July [15 about] 1826. on Colorado
Col. S. F. Austin
Dear sir
You will haeve heard of the Disaster on the Guadalupe by Mr.
Whigtman. I wish to see you but am Confined with the wounded
man and Mr. Shields who—is very dangerously ill—Should like to
heare from you and what is to be done etc. I hope to be at St. felippe
in 8 or 10 days—Should Dewit have not then arrive [d], I shall set
out for St. Antonio—I wish to engage your thoughts on the subject
of my establishing on the Rio Bacca. My claim now (as the repre-
sentative of the Empresario) to settle that River is two fold greater
than heretofore) first because there is not Territory sufficient
without it; and secondly because I can not with the force I have sustain
the upper settlement
Please think of this
James Kerr