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WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1863
We, the undersigned appraisers, do solemnly swear. that the foregoing is a fair and correct appraisement of the property belonging to the estate of Sam Houston, deceased, to the best of our knowledge and belief.
{ H. M. Watkins John McCreary
Appraisers Subscribed and sworn to before me, this the 2d day of December, A. D. 1863. M. S. Gibbs, Clk., C. C., W. C. We, the undersigned Executors of the Estate of Sam Houston, deceased, do solemnly swear that the foregoing is a full and correct Inventory of said Estate so far as has come to our knowledge; and that the appraisers could not be got together to appraise the property sooner than the present term.
{ Thomas Carothers J, Carroll Smith
Executors Subscribed and sworn to before me, this the 2d day of December, A. D. 1863. M. S. Gibbs, Clk., C. C., W. C.
T'o HIS DAUGHTER NANNIE 1
Huntsville, Texas, 14th April, 1863. My Dear Daughter, We were all quite gratified to receive your letter today, by the arrival of your long delayed message. Sam told me that you wrote to me while he was in Independ- ence. We are all now pretty well. This is the second day that I have risen from a spell of sickness that lasted me a week. I am quite lean, but hope soon to mend again. As to the matter of a correspondence with Pendleton, I say that I would make no fuss about it. I presume that you made no professions of Love, and I would not care to ask, the return of my letters nor return his. You have written nothing indiscreet, I presume, & therefore I would not make it a matter of so much importance as to give it the appearance of a "Love Scrape." I would give as reasons that it would cause me to withdraw a portion of my time from my studies. It is a rule of Mr. Clark's school that no scholar of his school shall correspond with any gentleman unless he is a rela- tive, & I do not wish to violate his rules. I admit that the cor- respondence of Gentlemen who are the friends of our family are
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