J. C. Payton to Stephen F. Austin, 11-06-1826 J. C. Payton 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 07-17-2010 Stephen F. Austin San Felipe de Austin, Texas 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. 1493 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 11-06-1826 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

Application for land.

San Felipe November 6th 1826

Col S. F. Austin

after a silence of several months, I deliberately Take up my pen to Enquire of you your Feelings respecting my Geting Land in your Colony I hope you may not Entertain The Feeling you seam to Express when we Last Talked togeather I feel willing to believe you do not as theare was some Wormth of Feeling Excited

I hope you will reconsider the Subject and give a more satisfactory reply whitch I shall ask of you on the reception of those few lines Or so soon as is Convenient

J. C. Payton