Isaac C. Oglem to Stephen F. Austin, 03-09-1825 Isaac C. Oglem 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 05-31-2010 Stephen F. Austin Red River Rapide, Louisiana 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 2, pp. 1055 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 03-09-1825 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

Proposal to build gins, saw mills, etc.

Red River Rapide Louisiana March 9th 1825

Col Stephen F Austin

Dear Sir Having been an early visitor of your part of the country and always entertained of it a favourable opinion I have it in contemplation to move to that part of the Country on Condition that I can purchase land of you My Friend William G Grant [is] the bearer of this I have obligated myself to him to let him have two or three hands to build Gins Saw mills or any other building that he thinks proper to build Also I have agreed to furnish all irons Gin stand etc any obligation or contrat he makes or binds himself to you I will be willing to comply with

Isaac D. Oglem (?)

N B not having the pleasure of being Personal accounted [acquainted] with you I will refer you to Capt R Jones or James Jones. Randolph and Isaac Foster