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TEXAS STATE LIBRA.RY
you will Excuse my Short Note I am Scarcely able to Set up to wright a Line To ,. Genl M. B. Lamar
I have the Honor Sir with High Regard to be your Homble Servent Edwd. Burleson [rubric] [Endorsed]
[Addressed] To
Genl E. Burleson June 4th -1841-
Genl M. B. Lamar Austin
per Dr Cook
No. 2039
1841 Jurne 5, W[ILLIAJM H. SANDUSKY, GALVESTON, [TEX- AS] TO MIRABEAU B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR AUSTIN, [TEXAS] The journey; his health; the coast survey; Webb; Saligny; Houston's and Burnet's political prospects; Gail Borden; Lamar's popularity in the coast country. A. L. S. 1 p. No. 2040 ·1841 Jurne 5, R. M. POTTER, BEXAR, [TEXAS] TOM. B. LAM.AR AUSTIN, [TEXASJ 81 Bexar 5th. June 1841. Genl. M. B. Lamar Dr Sir, The sale of the property of which the lot you wish to buy is a part, has been stopped by an injunction from the Distct. Court. I will therefore be unable to purchase the piece of ground referred to, nor have I yet been able to find another for sale which would be likely to suit you. I will however be on the look out, and perhaps in the course of a few weeks may find something that will answer. I regret that I have not been able to visit you, especially as the form of a proclamation which I sent you may prove defective from my not having been minutely instructed respecting the matter, whence I may have omitted many points on which you wish to touch. As however Don Antonio Navarro has accepted the appointment of Commission~r you will be able to prepare your documents with his assistance better than with mine, for though he is unacquainted with English, the aid of an ordinary interpreter will enable him to render them into Spanish. Should there not be time for this between his arrival at Austin and the march of the' expedition, I presume he can make the translations in suitable style after its departure; provided there be a press at Santa Fe to print them.- If not, and one be needed there, I would suggest, as a cheap and portable substitute for such an establishment, to carry with the expedition a few lbs of type & one or two small forms with an ink ball, stick and a suitable quantity of printers ink, if they are to be had
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