Fort Settlement 22rd August 1824
Dear Sir
I have waited with some considerable degree of patience until the
present time for the promised notice you were to give me; finding
the month advancing to a close and having an opportunity of
reminding of you by Mr. Knight I have taken the liberty of saying
that as it is a matter of considerable importance with me (and should
be with every old Batchelor) that I wish you would hasten your
visit to this settlement as every preparation is made to have a party
on your arrival I hope you are or will in a few days be able to come
down and I wish you to write me by Mr. Knight and inform me
precisely when you can come down I was on the point of coming
up but as Mr. Knight is going up it will answer all purposes be so
kind as to write me by him and you will oblige
R. Jones
Col. S. F. Austin