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ticket. For a good brief biography see Dictionary of American Bioymphy, XIV, 576-580. To Hrs DAUGHTER NANNIE 1 Washington, 2nd Feby, 1853. My Dear Daughter, I send you a comic Newspaper. I intend to send you some pretty ones soon, & to my Dear Mag, also. I have sent them to my son up to this time, but I do not intend to send him any more until he writes to me, and asks for them. He has made my heart sad; I am fearful that he is too selfi.c:;h, either to be happy himself, or to try to make others happy. I delight, my Daughter, that you try to make others happy, and thereby make yourself happy. Kiss your Grandma, your Ma, & little Sisters for me. If Sam is penitent, you rnciy kiss him for me! I have a pretty locket for you, my Dear, that has two likenesses of me in it. Thy Devoted Father Sam Houston [Rubric] To Nancy Lea Houston P. S. I send to your Dear Ma, and you, some evergtreens from the Tomb of Washington. · Houston. Nannie [Addressed]: Miss Nannie Lea Houston, care of her Dear Mother. 1 From the original in Mrs. Margaret John's Houston Collection. RESOLUTION ON THE MARINE CORPS, FEBRUARY 4, 1853 1 Resolved, That the Committee on Naval Affairs be instructed to inquire into the mode in which the Marine Corps, attached to the Navy, is supplied with clothing, arms, subsistence, &c., and whether or not the same is done by public notice and contract, or by private agreement, and how much, if at all, the same exceeds the cost of similar articles furnished for the Army and Navy respectively, of a like description; and that for this purpose the said committee have power to send for persons and papers, and report thereupon to the Senate. Resolved, That the said committee also be instructed to inquire into the expediency of a thorough reorganization of the Marine Corps, so as to dispense with a large number of officers who t
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