WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1837-1841
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plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of this Government near that of the United States. The objects of the Mission of that functionary are generally to cultivate friendly relations with the United States, and there being others which do not admit of convenient specification in this letter, I have respectfully to refer you to such communica- tions as he will find it his duty to make under the instructions he has received, to the proper Department of your Government, on the special subjects with which he is charged - and I have also to request that full faith and credit may be given to all he shall say on the part of this Government. Given under my hand and the Seal of the Republic of Texas at Houston this 3d day of May 1837 and in the year of the Re- public the Second. [SEAL] Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas [Rubric] 'From the original owned by Mrs. Madge W. Hearne.
To JOHN McKEAN 1
May 7, 1838
General Sam Houston to John McKean Dr.
$35.00
For Oysters etc.
Please to lift this bill of $35.00
Sam Houston
8th May, 38 [Endorsement across face of the note]: PAID 13th June, 1838. Sam Houston [Rubric] [Endorsed on back] : McKean recd $35. All settled! 'The original document is· in the possession of Mrs. Madge W. Hearne, by whose courtesy this copy is made. The first two lines of the note are not in Houston's handwriting; all the rest is. To JAMES vV. PARKER 1 City of Houston, 10th June, 1837. Sir Your letter of the 6th Inst has this moment come to hand, and in reply I have to say that as war has now been de- clared by Congress against those Indians of the Prairies I will
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