James Hope to Stephen F. Austin, 07-17-1826 James Hope 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 06-22-2010 Stephen F. Austin Unknown 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. 1373 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 07-17-1826 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

Trade, currency, and Indians.

17 July. 1826

Dear sir

I have sent my son and Capt. Chrisman down to meet you and Mr- Castleman at your office in respect of Mr- Castleman's Improvement I wish to leave it to yourself Capt. Chrisman and Mr- Castleman and whatever you agree on will satisfy me, paying him in cattle or any kind of Mirchandise that I have, I understood your Brother Brown that you were wanting Beeves. I have two one of them Being a very Excellent one. If you can make any arrangement with castleman I will drive them down to you.—We are all arlarmed here on account of Indians and have moved down to Milicans, But as yet we have seen no Indians—I should take it a favour of Mr- Castleman, as I am now on way down If I could at any leisure time I have be moving part of my Property on to the ground.—

James Hope.

Col. Stephen F. Austin.