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reiterate it Scott will not take the $500, unless you will pay the cost of suit and the attorney's fee, and leave to him the right to collect the Ballance of Stiff, he giving you a joint claim & transfer to you the amt you pay him, this proposition I stated to you in my former letter which proposition is oppen to you untill the first of November 1. The attys & Costs will amt to about $80 If you agree to do so let me know immediately I did not Receive the money of Col Love untill about a month ago- I can pay the Eighty Dollars)or you & settle when I come to Austin I have the Honor to Subscribe myself your friend John V. Norton Addressed: To His Exclv Genl M. B. Lamar Austin Mr. J. W. Eldridge No. 1915 1840 Oct. 9, LOUIS P. COOKE, NAVY DEPARTMENT, AUSTIN, [TEXAS] TO [l\HRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR, AUSTIN, TEXAS] Enclosing copies of the latest despatches to Commodore E. W. Moore. N. S. 1 p. No. 1916 1840 Oct. 9, J. H. STARR, NACOGDOCHES, [TEXAS] TO M. B. LAMAR, AUSTIN, [TEXASJ 1 ~ Private Nacogdoches Oct. 9th 1840 Dear General Circumstances resulting from the decease of •Gener:il K. H. Douglass (who died a few days since) will prevent me from visiting Austin previous to the convening of Congress as contemplated. I was very desirous of complying with the promise con- tained in my recent letters 13 to you, and had made the necessary prepara- .tions for the journey when that event occurred. As my sole object however was to aid the head of the Treasury Department in preparing the annual reports, I hope that no great embarrassments will result from my detention here- Of this I feel very well assured when I re• fleet that Mr. Levey & Mr. Jewett are both now familliar with the busi- ness of the Office during the year, and (in case there is no other person in charge of the Dept.) can embody the necessary information to be laid before your Ex'cy and Congress- . Mr. Ransom who passed through this place a few days since on bis way with dispatches to General Tarrant on Red River stated that Mr. Menefee had been invited to succeed me, but declined the appointment- I had hoped he would accept it- There is much complaint here respecting the military expedition now
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