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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1834

Globe, or Intelligencer. It confirms the hanging of those rascals, and says, the prospects of "Texas are truly cheering at this time." You may rest assured, that I will give all attention to your interest, and that of your Brother as inclivicluals,-As money is scarce, and I have some small demands, that I should like to meet, I have concluded for you to make any arrangement, not under $2,000 dollars part down, and the balance to be paid in twelve months, with such other provisions, contingent, in lands as you may think best. Write to me clirectly: as I may stay some 8 or 10 days, here, and if you make any arrangement, I wish you to authorize me to use part of it, by Draft for the present. I pray you, the moment that you get this note, to call upon Willard at the City Hotel, and ask him for a Map which I gave him to lay up in the Bar- I came off, and forgot it- Fold it up handsomely,- enclose 'it in a letter to me;, and enclose the letter to Mr. Felix Grundy 2 of the Senate.- It was one that was presented to me by your Brothers friend- I can't do without it. You may rest satisfied that I will correspond with you when I reach Texas, constantly. Do the best you can, and I will be satisfied, only let me know the result directly. May God Bless you. Sam Houston. Mr. James Prentiss P. S. Colonel Austin 3 arrived safe at home before the 9th of Feby, but no special news from him, at Nacogdoches. I have con- fidence in all that my correspondent states. Yours Houston. [Addressed]: To Mr. James Prentiss Wall Street New York Mail. [ Endorsed] : Sarni Houston 11 april 1834 answered 15 ApL 1 Felix Grundy (September 11, 1777-December 19, 1840), lawyer, jurist politician. See sketches by J. C. Guild, Old Times in Tennessee, 293-299. J. W. Caldwell, Bench and Bar of Tenn6ssee, 63-60. Dictionary of American Biography, VIII, 32-32. 2 Stephen F. Austin. See E. C. Barker, Life of Stephen F. Austin (1925). Dictionary of American Biography, I, 437-440. Houston was misinformed. Austin had been arrested in January, on his way home from Mexico, and was detained in Mexico until July, 1835.

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