Stephen F. Austin to A. G. Wavell, 07-xx-1824

Stephen F. Austin to A. G. Wavell, 07-xx-1824 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 07-17-2011 A. G. Wavell Unknown Mexico 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. 869 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 07-xx-1824 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

Discouragements.

[About July—,1824?]

Dr. Wavel I recd a few lines from you a day or two ago without date or signature post marked in Mexico you ask how I am getting on to which I answer not very well—and I assure you I am heartily sick of the whole business and shall gain nothing by it but losses and fatigue, and if you wish to keep out of trouble let Colonization matters alone, either here or any where else—The grant I recd was to settle 300 families agreeably to the Colonization law, for which I recd for my self 22 1/2 leagues of land—the half of which belongs to my friend in Orleans so that I have 11 1/4 Leagues for my share—you blame me for not writing to you in London, I did write often by way of Orleans, and if I had encouraged you to bring out goods to a large amt. perhaps you would have blamed me more I have spent more in this dammed affair than it will ever be worth—we are burnt up by the drouth, and there is some Sickness—tho I still think the country is healthy—I can return you the money you let me have, and will secure a piece of land here for you

[Stephen F. Austin.]

[Addressed:] A Don Arturo Wavel en Mexico