WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1834
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Globe, or Intelligencer. It confirms the hanging of those rascals, and says, the prospects of "Texas are truly cheering at this time." You may rest assured, that I will give all attention to your interest, and that of your Brother as individuals,-As money is scarce, and I have some small demands, that I should like to meet, I have concluded for you to make any arrangement, not under $2,000 dollars p<wt down, and the balance to be paid in twelve months, with such other provisions, contingent, in lands as you may think best. Write to me directly: as I may stay some 8 or 10 days, here, and if you make any arrangement, I wish you to authorize me to use part of it, by Draft for the present. I pray you, the moment that you get this note, to call upon Willard at the City Hotel, and ask him for a Map which I gave him to lay up in the Bar- I came off, and forgot it- Fold it up handsomely,- enclose 'it in a letter to me;, and enclose the letter to Mr. Felix Grundy 2 of the Senate.- It was one that was presented to me by your Brothers friend- I can't do without it. You may rest satisfied that I will correspond with you when I reach Texas, constantly. Do the best you can, and I will be satisfied, only let me know the result directly. May God Bless you. Sam Houston. Mr. James Prentiss P. S. Colonel Austin 3 arrived safe at home before the 9th of Feby, but no special news from him, at Nacogdoches. I have con- fidence in all that my correspondent states. Yours Houston. [Addressed]: To Mr. James Prentiss Wall Street New York Mail. [Endorsed]: Saml Houston 11 april 1834 answered 15 ApL 1 Felix Grundy (September 11, 1777-December 19, 1840), lawyer, jurist politician. See sketches by J. C. Guild, Old Times in Tennessee, 293-299. J. W. Caldwell, Bench and Bar of Tenn6ssee, 53-60. Dictionary of American Biography, VIII, 32-32. 2 Stephen F. Austin. See E. C. Barker, Life of Stephen F. A11stin (1925). Dictionary of American Biog1·aphy, I, 437-440. Houston was misinformed. Austin had been arrested in January, on his way home from Mexico, and was detained in Mexico until July, 1835.
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