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arrival at Buenos Ayres which I believe is your .ultimate place of des- tination - My own condition is at present painfully embarrassing - I have not the means of making a decent living for my family - I am looking anxiously for information from my agent as to the pos- sibility of selling my head right and getting means to purchase a negro man and enable me to cultivate my little farm - But the Severe drouths of the last two or three years have rendered it al- most impossible to sell western lands for cash at any price - Mine lay in Medina County, far west - Well we shall live any how all the appointed days of our lives - and after that, it will be of little consequence whether we passed our brief pilgrimage amid the luxuries of wealth or the trials and privations of poverty - Still I hold it a Sacred duty to provide as far as may be honestly done for the comfort of ones family and Self, in the evil world - I did not mean in this hasty scrawl, to say so much of myself - I hope and do not doubt you will find your new position an easy and pleasant one - the duties cannot be very arduous and may, in many respects be agreeable - The diplomatic relations be- tween the two governments are not likely to become very complicated - Your course will be a plain, straight forward, candid one as will be- come the representative of a great Republic that seeks only its just rights and is willing to mete the same to others - I suppose you will visit Georgia en route - I beg you will not forget to send out our ill-fated MS - Some portions of it may probably be published here in connection of the manifold errors to be found in Yoakum's most disingenuous and Sycophanted history - Send them to our friend Sherman -- And now, my dear Sir, may the Lord who rules in heaven and hol.ds the seas in the palm of his hand bless you and yours in all your journy - Mrs B - unites with me in kindest regards to yourself and family - in haste
Yours as of old David G Burnet [Endorsed]
D G Burnet. Genl Lamar Sept 26/57
No. 2534
1857 Sept. 29, R. DOLBEAR, NEW ORLEANS, [LOUISIANA] TO M. B. LAMAR, [NEW ORLEANS? LOUISIANA ?]2 6
N. 0. Sept. 29/57 -
Gen. M. Lamar Present
Dr. Sr.
If you find a moment of time to refer
merely to the necessity of the South -
in a few lines I should be
glad -
"A. L. S.
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