If , •011 can 1rd alona without selling land I wish you lo do • e i, ~ • so. as it will be a sacrifice lo sell now. The league adjoining and below St. Felipe, and the one on the West Bernard (a prairie kagt1t') mu~l not be sold for any price as I may dispose of it otherwise. I send you some seeds. I refer you lo ~Ir Grayson for all . . . thr 1wws. I hope that a dead calm will reign aU over Texas for many years to come-and that there will be no more excitements of any kind whatevr.r. Collon will be high here next year. There are a great many largr factories building in various places by foreigners-the demand for Trxas cotton will be very great, clelivcrecl al Vera Cruz. I do not write lo my friends, because I cannol write lo all, and Grayson can tcU them all the news. I look forward with the most heartfelt anxiety to the period when I shall be restored to you all once more, so that I can enjoy your society and that of my friends in a log cabbin, or a camp-far very far from the intrigues and vilinous intanglemcnts of palaces and politics. My opposition to a territory last year has been the main cause of all my entanglements-but 1 did my duty and under the same circumstances I would do again just as I did in 1833. I have more friends here now than I ever had, and so has Texas-my exposition has had a good effect-tho I am told that I shall be attacked in the newspapers, or that a reply will be given to it etc. I fear nothing from such an attack. Remember me to all your neighbors and my friends in general when you sec them and to ]. H. BeU and the Jacks, ~lcKinny, MiUer, ~1artin, Burnett etc. in particular Love lo all the children. I hope they arc learning fast. Love to Eliza and Phillips. ~Ir. Grayson has a project to establish a collon factory by a company which I am much in favor of and have authorised him to take stock for me. Texas has cost me trouble and labor enough, and I hope yet lo see some happy days there. I have seen but few as yet. I presume my friend S. ~'I. Williams is at Monclova, for whi1:h reason I do not write to him. I requested you and him to d1:stroy the lcllers I sent hy Offutt without showing them to any one, whi1:h I hope was done. Calm, a dead calm, is all Lhal Texas nr.1:ds-mah good crops, and send them lo Vera Cruz, Tampico etc. Rcmr.mher me lo H. Austin and his family. Tell them to keep
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