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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE W.MAR
drop me a. line in answer to this by return mail I will be thankful for the favor. i have the honor to be Sir, with the highest respect, Your friend &. obt. Servt. GEO. C. CR1LDRESS. [ Aclclressed ·:] (Private) Gen. Mirabeau B. Lamar President of the Republic of Texas. City of Austin. LEnclorsed :] G. C. Childress Galveston, June 9th 1841 Answered 29th June rn,11 No. 20-18. BENJAMIN C. FRANKLIN TO LAMAR Galveston 10th June 18-U DEAR GENL. I have a particul<u· necessity in a matter of much personal interest, for a copy of the Journals of the Genl Convention that met the 1st of :March 1836 at Washington to frame a Declaration of Independence and make a Constitution- If there is a spare copy in the State de- partment I [t] will be of advantage to me (there was a no. printed at the Telegraph office in 1836 at Columbia) in the printed Copies the proceedings of the Hth. 15. 16 & 17th irarch are omitted through accident- I wish a printed copy with a transcript from the Files of the department of the procee<lin [g]s including the 14th :March to the close of the Convention- The secretary of State at your suggestion will kindly attend to this for me and forward them by the first op- portunity- Should there be no printed copy in the State department- a copy of the proceedings from the 14th. }Jareb may possibly answer. Yours as usual BENJ. C. FRANKLIN [Addressed:] To His Excellency M. B. Lamar. Austin Texas [Endorsed:] B Franklin Galveston June 10th 18-U Answered 29th June 1841 No. 2052. JAMES IZOD AND OTHERS TO LAJIAR [Printed] MASO~IC BALL. ---·--- The pleasure of your Company is respectfully solicited at a Masonic Ball, to be given at the Capitol, on Thursday evening, the 24th instant. Comp. J A~IES Izon, Brother JOSEPH w APLES, " CHARLES MASON, " A. C. HYDE, " JOHN l\f. SWISHER. " GEO. W. SINKS, " MOSES JOHNSON, " P. w. H U)[PHREYS, " S. W. PIPKIN, " Rrnn HoLL.\N"D, " W. L. C.azENEAU, " T. L. JoN"ES, Austin, 15th June, 1841. Managers. [Addressed:] His Excellency Mirabeau B Lamnr, [Endorsed:] An invitation to a ball- By a committee- Austin July 15th 1841
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