Stephen F. Austin to James Bryan, 11-02-1818 Stephen F. 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 07-08-2011 James Bryan Herculaneum, MO Unknown 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. 333-334 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 11-02-1818 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

Order for cattle.

Herculaneum Novr. 2, 1818

Mr James Bryan

You have offered to furnish me with some articles to commence business on Red River. All I want is as follows four yoke of oxen, or two yoke of oxen and four Horses Ten Cows and one or two Bulls When you get to Red River you can decide whether you will enter into the Cotton business or not and if you do you can make such arrangements as you think best—and if you do not—you will oblige me be giveing Ballard all the aid in your power

I will account to you for all articles you may furnish at the highest rates as soon as I am able to do so— S F Austin.