WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1846
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If you can afford me any information upon this subject at Palmer's Post Office, Montgomery County, you will very much oblige me. Aware that the duties of your station are not only arduous, but troublesome, I have felt reluctant to call your at- tention to matters of my individual concernment. Your attention to this subject will very much oblige Sam Houston [Rubric] To the Acting Commissioner, General Land Office, Austin, Texas P. S. I have not the pleasure to know who is acting in the absence of Col. Ward. Houston [Endorsed] : Neither of these claims are in the office.
'Miscellaneous Files, General Land Office of Texas.
1846
HOUSTON'S LINES TO A YOUNG COUSJNt
Remember thee?
Yes, lovely girl, 'While faithful memory holds its seat, Till this warm heart in dust is laid, And this wild pulse shall cease to beat, No matter where this bark be tost On life's tumultuous stormy sea- My anchor gone, my rudder lost- Still Cousin, I will think of thee!
1 John M. Oskison, A Texas Titan, 291. 'The date of this poem is doubtful. Oskison says it was written when Houston was fifty-three years old. That would make the date 1846.
To W. V. Coaas 1
Washington City, April 8, 1846. My Dear Cobbs/ I have only time to thank you for your kind letter and express my great happiness to hear that you are educating your young Cobbs. God bless you and all that are yours. I did not bring Madam and Sam with me. I left them well, and am crazy to get home.
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