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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1849
To MRS. HOUSTON 1
Washington, 9th July, 1849 My Dear, I am in the Senate and will not write a letter only a note. On yesterday I wrote to you, and to day, I could only tell you that I had passed another lonesome night, and that my hopes soon to be with you brighten as the sands of time run. You will laugh at the enclosed note, I am sure, though you may pity the poor fellows misfortunes. You will wish to know how the poor fellow is to live. He will get a pension, and perhaps marry a pretty young lady. A namesake of yours, and I doubt but what he has· used that fact to advance his suit! You know him. I will say no more on the subject. She is rich & charm [ing] as I learn. My Dearest it is 30 days since a word has reached me from our dear "Woodland Home." You are free, My Love, to select a better, and any which you may choose, shall be preferred. On this subject, if we shall live to meet, I can amuse you, I hope! Give my love to Mother & Sam, and kisses to all the girls. Howda to all. Salute our friends! Thy devoted husband Sam Houston Mrs. - Houston 1 From the original in the collection of Mrs. Madge W. Hearne's Houston materials. .
To JAMES GADSDEN 1
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Bermuda Springs, 20th Sept. 1849 To Gen James Gadsden, Member of Executive Committee of S. Carolina. Sir-Your official communication enclosing the S. C. Resolu- tions, bearing date the 21st of July last, reached me a day or two since. Perhaps I owe you an apology for not answering the questions which you were pleased to propound to me on a former occasion, and to which that communication alludes. Received, as they were, during the session of Congress, I bestowed upon them only a cursory notice. Substantive and important duties and obligations then absorbed my attention; and in view of the relations which we occupied towards each other, I was at that
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