The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston, Volume 1: 1839-1845 Page: 58
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This is a place, that will afford no news to interest to you! I am
sorry for this, but sorrow never yet supplied a defect in happiness.
13th Jany. Until to day, I wou'd not close this letter, tho it is of old
date-we had no mail, and if things keep on a short time, we will
have no Males in the country!! 'Tis 8 oclock PM and we are in secession-doing
no good but wasting candles, without credit to buy more
when they are burned out!
I can tell you no news.
Thy ever devoted husband
Houston
Margaret Lea Houston
[On the outside] Our excellent friend Hockley, & fifty others pray to
be presented to you!
Thine
Houston
1Bishop John Timon, sent to Texas by the Catholic Bishop of New Orleans in 1839,
was often invited to speak at the capital. Hogan, 203.
2Robert Potter, Senator from the Red River District and Secretary of the Navy. For a
biography see Writings, I, 441-42n.
3Thomas Jefferson Green, a brigadier general in the Texas Army. For a biography
see Writings, I, 515n and Handbook of Texas, I, 738.
This letter was not dated but it was written by Houston to Margaret
when he was in Austin serving as a member of the Congress of the Republic
of Texas circa December, 1840.
As it is not time for me to retire to repose, I will just write as
much as I please. I do this because persons will talk less to me, knowing
that I am writing to you, than if I were idle, and I can think of
you as much as I may chuse! As I may write of everything, I will tell
you what I have of Mrs. Barker every day from some beau of hers.
She is said to be gay and much admired. I reckon she is a good
woman, but too thoughtless from what I learn. I say this much only.
I hear nothing culpable in her conduct. That she wou'd fancy to
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Roberts, Madge Thornall. The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston, Volume 1: 1839-1845, book, 1996; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9715/m1/76/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.