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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 2137 18~ May S, A. S. LIPSCOMB GALVESTON, [TEXAS] TO M. B. LAMAR, [GALVESTON, TEXAS] 79 _ Galvest.on City 3rd. May 1842 Sir agreeably to your request mape t.o me this morning. I will state that I recollect, that a note was handed to you by Col McLeod from General Hunt. and that it was read, in the presence of the Secretarys of War and Navy, myself, and I believe some others. I cannot pre- tend to remember, the })articulars of the note, I can only say that it left an impression on my mind, that General Hunt was under the in- fluence of passion. when he wrote. . it, as it was oouched, in rather angry terms. Its objeet was mainly to withdraw. an application made to you for an appointment, by the General. you seemed, t.o be much displeased at the note & some one present I do not recollect now who it was advised. you. to remove General Hunt. from the office of Comm.iE- sion for using the boundary line. You objected to it, and I sustained you in your decission, that a mere personal difference on a subject not connected with the boundary line, was not a sufficient reason for his removal
I am Sir
with Great Respect Your Obdt Servt
Abner S Lipscomb
Gen. M B Lamar
No. 2138 184,S Mmy 4, [MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR,] GALVES- TON, [TEXAS] TO [MEMUCAN] HUNT, [GALVESTON, TEXAS] 80
Galvezton 4 May 1842.
Genl. Hunt
Sir
Your long and elaborate letter 81 of the 3rd inst has been received. You have thought proper to introduce in the discussion of a very plain and simple point, a great deal of irrevalent matter & much personal abuse, which I shall suffer to pass unnoticed as the emina• tions of a viceated feeling and a weak & vulgar mind. Confident that your letter will receive but little or no credence from the public, I shall give no answer to any portion of it except such as relates directly to the question in dispute between us. In my last note I stated that you had applied to be appointed Consul Genl. to the exclusion of Mr. Bryan at New Orleans. This you denounee in the first page of your letter as "wilful misrepresentation;" and in the second page you acknowl- edge in the following language that you did make such application. '"A. N. S. '°A. Df. "No.. 2135.
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