The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Volume V

PArEns OF MrnABEAU Buo)lAPARTE LAM,m

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No. 1468. CITIZENS' COMMITTEE TO LAMAR

City of Austin Oct (3, 18391

To His Excellency 1\IrnADEAU B. LAMAR President of the Republic Sm,

We have been directed by the Committee of Arrangement to invite you to participate &c in a public Dinner to be giYen to you in the City of Austin on Tuesday the 8 Instant and also to inform you that [the committee] of arrangements would meet you at Esq. Hornsbys, ten miles below this place, at ten oCloc;k on that clay. If it should not be convenient for you to meet your fellow citizens at Austin as soon as they plan please mention the earliest day there- after that may coincide [ ?] with your arrangements. We have the honor to be with great respect Your friends & fellow citizens JAMES BURKE R. F. BRENHAM D G GREER [Addressed:] To His Excellency M. B. Lamar Bastrop [Endorsed:] Letter from R F Brenham Austin Oct 3rd 1837 Per- sonal 1837

No. 1470. .M. B. WILLIAMS TO LAMAR

Wetumpka Ala Octr 4th 183~

M. B. LAMAR

Pres. Rep: Texas, DEAR Sm I am sure that the high position you occupy in the countrv of Your adoption, and which you fill with so much honor to Yourself both at home and abroad, imposes multifari- ous and ardious duties which leaves you but little time to de\·ote to privet Correspondents- but as an old Georgia acquaintance & friend~ have presumed to trespass upon your [patience?] and time; and also unavoidably to . [faded] the postage, for which I tmst your generous nature will readily for give and grant me the small favor which it is the object of this Communication to ask. .I left Georgia in the summer of last Year with the intention of set- tling at l\fobile; but from this I have been detered by the desolating SC:urge that have visited that City the last & present seasons, and I have now pritey much made up my mind to go to Texas, where I should have gone two years ago; but for the doubts I entertained of the propriety of taking my family there in the then unsettled state o_f the Country. 1'f_y object in troubling you with this Communica- t10n is to ask, aud get, information; with this view I beg lenve to· request that when at leisure you give me briefly, your \'iews of the C?untry on those points particularly most likely to interest an f y] man with a young !J.lld growing family compaired with Gn. or .:\la. 'l'here are two or three heads of families of much respectibility will probnbly be influenced by my decission, in foct I have never before witnessed so ~eneral a disposition to migrate as I see prerniling among the peo- ple of i\ln. I shall be uble to take with me some few thousands dollars

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