Moses Austin to James Bryan, 09-06-1817 Moses Austin Project Director and Editor Andrew J. Torget Creation of XML version Debbie Liles Initial TEI Formatting Stephen Mues Programmatic and Manual TEI P5 Compliance Ben W. Brumfield Digital Stephen F. Austin Papers 07-02-2011 James Bryan Unknown Hazel Run, MO Eugene Barker, ed., Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1919: The Austin Papers, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924), 3 vols., Vol 1, Part 1, pp. 320-321 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 09-06-1817 Programmatic restructuring and manual clean-up to comply with TEI P5 2.3.0 Restructured to meet TEI P5 standards Digital creation of XML file

Commerce. Financial difficulty.

Sept 6th 1817

Dear Son,

Mr Donnal has recd from me 380 Dollares being the full amount of the sale of your Whiskey, which on being gauged at St Louis did not hold fully 40 Gall. I think something must be wrong in the manner of gaugi[n]g the Whiskey at the Still house—

I Pray you to make a visit to Herculanm as soon as you can I have had your Note renew.d—at the Bank—to Boring for 500 Dollars I start this moment to the Mines for your Mother shall return on Monday next I wish you to give some kind of an answer about the Beef and in my opinion you had better collect all you can and send them forward to St Louis you Know the 15 of Octobr is near At Hand when Cox will be calling on us

Moses Austin [Rubric]

love to Emely and the son

[Addressed:] Mr James Bryan Hazel Run