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WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1842
To MATTHEW P. WoonHousE 1
City of Houston, 23rd Sept. 1842.
My dear Sir, I wish you, if you please, to see Major Cooke/ and as he has charge of my Girl Martha, that you would say that I wish her to be sent up with her effects, if it is possible to do so. Also, I wish you to have Mrs. Houston's Boy "Purlee" brought up on the boat, if you can do so without trouble, if you should return by day after tomorrow. I hope Mother will not prevent the Boy coming! It has cost us some trouble by his not coming on the last Boat. You will please present us affectionately to Mother & Vernal Lea. 3 Say how we are packing up for Washington. You will please to say to Judge Eve 4 how kindly I regard him, and will write to him, by the first chance. Your Friend, Sam Houston [ Rubric] Capt. Woodhouse.
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1 Compt1·oller's Letters, Texas State Library. zsee Houston to William G. Cooke, January 17, 1836.
3 Vernal Lea was Mrs. Houston's brother. 4 See Houston to Joseph Eve, July 30, 1842.
To COLONEL L. B. FRANKs 1 Executive Department, City of Houston, September 26, 1842 To Colonel L. B. Franks, Indian Agent &c. Sir,-You will proceed to where you will find the Tonkeway and Lipan Indians, and repair thence with two chiefs, or head men, of each tribe, if it would not be improper in your estimation to bring them, to the Waco Village upon the upper Brazos, where you will meet in council the chiefs and head men of various other tribes, who will assemble there on the 24th October next. Before proceeding to the Waco Village, however, you will report yourself in person, with the Indians who are to accompany you, to me at Washington. You are authorized to supply in a judicious manner the neces- sities of the two tribes, above named, during the absence of their warriors with the Texans in the field. Sam Houston. iExecutive Recorc[ Book, No. 40, pp. 14&-149, Texas State Library. See Houston to Colonel L. B. Franks, January 6, 1842.
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