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of the loan which is the crowning work to the fabrick of National respectability and importance which has been built up out of the chaotic mass of national elements thrown into the hands of the Executive at the Commencement of Yr Presdential term, and with the sincerest wishes for your continued health & prosperity I have the honour to remam. Yr Excellencys Most Obet Svt- W m H en1·y Daingerfield P. S Any communications intended for me sent to the care of the Consul here will be duly forwarded [ Addressed] [Endorsed] To Free His. Excellency. M B Lamar President of the Republic of Texas Austin Wm. H. Dangerfield New Orleans subject of the French Missions ]fay 17th 1841 No. 2024 1841 May 18, J[OSE] A[NTONIO] NAVARRO, BEXAR, [TEXAS] 71 President :Mirabeau B. Lamar Bexar May 18, 1841 Respected Sir : As your Excellency did me the honor to visit me, and a~ it was also my honor to converse with him through an interpreter and in my very poor English, I have, as a consequence of those conversations, the pleasure of enclosing with this a collection of autograph letters which, as interesting documents, I still preserve from the large epistolary cor- respon'dence which I had with my good friend, Stephen F. Austin, dur- ing his inestimable life. These letters contain little relative to the history which your Excellency proposes to write; but because it seems to me (as to many who knew him both intimately and slightly, and perceived the generous soul and noble and profound sentiments of that Texan Patriarch) that every word or every scratch of that comely and truthful pen was an emanation of pure and righteous intentions and never-extinguishable and personified desire for peace, liberty and pro,;- perity for all men, especially for his beloved Texas, his adopted country, I have thought that you Excellency would vouchsafe and desire to read and examine the collection referred to, and I do not doubt that your perspicacity will discover some of the author's characteristic words which can serve as aids to the remainder of the historical documents. But most of all, I wish to confirm your opinion, that Stephen F. Austin was and will be, the most illustrious Anglo-American who will fructify our native soil with his remains, and (finally,) I wish to increase the merited praises of that eminent man. And after you have read said letters, please do me the favor to return them, for they are, as I have said, documents of great interest to me 11 A. L. S.
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