Francis Keller, Esqr.—
Dear Sir: As you are about to visit the Colony of Colonel Austin,
I shall take it a particular favor if you will make enquiries
respecting the prospects of establishing a printing Press in that place.
Should Col. Austin be of opinion that a well conducted Journal
would aid his views and assist in peopling that interesting section
of country I can remove with an entire new establishment, which I
lately selected in Cincinnati, and is at present here—The original
cost, with paper sufficient for one year, and all expences of
transportation from this to Texas, will cost not quite $1000, or at most
would not exceed it.
A paper established there at this period would more materially aid
the improvement of that country than any thing I know of.—Various
and erroneous opinions have gone abroad in Ohio and Kentucky,
respecting the soil, climate, products, etc. and if a paper was printed
there it would receive a wide circulation in the United States—In
Ohio, several families would have moved over but for fear of the
truth of what they had heard against the country—I endeavored to
do away with those impressions and promised to write to them—they
are persons of easy circumstances, and respectable character, you can
acquaint Col. Austin with my situation, etc., etc.
Request him to write to me on the subject—
R. C. Langdon.
Natches, June 28,1825.