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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1810
but, my dear, I cannot say when that will be the case! Nothing would render me more happy, but to know that my efforts to situate you splendidly here were crowned with success. Today is drizling and damp, and I am depressed and melan- choly! I cannot be happy but where you are! The reiteration of my love will only annoy you, and I must learn to write some- thing else than love letters. While your indisposition continues you may endure them, but after that has ended (and I pray Heaven it is now the case) you will wish me to write more on business. This morning while the Chill was upon me. I felt as though I would yield everything and fly to you, but since the day has passed nearly by, I must again recur to the suits which are to be tried at court. I have been pressed to take fees in three or four of the most important cases in Eastern Texas. One is a capital case of homocide, and the others involving large amounts of property.-But, my dear, if they are not tried at the beginning of the court, I must either abandon them or have them laid over until the March term of court! My Love, I do sincerely hope that you will hear no more slanders of me. It is the malice of the world to abuse me, and really were it not that they reach my beloved Margaret, I would not care one picayune-but that you should be distressed is inexpressible wretchedness to me! My dear! do be satisfied, and now in your feeble health be cheerful for that is all important to you, and my dear, if you hear the truth you never shall hear of my being on a "spree." Give my love to our dear sister 3 and our friend Bledsoe. l\1y heart enbraces you my dear! Thine Ever Truly Houston. Mrs. Margaret Lea Houston. P. S. 'Tis late in the day and I will ride to pass the night with an old bachelor friend. He is very old and one of my first friends in Texas. He is the only Revolutionary soldier I know in the Republic. Thine, Houston • 1 Sam Houston State Teachers College; photostat, The University of Texas Library. ZMargaret (Wallace) Penland. 3 Emily Antoinette Lea, a younger sister of Mrs. Margaret Len Houston, married William Bledsoe.
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