WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1824-1857
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you a note, and have written you a long letter-too long. Write often. 1Tennessee Historical Magazine, III, 155-156. The original letter is in the Andrew J. Donelson Papers, Library of Congress. Justin Smith, The Annexation of Texas, p. 332, is an easily accessible source for a complete statement of the resolutions of Milton Brown, of Tennessee, as a basis for the annexation of Texas. In this letter Donelson is addressed at Washing- ton, Texas. See Houston to Donelson, April 3, 1845, note 1.
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To A. J. DoNELSON 1 Galveston, Texas, December 4, 1845.
You will please to excuse me for addressing you on the present occasion. It is presumed that so soon as annexation is completed, the U.S. Government will erect some Military establishment at this place, and some corps will remain there. In the event that such should be the case it is the intention of our friend Doctor Robert H. Wynne to apply for a medical situation and it is his desire that his name should be laid before the proper Department and when the time may arrive, he will be further represented so that the Head of the War Dep[artment] may be well advised, and the President enabled to decide upon the merits of the applicant. I need not speak to you of Doctor Wynne, or his qualifications, as you have so long, as well as so recently known him, not only as a man, but a professional Gentleman. If my knowledge can command any consideration for the claims of Doctor Wynne, I can with pleasure state that I have known him for more than twenty-five years, when he was a student of medicine, and since that time, I have known him as a professional man. If he could obtain a situation which would render him permanent here, he would with the aid of his private practice procure for his family, which is large, and peculiarly interesting, a handsome living. Believing that you feel a proper interest in the welfare of the Doctor, and feeling a most ardent desire for his prosperity, I have thought it proper that the intimations should be made through you to the Head of the proper Department, as I have not the pleasure to claim his personal acquaintance. 1Tennessee Historical Magazine, III, 159-160. See Houston to Donelson, April 3, 1845. Donelson is here addressed at Nashville, Tennessee·.
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