[Transcript of letter from James F. Perry to Stephen F. Austin, October 27, 1830] Page: 2 of 3
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auit waa partly finiahed but, the uniform could not be mad*
for want of information ho* to waKa it Since I arrived iter*
(/ Mr. James Treat the Mexican Conaui gave me a letter of intro-
duction to Co^I!%^^^Ladey She anewed me her huao^nda uni-
form and with the aaaiatance of Mr. -Stephen Austin, I have
got a Taylor hare to take a particular description of it and
when I return to Phil* I will have it made and forwarded
together with the other #6a$ veat Pantaloons Sword Saah
appailetta and belt by the way of New Orleana. I bought a
psadtable writing deak here for you had your name engraved on
it and put in the charge of Mr. W* Austin for you I have not
prooured the Book C*s#/S*or*tary for you ay funds run out
but will buy and bring you one from New Orlean*— I *aw M.
Learning in Phil*, he has aant you some map* they will *e
put in the care of M. V. Auatin for you the law auit with
T+* doea not come to iaaue untill december and Mr Learning
aaya it ia veyy probable that it may be 13 or 13 montha be-
fore there is anything rewovered from that quarter he w^a
absent from the city moat of tfie time I t**er# and nad not
the Geonogical account saich you reqaeated him to aend you
ready but he promiaed he wuld prepare it aoon and aend it to
you/ the Jazette and the Quarterly Review I Xuve not ^ot
-
the paper with the advertiaementa you mentioned was tt. I
expect to get the one that youra waa in but the one Smith*
waa in I am afraid I will not find b*t I will try and if I oan
y d
find them will aend them by Mr Runter. I have reo . lettera
from home. They were all well. I am afraid Woodbury will have
trouble about hie colony, *. I a* told tn*t Pr.ntlo. (the a^me
that broke the Kentucky Insurance Company) and Ool. Mex*r/ha*
f'.
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[Transcript of letter from James F. Perry to Stephen F. Austin, October 27, 1830], letter, October 27, 1830; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth216699/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.