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love? A thousand fancies are flitting across my mind, but you will
readily imagine what they are!
I have been told that several persons are expected to depart for
Austin early in the morning. For that reason I thought it best to write
tonight although it is getting quite late. I am writing in Mrs.
Winfield's drawing room, and it is pretty much filled with company.
This will account to you for the confused and hurried manner in
which my letter is written. Mrs. Winfield6 sends her compliments to
you and says she has a fine looking dog called Sam Houston. Oh
and it has a pretty little mate for him named Maggy.
I will write to you again by Capt Black if he goes up and I will
endeavor to interest you more than I am able to do at present. Do
write to me very often. It is late at night-quite late.
Farewell my best beloved.
Thy own devoted
Maggy.
P.S. Dr. Watson7 begs to be remembered to you. Oh, if I could only
see you! My love you will hear of poor Mrs. Brown's death (formerly
Mrs. Mann.)8 Mr. Winfield sends his compliments. Maggy
P.S. My dear husband, after I finished writing to you last night, I
received a letter from Young9 containing the intelligence that Sister
Royston's little Margaret Antoinette was no more. My heart is oppressed
with grief and I feel as if I could scarcely bear it. Oh that you
were with me! He says that Sister V[arilla] is almost broken-hearted.
Mr. Bledsoe has just started to Cedar Point. He will return tomorrow.1Edward H. Winfield was assistant quartermaster of the Texas Army, tax assessor
of Harris County, and later lived in Washington County. For a biography see Writings,
I, 402-403n, and Handbook of Texas, II, 923.
2The Dunham family resided in Montgomery County. Montgomery, 276.
3Matthew Burnett had a plantation on Little Cypress Creek eight miles north or
Harrisburg. William Physick Zuber, My Eighty Years in Texas, (Austin: University of
Texas Press, 1971), 80. For a history of the plantation see Max Freund, ed., Gustav
Dresel's Houston Journal, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1954), 162.
4Alexander H. Phillips, a lawyer in Galveston. For a biography see Handbook of
Texas, II, 372.
5Major Isaac N. Moreland, chief justice of Harris County. See Writings, I, 463n.
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