Nashville 5th Novr 1826.
Colo. Austin,
Dear Sir
This will be handed to you by my young Friend Colo. Benjn F.
Foster who goes out to Leftwich's Grant as the agent for the
Company. Colo Foster is a young man of sterling entegrity and worth;
any attentions shown him will not be misplaced. He is young and
unacquainted with business, and will feel himself under singular
obligations to you for any information you may have it in your
power to afford him which will facilitate his undertaking. He will
be accompanied by W. E. Winn and three or four other young men
of worth—If all alarm relative to the Indians could be entirely
quieted, the Brassos would populate very rapidly. It is therefore of
the utmost importance to the present settlers in that Country to keep
in perfect friendship with them if possible I should be glad to hear
from yourself the real state of things at present and in prospect with
the different neighboring Tribes. I fear it is more than probable
that my state of health will drive me from this Country, and if the
prospects of rapid settlement on the Brassos is unfavorable I should
move to opalousas in Louisiana I fear I shall not have good health
in this Country, and have but little doubt that in a part judiciously
chosen in the Brassos that I should be healthy, please write me
shortly the present state of your settlements, as to health increase
etc etc
Felix Robertson