WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1843
232
To MESSRS. TORREY. AND BROTHERS 1 Executive Office; Washington, December 30th, 1843.
To Messrs. Torrey & Brothers: Gentlemen,- His Excellency, the President, requests me to acknowledge for him, the receipt of your last letter, in 1·elation to goods for the Indian trade. He regrets that you were not prepared to take such goods as you had on hand immediately to the Falls and supply the wants of the Indians. He conceives that it would have introduced you at once into a lucrative trade; and would have enabled you hereafter to prosecute your designs to better advantage. From information received here, it ap- pears the Indians have now large amounts of peltry on hand, well preserved and conveniently packed for market. His Excellency earnestly wishes, therefore, that you should make every possible exertion to have goods at the point of trade in as short a period as you suggest-that is, within farty days. If this should not be the case, His Excellency believes you will not only lose much, but what is of more consequence, that the disappointment of the Indians in this respect will prejudice the efforts of the Government in confirming the peace already estab- lished. By all means use all expedition. It is highly important. W. D. Miller [Rubric] Private Secretary "'Houston's Private Executive Record Book," p. 449, courtesy of Mr. Franklin Williams. For some information concerning the Torrey Brothers see Brown, History of Texas, II, 278, also Volume III, 268.
JANUARY, 1844
TO CAPTAIN WILLIAM ROLLINS 1 [No date given-January 1, 1844, supplied.]
Captain Wm. Rollins will please allow Dr. Anson Jones to take passage to New Orleans, and charge the same to the Government of Texas. Passage Thirty Dollars ($30) Sam Houston [Rubric] [Endorsed]: Gail Borden, Jr. Filed July 31, 1850-Sundry advances and extra services while he was collector at Galveston. James B. Shaw, Comptroller. 1 Pnblfo Debt Papers, Texas State Library. Although this document is filed with the 1850 papers, it was evidently issued in 1844. Tlte date January 1, 1844 is arbitrarily adopted.
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