Winchester 14th Novr 1824
Col Stephen F Austin
Dear Sir After a long loansome and tedious journey I arrived
at home on the 7th Inst., and agreeable to a request you made I have
formed a little company to go on to your settlement with goods two
young Gentlemen of this place will go on with me with between 2
and three thousand dollars worth of goods our object will be to
trade them off for Mules and to make a[s] quick and good sale of
the goods as possible I shall bring my family on with me if
convenient I would like if you would have a cabbin built for me in
Town we expect to be there sometime in Feby, should we find the
trade profitable and can collect mules tolerably fast and should it
meet with your approbation it is likely that we will open a fiew
goods in your Province as one of the Young Men who will be a long
has a Brother here who is a Merchant that will furnish him with any
amount of goods that he can sell and we are all to have an eaqual
interest. I now think that it will be best for us to take a trip to
Some of the Spanish Towns in order to enable us to make a good
and speedy trip however we do intend to take and be governed by
your advice entirely I would be glad that you would be ready to
give as your advice so soon as we arrive I calculate that we will
have a long some usefull articles for the people of your Colony.
Thomas Westall [Rubric]