A Holdridge to Stephen F Austin, 08-23-1830 A Holdridge 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 08-26-2010 Stephen F Austin St Albans, Vermont 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. 471 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 08-23-1830 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 S. H. Barlow, who, if pleased with Texas, may be the means of taking hundreds of settlers from Vermont.

Col. Stephen F Austin

Sir permit me to introduce you to S H. Barlow of St. Albans Vermont the present Post Master of a County Town— he is a Gentleman of first rank in society—believing you will be happy to recieve and Treat him as such—as he intends visiting your Colony. Any information or assistance given him will not only confer a favor on a friend but on your humble Servant if he should conclude to locate himself in Texas it would be the means of hundreds emigrating from this Country to yours— I expect to be on this fall and am in hopes to bring with me 50 or more families. I have been able to start considerable of a fever, if you will send me your history of that Country with the constitution and all other information in your possession that will be important to a people that knows nothing about that country, you will very much obliege your humble servant

A. Holdridge M. D

St Albans Vermont Augt. 23r 1830