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were precipitated from a bridge near the arsenal at least 15 feet upon the dry hard bed of Waller's Creek ! The buggy was shi [v] ered but · nofie of their bones were damaged ! Bring Foote's Texas with you if you can procure it. I£ there is any thing you wish attended to in your absence write to Yr. frd. & obt. st. Ewd. Fontaine [rubric] [Addressed] [Endorsed] To His Excellency Genl M. B. Lamar Galveston Per Texas Col Wilson Rwd. Fontaine Austin July 23d 1841 No. 2072 1841 July 2Jf, SAl\IUEL ROBERTS, AUSTIN, [TEXAS] TO M:. B. LAMAR, [GALVESTON, TEXAS] 20 Confidential Dear Genl. Austin July 24th 1841 By the last mail, I made a formal complaint 21 against Mr Mor- ris stating that he had become so intemperate, as tc compel me, as an officer of the Government to notice it. and that unless there was a speedy & radical reform, it would be your bounden duty to remove him from the office he occupied- The extreme reluctance with which that repre- sentation was made, is sufficiently evincea in my letter just refered to- and it is therefore with unfeigned pleasure that I find myseli justified by his subsequent conduct [i]n requesting you to forget that such a letter ever [w]as written- }\fr l\f- has this morning joined [the] Temperance Society for life, and his friends tell me, there is not a doubt he will regruly adhere to his vow- Hoping & believing he will, I hasten to do him this act of justice; nothing doubting that this volun- tary effort at Re.If preservation, will raise Mr .l\f. as much in your esti- ruation as it has in mine, I am with high regard Genl Your friend & obt servt M. B. Lamar Saml. A. Roberts Candor and fair dealing required that as this matter is happily ended, }\fr Morris should know what I have done; I have according, just told him the substance of my letter of last week, and handed h_im this to read- He exhibited great emotion, but spoke as became a high minded and an honorable man- His greatest uneasiness seemed to be, lest you might think his sudden reform was attributable to his fear of being removed from office- To put an end to all doubt on this head, I have only to say, that he had not the remotest idea that I had even noticed his habits_until I placed this letter in his hands to read, not two min- utes ago.
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