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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 436. DANIEL R. HUTCHENS TO LAMAR
Mobile, August 19th. 1836
Mr LA.MAB DF..AB Srn not wishing to Rush in to Business without some. knowledge of. it Before hand-. l 1"as in formed that Country was A verry Desirable place for. A young man of my- ocipation my father Wus A farmer in Burke County. Georgia in whicth place_I resided untill the year 18.34 in Conciquence of being Subject to Asthma the Doctors advised me to Travel to the South I Came to mobile Alabama in this place I have Lived for Two years I now enjoy verry good health and feel a Desire to Settle my Self in the Suthern States or in Texas. I have Resolve the farming Business nnd am At this time A Clerk in A Large grocery Store I wish some information of. that. Country I wish you if you will [be] so good as to give me A description of that Country as Believe you to Bee A man of Truth. and one that. I. Can depend on if you will write me Direct your Letter mobile Alabama Daniel R. Hutchens please to give me general description of the Annee and how the State of Affairs is at this time if you will Answer this Letter it will oblige me very much. &c. you sincear friend DANIEL R HUTCHENS
[Addressed:] Mr M. B. Lamar Columbia Texas [Endorsed:] Daniel R Hutchens :Mobile 1836
No. 438. WILLIAM D. REDD TO WILLIAM: G. JETER
Velasco Texas August 19th 1836
DEAR Sm
The presumption is that you have come to the very flattering and lamentable conclusion that your immutable friend R. Brown is no more; fifteen minutes previous to this the Corior arrived bringing in- teligence contradictory of the death of Brown; he still lives and is quite sanguinly anticipatiJ1g the clay when he will again "smile in the festive hall," in consert with those whom he used to mingle. Thirty days will not crown our heads untill the City of 1\-litimoras shall mingle its ashes with vary dust from which it originated ("From dust to dust thou shalt return") That g[a]llant band the Georgia Battalion though dilapidated hns left behind a feanix ever ready to perpetuate them- namely they will continue ever to be revenged whilst there,. is one drop of blood in the veins of n true Georgian to moisten the earth beneath his feet, in great haste this writen to mitigate the Suffering which has umlnhitably long eer this time soarly and heavily taxed the broken hearts of the best of Parents This I wish you to immediately communicate to :Major Brown which may temporarily alleviate his troubled mind )Iajor Genl Lnmar will be without doubt our next vice President he will hn,·e no oposition; he hn:; hut few enemies; none formadable; his hilmit is honesty; his i:hieltl his mind; and his weapon his pen in
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