Dear
I have sent you nothing of the Articles you have sent for because
I have them not Domesticks Saddles and Bridles mens and
wom[en]s shoes I have not in store as to country linen its not
to be obtained for Cash because it is not in the country I made
every Exerti[on] in my power to get linen when in Barrell I send you a few pounds—Coffee a Box
Bosses [sic] and Gun Powder—with a handkf
as soon as the Articles you mention can be had I will bill them
but Coffee and Sugar as well [as] Domestick and menes and
Womans Shoes are Cash in hand and cannot be had without to
purchase them with out money cannot be done— I did not think
I would leave
Moses Austin
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