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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LA11IAR
things as they exist to study them & thereby properly inform his govt so that they may protect their interests for the future General allow me as a private individual to extend to you my most sincere thanks & to assure you that I breathe more freely to day than I have for the last 3 years & that henceforward I shall feel secure & be able to thank God that my mother bro't me forth under the canopy of the American flag. General I've suffered much, but I now hope that my past sufferings will appear slight, in comparison to the security for the future My dear General you must be wearied by so long a struggle; dont you think it would be well to relay somewhat? Could .you not make it convenient to spend some little time with me in Cartago. I think the bracing north breese would revive you, & as I know you are fond of nature (as all poets are), you would, be pleased with the scenery around about here, where nature has done so much, & man so little, do come, you can bring your writing & your Secretary,- Hoping you will excuse the liberty of addressing you, & expecting to see you here in Cartago in a few days I am your ardent admirer GEORGE GwrnR [Addressed:] Honble M. B. Lamar- Minister Resid de los E. U. San Jose C. R in hotel de San Jose
No. 2688. JOSE DEBRIN TO LAMAR
Leon. Octbr. 27th 1858
Confidential.
lVIY VERY DEAR GENERAL, AND Godfather: The letter you had the kindness to forward to me, through :Mr. Claudio Curbelo, has reached me at Leon on the 25th instant. It was from Mrs. Cazneau, and contained within it, the enclosed note for you. Mrs. Cazneau writes to me very kindly whishing [sic] me to remain at your side; and she seems desirous to have me appointed by the Gov- ernment Secretary of Legation. She adds that "at your request the appointment will be eas~ly ob- tained." Now, General, I do not know whether you would prefer to have me appointed for your Secretary, rather than to have any other. If really you think that I ~ay be useful as Secretary of Legation, as a matter of course no situation in the world would fit better my desires than your Secretar[y]ship. I request you, therefore, in case you do not dislike my services, to write in the way that you consider most effi- cacious to the State Department, in order to favor my appointment. I have tried here, at Leon, the professorship 0£ mother and foreign languages; but the Country is so extremely poor, that I am now fully convinced that I will never be able to get in Leon, out of my lessons, even the half of my necessary expenses: although we are not, either I, or my wife, for the least extravagant. Could you believe it? I have been for seven weeks teaching every day six ho1trs at the University and in private houses and I have not yet been able to collect a single dime from my lessons l
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