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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoN.APARTE LAM.AR
P. S. Whiting is not in Town- so soon as I see him, I will enquire about the newspapers- f Addressed] Free James Webb M. C. Ocnl :Mirabeau B. Lamar Care of A. A. M. Jackson Esq. Galveston No. 2130 1842 Apr. 12, S. WHITING AUSTIN, [TEXAS] TO M. B. LAMAR, GALVESTON, [TEXAS] 68 Austin 12. Apr 1842 Dear General By Col Mayfield, I address you a few lines. I have promised myself long since the pleasure of a letter from you, as in our last interview, previous to your leaving this place, you said to me that you would write me, when you had found a resting pince, Col M, will tell you of all our movements here, old Sam BurMt & David, G. Ho'USton have played the Very Devil here, I have been puz- zled to determine which of the two is the d ......st Rascal, It appears to me that poor Texas in the choice of the two worthies with Com crib Moore has closed her doomedest,, -We are holding on \;o the Archive [sic] like death to dead negro & are determined they shall not be taken from here 'till ordered by a higher power that Sam Houston. Judge Webb. Col. Jones & some 8 or 10 others have so- licited me to offer for next Congress from this County. I have con- sented to run & if you can lend me a hand, by writing to your friends here, I will be thankful, Lewis P. Cook will offer [persuade] Ogden but my friends think my chance a good one. My friends are all act'g very quietly as yet, and I presume the fact is not known to Col May- field he being as it is believed a warm friend of Cooks I should be truly pleased to have a letter from you with sentiments of the
Most sincere friendship & esteem-
I Am-Truly Yrs S. Whiting [rubric]
[ Addressed] General M,. B., Lamar- favord. by ) ) Galveston. Col Mayfield )
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1842 Personal-
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