PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuONAPARTE L.nun
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H. Steussi and Fritz have arrived well and sound at your place in time, the news of which will give me much pleasure. I am longing to receive a letter from Fritz telling me how he is getting along. Dis- quieting newspaper reports of an engagement between llexicans and Indians in the neighborhood of Austin have been made here, and that everybody capable of bearing arms have been called out to repel the attack. Upon the receipt of this report I did not want Fritz to depart, although he desired very much to go. Money is not to be bad. Of the money which had been promised, little has come in. I was on the point of sending you exchange on New Orleans for $300, and had the draft in the house when the report reached me that there was fighting at Austin, and that that city was the gathering place for the dissatisfied elements. Now, I sent the exchange back, although the money will be kept in readiness to be used in case of need, but only with the assurance that it can be received. I am very glad that I must withstand everything, as it is very doubt- ful if H. Baumgartner can keep the trade in Rahway; this business has already cost me much pain and money and I can say my money is lit- erally buried and can not be regained for a long time, and then with toil and vexation. I should like very much to receive a letter from Fritz before I depart for Switzerland, which has been fixed at the 16 of this month, which I am sorry to say cannot take place. In the meantime if we receive good reports from you, Franz and I think we shall visit Texas after I have returned from Switzerland. Mr. Capt. Concerning your wife I have been unable to learn only very little. I have written her three times and once I went in search of her myself at Orange ( ?], but no one wanted to know her Recently Tast [ ?] came to see my father and told us that the English widower at whose house she had been living since your departure has moved ~way and that she had gone with him, but he did not know where she 1s at present. We wish very much for Fritz to write to us soon, and it is understood that in case of great need, and if it is safe, that he may draw on me for $300. In the meantime we hope you will find the whole company in the best of health. We greet you all heartily especially Fritz. CHB. LEHMANN. Above all I hope that when order has been restored that the saws will be put into operation. Also try to find, out if it is early enol~gh to bring to Texas in the fall the cables and other little necessities wluch Franz should have brought. If they are necessary, I shall try to send them back. I shall expect a reply about these matters, [Addressed:] 1\fr Louis Capt Austin Texas at Barton Spring near Austin
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