Brasoria Texas. May 26th 1829
Dr Sister
I improve the opportunity which offers pr Schooner Eclipse, Cap.
J. Austin which Sails to Morrow for N. Orleans of Acknowledging
the recpt of Your letter dated the the 16 of April last, the dispach
with which it came (only 15 days from Potosi) has Made the
immense distance between us Seem Shorter than ever before. So much
so Indeed that I have not wholly abandoned the anticipacion of Yet
embracing you under the roof of my own Cabbin in this country, and
from hints in your last letter, I really flatter myself that I shall have
that pleasure this fall—our country is beginning to call the attention
of capitalists not only in the U. S. but in Europe, and I am fully
sensible that the period cannot be far distant when our fullest
anticipaclons will be realized. I have nothing very interesting to
communicate to you, the country is improving and Emigrants are
dropping in almost daily. Crops look fine and we have every prospect of
an abundant harvest, about 500 hundred Bales of Cotton was made
last year for exportation and about sixty or 80 hogsheads of Sugar,
this year the Sugar crop will treble and a much larger Cotton crop
than ever before
Brother is now on a visit with us, he begins to look quite old and
the wrinkles are becomeing plainer daily, I think this fall he will
visit Missouri he intended doing so this Spring but, being anxious
to close all his Colony business he declined going in until it was
accomplished entirely.
Eliza wrote you Sometime Since acknowledging the recpt of your
letter accompanied by a box of garden Seeds which was very
acceptable—she has promised to write you by the Vessel, and out brag you
if possible, on Young Stephen—tho I say to her that odds are against
her for she has but one to brag on and You have half a dozen-
Remember me to Mr. Perry and tell Joel and Austin to improve their
time, I shall want Austin in about a year from this, and in the mean
time keep him at School, and let him attend closely to Arithmatic,
as I expect to Make a business Man of him.
Write us often my dear Sister, I shall expect that you and Eliza
will keep up a steady correspondence—females can always find
Matter to fill one sheet and sometimes—two, to one another and
therefore I intend in future to resign my letter writing (to you)
principally to Eliza.
Kiss Mary for me and her Aunt who has promised me to send her
some pieces of Embroydery and drawings of her own execution as
soon [as] materials can be procured from N. Orleans.
Brother
J. B. Austin [Rubric]
P S. Eliza begs you to excuse her for not writing by this
conveyance, as she has been so engaged that she has not had time, but she
has promised me to write by the next opportunity
[Addressed] Mrs. Emily M Perry Potosi Missouri [by] Schooner
Eclipse