WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1853 ·
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the truth of history; and while I am living, my respect for history will induce me as far as I am concerned, to vindicate it-and not to leave the task to posterity. If you will give me the charges, and the names of their authors, you can do, what, in my opinion, is proper; and rumors ,vill cease to form matters of history. If you do not think proper to do so, this must, in a friendly spirit, close our correspondence. Yours very truly, Sam Houston. Guy M. Bryan, Brazoria, T'exas 1 Guy 111. B1-yan Pave,·s, The University of Texas Library.
To MR. SARLA 1
Independence, 28th Nov. 1853. My Dear Sir, I have received a small cooking stove without any pipe, one large Bed-stead without Tiester, (as it was too large to send,) one of the bed-posts split, at the top, and roughly filled with wax or putty,-no side rails, and further, I have not looked at the thing. It is of no use as it is, to any one! The Bureau came also, and the locks all off it. The "scatchings" of the key holes, are handsomely fixed with wax or putty, and the joints wonderful; and taking it all in all it surpasses anything, that I have ever seen, except, the side-board-that is infamous beyond all things else. The vaniering, is broken and split. Wher- ever it needed it, and I would say at least twenty places, it has been puttied, (for wax was not strong enough or hard enough) and varnished. The looking Glass was broken before it left Houston, and hardly a splinter reached here. One end of the sideboard was split, for near a foot, and filled with wax. I have not told you all, nor is it worth the trouble. I called on a cabinet maker, and asked him in [if] I gave it storage what the lot, excepting the stove was worth, and he said that the whole was not worth more than seventy dollars. He said that twelve dollars was the full worth of the side-board. I passed by the Table,- it came the naked stand without leaves. And here they all are, and the freight was upwards of $22.00. I am willing.to loose that, and let the furniture be sold for what it will bring, and if it is good it ought to be sold for at least 25 per cent high~r here than at Galveston. Now, my Dear Sir, we account for it in this way. You selected handsome, and good furniture, and ordered it, to be boxed, and sent. The seller, or sellers, selected the refuse, on
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