Thomas Corwin to Ira Lewis, 04-07-1827 Thomas Corwin 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 07-21-2010 Ira Lewis Lebanon, Natchez, Mississippi 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. 1627 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 04-07-1827 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

Collection of debt.

Lebanon 7th Ap1 1827.

Dear Sir,

I have been employed by the Administrators of Tobias ... to collect the debts of that estate, amongst others I find a due bill against you for $150— with about 4 years interest due thereon. My clients have requested that I should forward the note to some person in your neighborhood, but as I knew yourself and no one else in that quarter, I thought due to old acquaintance to let you know the claim was in my hands. If you will forward a draft to me or any person in . . . [illegible] with a request to some friend there to receive the note and pay the amot I will deliver the note to such person [upon re]ceiving the money — The Admrs [want] to settle soon and th[is is] the only claim not in suit — please to favor me with a reply by return of mail — How stands matters in your country in a professional way — Do you make fortunes at pleasure or are you languishing as we are here in the debts of humility Are you really all Jacksonians or not let me hear from you in regard to these matters.

Thos. Corwin

Ira Lewis Esq Natches Mississippi

[Addressed:] Ira Lewis Esq Attorney at law Natchez Missisippi.