment which al this Lime is a heavy burden upon us Have nol received 75 dollars yet on our subscription: and our expenses for workmen, making improvements etc has been 250 dollars per month. So long as the war lasts it will be a dead and heavy weight upon us- Thomas writes pressingly for me to come to camp- If I should go, the business could not go on. Dear friend I hope the intelligence from the United States will so encourage lhe men under your command, that they will not think of abandoning their post. Tom writes me that you intend to hold on so long as you have 10 men and that you will waste your health by inches before you will retreat. May the God of Hosts protect and preserve you many years G. Borden Jr I Inclose (50) fifty dollars and send you twenty by the hands of Mr. McFadden who will hand you this-The money being the same that I collected for you.- G. B.
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