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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
and hope ere long to see you here as it will not now be long before your house will be ready ·for your reception. · Considering it highly important that the streets should be named before the sales I hope that you will name them and would suggest the propriety of naming the streets running up from the river after the different rivers in our Republic commencing at the Sabine naming the principal street running up to Capitol square Colorado Avenue, and the cross streets 1st. 2nd. &c. Respy. and Truly Your friend Edwin Waller [rubric] No. 1364 1839 July 11, SA:M:[UE]L M. WILLIAMS, GALVESTON, [TEXAS], TO 1.f[IRABEAU] B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, [HOUS- TON, TEXAS] Their interview on the 5th; his own hope for "a state of things bor- dering on such as we both desire"; endorsing Ralph Kellogg for consul at Boston. A. L. S. 1 p. No. 1365 1839 July 13, M. HUNT, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, TO M. B. LA1.IAR, [HOUSTON, TEXASJ 65
Jackson :M:ississippi 13th. July 1839
To
His Excellency
M. B. Lamar
Prest. of Texas My Dear General,
I have not yet had the pleasure of hearing from you since my arrival in Mississippi. Letters from your private Secre- tary (Ur Ransom) and your physician (Dr Smith) has caused me much solicitude for your health; but I most earnestly hope it is entirely restored and that I shall in a day or two receive a letter from you. In the mean time, having just made an informal proposition to the Union Bank to purchase our million bonds, or a part of them, and received assurences from the President of great confidence in our ability to pay, the stability of our Government, &c. &c., but an inability on the part of the Bank to purchase, I avail myself of the earliest opportunity to communicate to you, the impossibility of obtaining any means here from this, or any other Banking institution in this State I have great apprehensions that we shall be invaded by the enemy in a short time; and from the private letters from Mexico and the tone of the public journals of that country, I should not be surprised if it occurs as early as the first of September. Without any means, except our Treasury issues to meet such an event, should the fource
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