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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1844
To THE TORREY BROTHERS 1
Washington, January 8th, 1844.
To Messrs Torrey & Brothers: Gentlemen,
Your last note came duly to hand; and I gave immediate attention to your requests. By the first opportunity, I will forward you license to trade ; and a form of the bond required to be executed and filed in this Ex. Dept. Please execute it and forward at the earliest practicable period. Enclosed you have the measure you were so good as to authorize me to send. The quality and fashion of the articles will be left to your own taste & judgment. If the measure should prove too small for me-no matter. It will serve some one of my particular friends-& meet your approbation. I am very anxious to see you established in your Indian trade, because I believe it important both to the Republic and yourself. Thy friend Sam Houston 1 .Miller Pape1·s, Texas State Library. For Torrey Brothers, see Houston to Stephen Z. Hoyle, April 1, 1843. To THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 Executive Department, Washington, January 8th, 1844. To the Honorable, the House of Representatives : I herewith transmit, in addition to the information heretofore laid before Congress, on the same subject, the accompanying note from the Secretary of War and Marines, 2 enclosing an extract from a recent letter of the commander of the Naval Station at Galveston. The facts need no comment-the navy is abandoned! Sam Houston. 1Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 298; also, "Messages of the Presidents," Congressional Papers, Eighth Congress, Texas State Library. Journals of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas, 8th Cong., 1st Sess., p. 172. 2 See G. W. Hill, Secretary of War and Marine, to Sam Houston, January 1, 1844, E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Joiwnals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1886-1845, pp. 285-287. .
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