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WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1818-1822

7th March 1818 Doc. No. March 7 1818 Any unsettI<I Accounts of Lt Houston, in your office 2 & 3c1 Auditors? Paymaster Gen 1 No charge against him on the Books of 2d Auditor March 7- 1818 Jno. Wellys B. K. [Bookkeeper] Lieut Sam 1 Houston does not stand charged on the Books of the 3c1 Auditor C. Vignon B. K. [Bookkeeper] No charge against him on the books of the Pay Mr- General 1 The original is in the Retired Classified Files, lnclfrm Bureau, 438-439, Department of Interior, U.S. Courtesy of Colonel l\'.I. L. Crimmins, a photo- stat from his private library. EXPENSE ACCOUNT AS SUB-AGENT TO THE CHEROKEES, 1817 1 [May 9, 1818] The United States to Sam Houston Dr 2 9 May 1818 To Money expended for my own, ) an Interpretory & two horses, on express ) 17. 75 Twelve days by order of Gov. Mc- Minn ) Duplicates ) $17.75 I Certify on honor the above is the precise sum of expense necessarily incured, and what I actually expended - Sam Houston Sub Agent Examined and approved Jos. Mc. Minna 1 Sct1n Houston Letters, The University of Texas Library. 2 On January 1, 1817, Houston was assigned to duty in the office of the Adjutant General for the Southern Division of the United States Army. In November of the same year he was withdrawn from that duty and sent as sub-agent for the United States Government to the Cherokee Indians. For a v:ivid description of this period of Houston's life see George Creel, Sam Houston, A Collosus in Buckskin, 22-25, and C. Edwards Lester, Authentic 11 1 /emoirs (1867), 40. C. Edwards Lester wrote four books on the life of Sam Houston; namely, S<t1n Houston and His Re1mbl-ic, 1846; Sam Houston, the only Authentic Memoirs of him ever 1111bl1'shcd, 1855; The Life of Sa·ni Houston, 1867; The L-ifc of Sann Houston, 1883. The last three books are practically identical-the same in context, language, and style, and only slightly different in organization. They differ from the 1846 edition chiefly in the addition of extracts from documents from Houston's pen, that were written after 1846. The first three books-more correctly editions-were published anonymously and were not copyl'ighted. The 1883 edition bears the author's name on the title page, and includes a five-page introduction,