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PAPERS OF l\fIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
the progress of your affairs- If I can he of any service command me- 1\fy address is 17 Tavistock Square London. W.K. • [Addressed] [Endorsed l Private Wm Kennedy His Excellency Sep 20. '39 General :Mirabeau B. Lamar President of Texas Care of William Bryan Esq Texas Consul New Orleans Louisiana United States Per Liverpool Steamer- via Liverpool. No. 1457 1839 Sept. 20, W. PINCKNEY HILL, BASTROP, [TEXAS], TO ~1[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, [HOUSTON, TEXAS] Invitation to stay at the writer's house while in Bastrop. A. L. S. 1 p. No. 1458 1839 Sept. !24, S. A. ROBERTS, WASHINGTON, [D. C.], TO M. B. LAMAR, HOUSTON, TEXAS 83 Strict[ly] Confidential Washington Sept 24th 1839 Dear Genl For some time past an Editor 0£ one of the leading Journals in New York, has been urging me to write something £or his paper, either in regard to the actual State of the Country at this time, its political history &c or which he prefers anecdotes of the principal & leading men of the Country particularly 0£ those who £ought her battles- This latter style of writing I would much prefer and hav[e] even attempted to lick into shape some few anecdotes I recollect to have heard related by different individuals-I have found however in every instance in which I have made the attempt to write from memory, that something has escaped, some material link bas been accidentally lost which I could only supply from my own forge, and which would [at] once be recognised as spurious metal by all who might chance to read it and who are acquainted with the facts-In reflecting how I may remove this difficulty it has occured to me that I coul<l. hit upon no better devire than to apply to you for a few short notes which I can afterward spin out at my leisure-I wish particularly that you should put me in pos- session 0£ all the £acts in regard to the meeting 84 or duel as it might be termed which you had with the Mexican officer on horse back, on the 83 A. L. S. "'An account of this meeting of Lamar with three Mexicans on horseback on the day before the battle of San Jacinto, in which Lamar saved the life of Genl. Thomas J. Rusk, fa printed in the Colorado Tribune of Nov. 12, 1849, P· 1, an·d is noted as being an extract from The Lives of Texian Heroes.
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