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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 1329 183,9 June 10, E. BURLESON, BASTROP, [TEXAS], TO M. B. LAl\fAR, HOUSTON, [TEXASJ3 5 Bastrop June 10, 1839 Genl l\f. B Lamare Dear Sir I have several tryals to precure by perchease a Good tract of Land for you :oear the site of Goverment I have maide an agreement with Capt Sims for a tract that you will be pleased with I have no doubt from five hundred to one thousand Acres as you like its a bout four }files from the Capitol however the Contract is not binding on my parte unless I shose I have to Give more then I, Expected I would have to do when I Saw you at Houston his price is five dol- lars per acre and Garentees a Good title that is in Good l\fony or double that amount in the promisary Notes of the Goverment he will Not Require more then one half in hand and will Give Good time on the balance I Can only assure you that it is a first Rate tract of -Land and leave it with you wheather it is too much or not and wish answer as Early as posable as he will keep the Land till I hare from you ) your Friend and Servent l\f. B Lamar) Ewd Burleson ) [rubric] ps Judge waller is Getting on finely and I think will be fuly Reddy for the Reception of Congress
E. B
[Endorsed] Edwd. Burleson June 10. '39
[Addressed]
His
Eccelency l\f, B, Lamar
per mister
Houston
Hevelston
No. 1330
1839 June 10, l\f. HUNT, NEW ORLEANS, [LOUISIANA], TO l\f. B. LAl\fAR, HOUSTON, [TEXASJ 36 New Orleans 10th June 1839 My Dear General. I have just learned that Colo Bee's mission is at an end as Santa Anna demanded as the basis of any negotiation he might propose the re-union of Texas to Mexico. This of course he declined and I hope and have but little doubt with becoming spirit and dignity. I am, I had liked to have said I was glad of it I will say I am glad of it. We shall be fourced to treat the recreant tyrant in a l\fanner that· will advance us in a National point of view and make us as a nation one of the most powerful in the world eventually. "My voice is for war'' and as Bustamaente has expressed his detrr- mination to invade us the sooner we are ready the better for our interests Please communicate to me your intentions. I should not be the
"A. L. S. ••A. L. S.
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