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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
No. 1320 1839 June :2, E. WALLER, AUSTIN,[TEXASJ, 'rO :M. B. LAMAR, HOUSTON, TEXAS 20
City of Austin June 2d 1839
His Excellency M. B. Lamar Dear Sir
I have just received your favour of the 25th ult. per Col. Love. Mr Pilie left on the 31st for Houston for the pur- pose of making the maps. Mr Sandusky who was here a few days since offered to make them for two hundred dollars each, ::\Ir Pilie at first asked four hundred but after I had received Ur Sandusky's proposition offered to do them at the same price. I think that a less number of maps would answer our purpose, but it is optional with you what num- ber shall be made. The location I have selected does not conflict with the town below as you fear. I had been advised to place it below but chose the present site which gives a distance between our lower line and thP upper line of the other town of at least two miles. This selection of mine has been highly approved by all who have seen it and I doubt not will give universal satisfaction. ' The public buildings shall ·be in readiness in time for the next Con- gress. I have two 16 feet square rooms up now and the rest in progress, therefore entertain• no fears upon that score. I shall keep a regular set of books that I may be able to show at any moment the exact state of the business, all receipts and expenditures. Please write me as often as convenient and oblige Respy &- Truly
Your Friend
Edwin Waller
[Addressed] His Excellency :J\I. B. Lamar Per Favour Houston Col. Love Texas
[Endorsed] ·E. Waller
June 2, 1839
No. 1321
1839 . June 3, M. B. LA.MAH, HOUSTON,[TEXASJ, TO LINNEE AND OTHENREE?H[ISEH,FAS'VANNEDEHE 0 ApN-:METNXOAFS]THE SHAW- / _ '-'· , I I T "\v .L , E.: 26 To Lin-nee, 27 And other Chiefs and head-men of the Shawnees. Brothers! We have long suspected that the Cherokees were our secret enemies: that while we were treating them with kindness, and they were "'L. S. (by proxy). ••L. S. A copy of no. 1321, dated May 1839, is in the Records of the Department of State (Texas), Book 39, p. 78. "The copy in the Department of State Record Book has it "Sin-nee".
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