WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1847
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Joe, & Uncle Ben." He has been really ill, poor fellow. I hope we will now meet with no further detention. I have not complied with my promise to Judge Worsham, as I have not seen Miss B ..... I will send down Joshua & a Buggy for Mother, and suggested for one of the Mr Ellis! or the judge to ride up in company with Mother, and take a look at the Ladies and land, about Huntsville. It is said to be healthy there since I came here. I have traded for another place within two or three miles of Huntsville. It is a bang up place! What you say to a look at it? Mrs. Houston, I think, is in better health than when we were at your house, and little Nannie is fatter than she has ever been. We unite in kind regards to you, your Brother, and the family of Capt-. Mrs. Moore has been quite ill, with an affliction in her side. Sam Houston [Rubric] P. S. Sam says he has a birthday present which his Pa gave him of a pretty Gold pencil, for his Uncle Joe, so soon as he can see him, if it is not too long! !! To Col. Jose Ellis Pleasant Lawn Texas [Addressed]: To Col. Joseph Ellis Grand Cain Texas Mail From Sam Houston Palmers Po Texas June 13th 1 From the collection of Mr. Thomas W. Streeter, Morristown, New Jersey. Mr. Streeter's document is the original letter. Joseph Ellis was agent to the Alabama and Coshatta Indians.
To F. L. HATCH 1
Huntsville, Texas, July 18,1847. My Dear Sir: Within a few days I have seen a letter in the "Weekly Union" of the 12th ult. over the signature of Ex-Pres- ident Tyler. If it were not for some facts stated in the letter, demanding, as I conceive, some notice from me, I would not bother you with this communication. Or, if the facts were not material to the truth of history, and character of those, who, at the time were the chief functionaries of the Texan Government, I should find it less incumbent on myself to solicit some explana- tion of the facts alleged. The statements emanating from so high and respectable a source are well calculated to enforce them upon the minds of readers as authentic, and not as matters aris- ing from the misappropriation of truth.
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