Gen has gained crediL- I recd. your letter of 8 ui"t and the tellers you enclosed- Toney left for Lhc U.S. on the 29 ult. and Almonle on Lhc 30th- I have never in aU my life known so bad, and base a man as Buller- At Lhe lime he wrole the O P Q letters he was my enemy, a11d yet he wrote them as Lho they came from a friend of mine, and consequently they were very well calculated to rouse the people of Texas into rebellion, and also to throw suspicion on me and perpetuate my imprisonment, and this imprisonment was used by him as a lever to create and keep up excitements in Texas, at lhe head of which he expected to be placed- He thinks, as it appears, that the people of Texas can be made Lools of to promote Lhe personal agrandisement of A. B. - he is greuLly deceived, or I do nol know the people- Everything is quiet here likely lo remain so-That stale of course will remain quiet and Texas in particular-it ough l to do so- Remember me affectionately to Peebles and Johnson, and also to my old friend B. Milam who I am told by Offutt is in Monclova, also to Carbajal and Durste [nform them at home yours [S. F. Austin] Remember me particularly to my friend Ed. Gritten who I presume is in Mon. his family are well. I recd. his letters from Quero and San Luis and thank him also to Garay if he is there as I presume he is I am happier than I have been for 14 years, for during all that period my mind has been laboring and worrying for the benefit of others and for the common good. My thoughts are now confined, or I should say are beginning to confine themselves to a narrower space-myself, my family, my own individual affairs it is a novelty, a new life to me, for heretofore I have thought more of other matters than of my own-but I shaU soon get accustomed to it and be much happier- [ want some money to travel next year this at present is all my cuidado
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