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useless to flatter you-Therefore please to anticipate the necessity of my doing what this letter is intended for.- With great respect & esteem, yours Eli Harris. P. S.- mr. President, I cannot close this appeal to you _and to your country with- out stating that there are many men living in your (or my country) who were present when I presented the Star and flag-and stating also that there ar:e men now living in this town and some beside who live in different parts of this parish who saw my draft of the Star and flag before I entered into the Texian Service.- For this I will refer you to Tobian Gibson, to Claudian Gibson, to Gadi Gibson, Joseph ?.Iacquillan, to Doct. Dowing, of Port Gibson, in the state of Mississippi.- I have the honor to be with great respect and esteem,
Your obt. Servt.
Eli Harris.- [ rubric]
No. 1967
1841 Ja.,;,. 18, J. WEBB, AUSTIN, [TEXAS] TO :\I. B. LA:MAR, INDEPENDENCE, [TEXASJ 33
Austin, 18th. Jany. 1841
My dear Genl.-
I heard from you a few days since by Judge Cole, & re- gretted to learn that your health had not much improved-I had hoped that travelling and getting into cheerful society, would, by removing the gloom which seemed to hang around you here, have restored you, if not to entire health, at least to comfort & a comparative exemption from pain; and I still hope, that as you progress farther, you will feel better- Dr. Herbert has been with me about ten davs and will leave tomorrow for the United States-He will return by D~. Roxie's for the purpose of se~ing you, and with the expectation of taking you on if you are able to pursue your journey-I had inten<led to send your buggy by Mr. Hale, but the weather has been so bad, and the road[s] are now so muddy, that he declines taking it; I will howe r Yer] send it down to Galveston by l\Ir Eldridge who will leave [in] about a fortnight- There has nothing orcur'd in our politi[cal] circles which I think would interest yon-There is much f talk] of an invasion by Mexico, & the signs of the times seem str [ ongly] to indicate it, but there is noth- ing certainly known-rumors [are] strong, & reports come in from the west almost every day, all tencli [ ng] that way, but it may all blow over as such things have done heretofore-At present the war is stronger in Congre~s than els[e]where, but it is there a war of words, and does not seem likely to turn out much-The retrencliment bill has passed both houses-by it, the Navy & War Departments have beeu amalgamated & Col. Cooke of course goes out-The Qr. :Mr. Genis. Comr. Genls., Surgeon Genls., Adjutant and Inspector Genis., Ordnance,
'"A. L. S.
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