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. TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
No. 1770. PHILIP DI.MITT TO LAMAR
La Villa De los Jacales [April 12, 18401
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With pleasure I introduce to your Acquaintance Don Juan Molano, the long devoted and true friend of our Country and her cause,-and still with more ardent pleasure, I offer to your friendship the defender and the protector of those 28 prisoners, that was sent to Matamoros, and ordered to be shot by St Ana in 1836-I hope, that, those gener- ous actions will receive your esteem and attention for this Gentleman, Your True friend & St PHIL DIMITT [Addressed:] To His Exel M B. la Mar President of the Republic of Texas. Austin [Endorsed:] P Dimitt-1840 No date. No. 1772. J. B. LYNCH TO LAMAR
April 13th 1840 Galveston
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in consequence of· my having received more information since writ- ing to you (by Genl Morehouse) on the subject of that communica- tion- & in consideration also of my having as yet received no reply to said communication, I now write more in detail among the papers enclosed to you by me in Feby 1838, was a Card from Col. Knight obligating him to give me titles for a specifyed tract of land on Oyster Creek. · The copy of a contract between Elisha Flack & myself. A sealed letter addressed to William Taylor enclosing a certificate of his age from his mother, & one hundred dollars in Louisiana money. Unsealed notes for Messrs Gray, Nibbs & Earl Williams the Card of Col Knights above mentioned it .is unnecessary to remark is of im- portance to me; & I also wish the copy of my contract with Flack returned to me. Col Gray informs me that he never received the note refer'd to, nor knew, that I had made any communication whatsoever to you on business or otherwise. l\lr Nibbs says he received my note by mail requiring him to deliver "to bca.rer" all papers of mine in his possession-which note (thus sent) must of course have borne to him the appearance of an absurdity-as it was probably intended to do, bJJ the parties, how either to reconcile the note's having been sent at all by you to Mr Nibbs with yr declaration (refer'd to in my last,) to l\fr Taylor that you should not meddle at all in the business, but await my return to Texas or by whom (other than you) it actually was sent (as I cannot under these circumstances suppose it to have been sent by you) remains equally enigmatical. From the date of my commu- nication (of Fehr 1838) to you, all my communication with Texas was cut off-neither my letters to Texas, nor those address'd to me from thence, were received for some months-even my news paper sud- denly ceased to arrive. at length I received l letter from Taylor b_v a unusual route, informing of his having written many previous ones, & receiYed none-I then wrote him one (which he did receive) re- fering him to you. his statement is as follows, viz that on calling
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