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to where I will be. Today I ·will remove Mr. Ross to Mr. Hirams : 3 ten miles distant from here, but not more distant from Houston than this. If you cannot come send Tucker,4 for I know Dr. Irion 6 cannot come. If you can come, I feel confident that you will at all hazards. You can, if you choose, bring Dr. Tucker with you. He wou'd be company as your return wou'd be lonesome. "Dr. Houston" feels satisfied that this case is over his hooks. I will hail your arrival. The distance is great to visit a Patient -but the Youth is far distant from the widowed Mother, and relict of a Gallant man. Mr. Johnson will bring me some of the Papers referd to in my memorandum: I have been unwell, but am now well. To-day, I will see the Indians! I may bleed Mr. Ross today if he has much fever, and the pain in his stomach not abate. I pray you to salute my friends Irion, Hockley, 0 Hoyle,1 and others; T'ell Hoyle to take care of my Tobacco, or Irion to take charge of the Keg or Box. I place Mr. Johnson on Sam Patch 8 for the sake of dispatch. I pray you commend me to all worthy friends, and to God I pray for health, and a fair wind for the journey. Let Thruston send on the Documents as desired, and Mr. Hoyle will find some 50 copies of the Communication relative to the Indians on my Desk-Please bring my miniature, and ,_my hartshorn Phial. If the Harts-horn is out I wish it replenished. Bring some Tea from my house with you, or if you are sick, and can't come send· these things. I must have an able Physician. Sam Houston Doct. A. Smith, Surgeon General [Addressed] : EXPRESS! !! Sam Houston To Doct. Ashbel Smith, Surgeon General City of Houston Texas Mr. Jno. R. Johnson° 1 Ashbel Smith Papers, The Texas University Library. 2 John Ross. See Houston to John Ross, June 13, 1838; also page 280. 8 Samuel C. Hirams lived near San Felipe. He was a member of the San Felipe Ayuntamiento in 1829. 4 Dr. Edmund Tucker was appointed surgeon in the Texas army, April 6, 1839; the Senate confirmed the nomination on January 10, 1840 (see E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Journals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1896-1S45, 136, 170). 5 Dr. Robert A. Irion, Secretary of State, could not leave his office, especially since Houston, the President, was away from the capital.
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