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PAPERS OF :Urn.ABE.AU BuoNAP.ARTE LAM.AR
I owe Stiff no such an account and besides he is largely indebted to me. Mirabeau B Lamar [Endorsed] 66
128 District Court Fall Term 183!)
Thomas R Stiff ) vs ) assumpit ) l\Iirabeau B Lamar
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No. 1441
1839 Sept. 5, H. THOMPSON, PHILADELPHIA, [PENNSYL- VANIA], TO l\I. B. LAMAR, HOUSTON, TEXAS 66
United States Hotel
Phila 5 Sepr 183!)
My dear General
Enclosed is a little scrap from the ''Virginia Southern Observing it in a Phila paper I cut it out for
Literary l\Iessenger," 67
you. You can devine the author I imagine Genr Dunlap. Doct Richardson- l\Iaj-Dangerfield, 1Ir Calquon & others are here. Texas at the head of the long table is pretty well represented, we happen to be all Lamar men here in our coterie. The sudden demise of your venerable mother, has been a severe visitation, but we neither of us will stay as long. Poor Birdsall too l I shall leave for South Ca, & Ala- next week for Texas- I have been at Niagra-iiontral & Quebec, up thro' l\Iaint! &c; and have seen many Texans. · Dangerfield & Wells began to think that the Secy of War, has for- gotten they are at the North- I have had a Stilleto of an improved shape made for 11. B. L. by a German cutler her [e J of celebrity. Sw-eet has met with some difficulties in N York from some one--in arrest .&c Dunlap happend to be there & bailed him. I shall bring with me Library- Bed Bedding etc etc- and not come to the states again in some time. Abolition-Sectional jealosy-"cotton circular doctrine of the South" general scarcity of money, etc are the ordinary lounge sub- jects of conversation on the tapis here. Rev Brackenridge has done your administration much good- 1\Ir Wm Kennedy- who was at Hous- ton, stands very high in the North, he is a man of most superior attainments, and talents, and in the first society in N York, especially
"This endorsement is written across the account. ••A. L. S. "'.£'.his enclosure is no longer with the Lamar Papers.
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