WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1834
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JAMES PRENTISS TO HOUSTON 1
New York April 15, 1834
Genl.Saml.Houston My dear Sir Since your departure and previous to the recept of yours of the 11th Inst. the Galveston Bay & Texas Land Co. have given such instructions to Genl Mason on the subject of agents and others to be employed in their service as will prevent their doing any thing with you unless th.rough the instrumentality of Genl. M. hence you see that I can do no good and yet I thi!],k Mr. M. will employ you- I shall urge the expediency of your being employed by the Co.-and doubt not you will be thus, soon after you return to Texas- I send herewith the map refered to according to your directions. My correspondent writes from Mexico 13 Febery, that Col. Austin was in close prison in that City-hence your advice that he was in Texas on the 9 of Feb must have been errounous- you say nothing about any important movements interesting to Owner of Grants in Texas- and yet it is believed that some important political movement is contemplated to take place soon- I beg you will impart such information to me, on that subject as you may deem iJ?,teresting to me-as also of all other matters in Texas that you may think I am interested in knowing. P. Prentiss [ Endorsed] : Copy Sarni Houston April 15, 1834.
1 Ja-ines Prentiss Letters, The University of Texas Library.
To ANDREW JACKSON 1
·Washington City, 20th April 1834
To the President of the U. States Your memorialist represents that in the year 1832 he was in the City of Washington, where he saw published in the National Intelligencer a Speech which purported to be delivered by Wil- liam Stanbery, a Member of Congress from Ohio. The name of your memorialist was used in the speech in very offensive terms and fraud was imputed to him- Aware that the
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