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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1839
To ANNA RAGUET 1
City of Houston, 8th Feb'y, 1839 My Excellent Friend: More than a month since I wrote you an answer to your valued epistle, but had not an opportunity to forward it, and it remained on hand. Colonel Forbes'.! went off, and Major Kaufman,3 without my knowledge, and I did not write. Another reason was that I learned from general report (only to be sure) that you were to be Mrs. D.--. Today I learn it was not so, and I feel more at liberty to write. Recently I called twice to see your friend Mrs. Riely, but she was out to pass the day, so I have not seen her ladyship, and "Donny." I like her much, and not the less because you admire her so much. There has been but little sociability latterly, for the reason that our streets are wretchedly muddy, and matters are changing some now. Do you take? Congress has adjourned, and a new chief, "Who is to give Texas character !" I have found much perplexity in arranging business for my trip to the U. States (if I take it), which has been delayed owing to business, and, among other things town or city making. Bye the bye, I will select a handsome lot, Miss Anna! I still regard Nacogdoches as my home, and have paid up Major Roberts~ for my house and lot which is to be ready for me by mid-summer. Were it not that I am anxious to see my sisters as well as Eliza's 5 little ones, I wou'd pass the Spring and Summer at home with my Texas friends. My health does not require a trip to the "White Sulphur," as I find a total change of habits causes a change of health. Nothing could render me more happy than to see my friends in Eastern T'exas and be tranquil at home! Ambition has no claims upon the affections of my heart. Others may pursue the phantom. My affectionate regards to your parents, sisters and brothers. Doct. Irion sends all love. - Sam Houston I Miss Anna Raguet. [P. S.] Please write to me at New Orleans. !The Dallas Mo,.,iino News, March 28, 1915. ~John Forbes (February 26, 1797-June 22, 1880) was born in Cork, Ire-- land, of Scotch parents. He came to the United States in 1817 and settled at Cincinnati, Ohio. There, in 1818, he married Emily Sisson. In 1834 he decided to go to Texas; he went by steamer to Nachitoches, thence on horseback to Nacogdoches, where he decided to settle. He v:sited San
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