William Carroll to Stephen F. Austin, 11-05-1826 William Carroll 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 07-16-2010 Colo. Foster Stephen F. Austin Nashville, Tennessee Texas 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. 1489 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 11-05-1826 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

Introducing B. F. Foster.

Nashville, November 5. 1826

Sir:

Altho not personally known to you, I make no apology for introducing to your acquaintance Colo Benjamin F Foster of this place, who goes to Texas as the agent for the Leftwich Grant.

Colo Foster is a young Lawyer of fine education and good talents— of extensive and highly respectable connections and has always sustained the character of a moral, intelligent and honorable young gentleman-—As such it gives me pleasure to recommend him to your kind civilities and friendly offices.

Wm. Carroll

[Addressed:] Colo. Stephen F Austin Texas. Colo Foster.