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PAPE~S OF MIR.A.BEAU BuoN.A.P.A.RTE L.A.lli:.A.R
accounts, important that I receive an answer, with as little delay as is prncticable.
With sentiments of high consideration, I am your Excellency's l\lost obedient and Humble Servant, Gamaliel S. Olds [rubric]
[Endorsed] G S Olds Saratoga Sprgs June 1839. Private
[Addressedl His Excellency
Mirabeau B. Le Marr President of the Republic, Houston, Texas.
Via New ·Orleans
No. 1347
1839 June 20, W[ILLISJ ROBERTS, GALVESTON", [TEXAS], TO M[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, HOUSTON, [TEXAS] Introducing Admiral Ribaud; Lamar's health_- A. L. S. lp. No. 1348 1839 Jwne 22, C. TOMPKINS, WASHINGTON, TEXAS, TO 1\1. B. ' LAl\IAR, HOUSTON, TEXAS 47 Washington Texas Jun 22d. 1839 Dear Sir I am now making arrangements to Send my agent who is Residing in Poughkeepsie New York on a Tour to England & France. To Negotiate & make .M:oneyed. arrangements & to do commercial buisness between those Countries & Texas if you Can serve me with Letters to the govnt. Consul or diplomatic Agent residing in those Countryes. and A Letter To whom it may concern that I am responsible for all & Singular the Contracts I make at home & Abroad & am entitled, To all good faith & Credit as a Citizen & Merchant residing in this republic, the object I have in view in sending an agent to those Countrys is to Import all Kinds of goods. Bring them To this Country & Ship Cotton & Prod- ucts of this Country Back in return. Open & Establish facilities for mechants To doe buisness in those Countries & haYe in the trade a Regular Line of Packets . so soon as the Trade Justifies. I purpose Importing 3 Steam Loco J\fotive Ploughs for Cultivating the pararies, [sic] also To Emigrate 500 fl.rt [sic] rate grain growing farmers, To Setle in the Mountainous Country, to produce those products the N ecesi- ties of this Country so much neads, & if possible to Establish a Company 'ro develope the minral wealth of this most higly favoured Country. My Agent J\Ir. Peter L Carman, of Poughkeepsie, will Embark for
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