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could my sisters rcacly to come immediately- I think therefore we may expect them early in November I should haYe been up before this to have seen you, but every time I hear from Houston you haYe either gone or are just going to Rich- mond or some other place- I shall return ere long at any rate- as I despair of seeing you down here-- Should yon have occasion to write to my father soon, please mention what I say in regard to the family- when they are expected &c I had a letter from Judge Webb.- He will certainly be here he says in Oct or November & his family will follow in Jany-By the way- • what think you of him for the Chief Justice? Is he eligible? (See an Editorial in the Intelligencer of to day which I have written on the Appointment of Mr. Birdsall 23 by the President) He informs me in his letter that he sent under cover to you, the Civil Code of Louisiana for me- Have you received it? I would ask you to write but I know it is useless- You are com-: plained of every where on this score,- I have had a dozen messages from home to you, and scoldings "too tedious to mention" to be de- livered not from the letter sheet- I merely replied to them "it would be useless"- · I have some land scrip to send to Live Oak Point- Do opportunities ever offer ?- As ever Your friend SAML A RODERTS- P. S. Remember me kindly to Mr & Mrs Randall & little Rebecca Ann- Do'-nt forget this r Addressed:] Hon M. B. Lamar Houston. Texas [Endorsed:] S A Roberts Galveston 28 Sept 1838 Political &c
No. 823. SAl\lUEL RHOADS FISHER TO LAMAR
l\Iatagorda October- 2nd: 1838
Gen: MIRABEAU B. LAMAR l\IY DEAR Sm.
In the first place permit me to offer you my congratulations on the distinguished station to which your fellow Citizens have called you, and to the exercise of the duties of which you will soon be legally called- l\Iy object now is to ask of you the favor to bear in mind the appli- cation I make for the appointment of Thomas l\I. Duke as Collector of this port-)fr: Duke is the Nephew of the late Chief Justice Mar- shall; has been a resident of, and participater in the trouble~ of this Country for Sixteen years, and has invariably been a good member of Soriety and most valuable Citizen- he was our first constitutional Alcalde, and is well qualified for the office I now solicit for him- his pursuits in early life were those of a merchant, he has a family of yo~ng children, and though possessed of his head right Land as a colomst, would find the emoluments arising from the office a ver_v desirable as- sistance- Under the administration of Gen. Houston, he was an ap- "[Note in document:] I thought he dcscn·ecl a sly cut for being only sus- 11ected of writing that most sarnge urticle in the Civilian in the latter part of June- If he really is the author- God help him-
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