WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 184-9
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Be pleased to present my salutations to the officers and mem- bers of the Division. Truly your friend, Sam Houston. To H. Yoakum,2 William Lehr, G. W. Rogers, Esqrs., Committee. 'The Texas Banner (Huntsville), May 19, 1849. For Yoakum see Houston to Yoakum, January 31, 1849, this volume. William Lehr and G. W. Rogers were both merchants of Houston.
To AsHBEL SMITH 1
Huntsville, 31st May, 1849 My Dear Smith. I did not answer your last letter, because it was detained, and I did not know your whereabouts. Since then, I have to some extent learned, that you will go North ere long. If you can, my Dear Friend, be here, and spend what time you can with me from the 1st to the 18th. of July. I want to see you, if possible as much, or more than I ever did. I have three days talk for you, and four for listening. This will be worth a trip in the hot sun. Say from Galveston to this place. I will have to be absent, at times, on business, until the time proposed for your visit to us. I thank you for the items in your letter. I have pondered them over. If anything should cause you to leave without a visit to us, I want you, if you cannot leave my likeness with some one, (more than safe) do take it to Memphis. I think more of it than all my likenesses. Write to me if you please, at this place, and tell me all the news. Commend me to our friends, and particularly to that Stuart. 2 He is like Burns's choice, "a [illegible] man." He has more talent and capacity, than any five Editors [th] at I know in the world to my notion. · And his integrity will always respond to his friends confidence. I promise you no great fuss, but a hearty welcome. On the 4th of July, we are to have a Temperance blowout Sam Houston. Doct. A. Smith, Galveston, Texas 'Ashbel Smith Papers, University of Texas Library. For biographical data on Smith, see Volume II, 116. 'Evidently Hamilton Stuart. See Houston to Hamilton Stuart, December 21, 1845, this volume.
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