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PAPERS OF l\IIRABEAU BU(!KAPARTE LAMAR
have all the bad luck that a man can have the worms they took my crop of cotton i did not make but 3 bales of cotton and had to hire the picking of it that cost me -:1:0 dollars i sold it for $120 dollars i was not able to help myself my liver was afected and stomach i spit blood and vomited up for along time i had doctor young and doctor Wilder and doctor george in Shrieveport they could relieve me for a short time but could not afect a cure but i doe hope that i will get better know as the spring has broke i hav hired too negroe [illegiblel from parson doty for 70 doll another from mister gill for 90 dollars and know my land has to bee sold on the first Saterclay in aprial to Saclisfy umfrey dauss he closed the morgage on me the first day of January and ordered it to bee Sold as soon as possible and that comes on next Saterclay week and i have know chance to help my self i hav tried to sell it for what i gave for it and canot sell it at any price you have rote to me some 3 times since you left and i have not been able to right and did not know whore to right i received a letter from you last week that was dated december the 27 184G that gave me great pleasure to here you was doing well also received a letter last week from mr Scott he rote to me that he had a letter for me and some things for his sisters and to call and see him i went up in texes shortly after you left to see how you left your business i went to mr coopers and he told me that mr crage had all of your papers to colect and to youse the money if he had any youse for it and of any body Called for the papers not to let them goe and said if you never come back he wanted your friends to have the money and i could not find your trunk nor any of your books in desemb i went up to see captain wilder as i herd he had got home but when i got there he was from home and i could not see him i saw his wife She told me that you had let mr wilder have your papers but i could not here anything of your trunk til mistress wilder in quired of her daughter She said that your trunk was left at mister gills and your books i returned back home and was taken sick and doe not know where it is you never rote to me any thing about your business i bought the horse from pinckney for sixty dollars and had to sell my horse to pay for him i want you to right to me whether you rote me a letter and ·never sealed it for i doe not believe you rote it and whether you left a letter any where for me or not i do not want you to think hard of me for righting the way i doe please right as ·sooi1 as this comes to hand Please right to me what you done with my sides 1 ?] as i doe not know where they are i shall try to goc up to see mister Scott in a short time or as soon as i can gett done planting my corn as i did for get. to tell you that my Sones mane his name is henry tailor Nothing more at present but remainds your friend untill death ELIAS 1\IITCHAEL l\IARY l\fITCHAEL [Addressed:] San Antonio to the Care·of Capt M B Lamar :Mr Po, Please forward to Jfr A Shane
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