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No. 2407 {184-f, MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR, RICHMOND? TEXAS] Notes, historical and biographical; San Jacinto, p. 1-2; Teran, Brad- burn, Henry Austin, 2- 0 1.; Henry Austin's introduction of steamboats into Texas, 4; Texas Revolution, 517; Austin, 7, 9-13, 20-21; Houston, 7; Santa Anna, 8; Amnesty law of 1835, 8; Anthony Butler, 10, 27-8; Moses Austin, 10, 16-18; Austin family relics, 19, 23; Archer, 21; Wharton, 21; Archer's bank project, 22-3; Anahuac, 24; Governor Smith, 25; the expulsion of the Mexicans, 1832, 28; Xavier Mina, 26-7, 29; battle of Medina, 29; the mysterious prisoner at Bexar, 30. A. Df. 30 p. See nos. 30, 36. No. 2408 {184-f, MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR, RICHMOND? TEXAS] Notes: Beginnings of Austin's c.olony. A. Df. 3 p.
No. 2409 [184-f ANONYMOUS
Notes upon the Mexican War of Independence and the Texas Revo- lution, especially Zavala's connection with the Revolution; written by an ex-member of the Spanish Cortes and the Mexican Congress. A? Df. 5p. Spanish. No. 2410 {184-f], C. J. BERGER TO [M. B. LAMAR, RICHMOND? TEXAS]2~ P. S. As illustrative of McLeods generous character it will not be out of place to relate an occurrence which took place under ,my own ob- servation the day we arrived at Galveston from our long imprisonment Our finances were very low & the question [ aro l fle on landing as to -who had an amount of funds, sufficient to regale the party - the 'General was possessed of a doubloon he said and we accordingly en- tered a bar room - A to11i:;t was proposed and the wine drank We now observed the General institutin/? a rapid and nervous search 'Of his various pocketi:; - change color. and exclaim, what have I done with it? - with the doubloon ! - it was gone - we looked at one another rather i:;eriouslv. when the C11nti1in of the Yes,;el in which W(• arrivd happened in. a~d relieved all rloubt from McLods r sic 1 mind by reminding him th11t he hlld giren it Cooke (who preceded him to Tex11s) before he left Vera Cruz. Amid much merriment thf' mllttn was explained and the Barkeeper ~enerously claimed the 'treat' as his own - and relieved us from our
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