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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1843
Colonel Daingerfield was presented to the King of the French, the King graciously received him, and took occasion to express his pleasure at the present attitude of Texian affairs, and at the same time rendered his congratulations. I sincerely hope the health of your amiable family, ere this, is fully restored. Be pleased to express my respects to yqur lady, and be so kind as to salute Mr. Kennedy for me. Say to him, if you please, that I owe him a very long letter. In: the meantime, I will be gratified if he will increase the obligation. Truly your friend, Sam Houston [Rubric] "'Houston's Private Executive Record Book," pp. 409-410, courtesy of Mr. Franklin Williams. ::iAccording to a letter from Charles B. Snow to Houston, April 2, 1858, Downing H. Crisp died of yellow fever at Galveston in the early summer of 1844. The letter from Snow to Houston is in Mrs. Margaret John's Collection of Houston Materials.
To VISCOUNT DE CRAMA YEL 1
Private
Washington, October 5th, 1843.
My dear Count, Since my return from the Trinity, after a very unpleasant trip, I have not been so well. An old wound and the state of the atmosphere have been such as to cause me a good deal of suffering and some confinement. Since I started to the Indian Council I have suffered more from my wound than I have done for the previous twenty years. Hence you will excuse me for employing an amanuensis. At the very moment of my departure from Washington for Crockett, I had the pleasure to receive your interesting letter, but not in time to obtain its translation_. Since my return and at the first leisure, I take pleasure in replying to you on the subject of the French wines. 2 My dear Count, the course pursued by my predecessor was contrary to law, and so soon as it was called to my notice, I felt it my duty to issue the proclamation, requiring the duty to be paid according to law. That it was considered as malapropos at the time it was published, I assure you, I regret extremely. Mons. de Saligny having been absent for some time, owing to ill-health, it had been announced unofficially that the Count de Cramayel would shortly arrive, he having been appointed to
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