Brazoria [Dec] 27. 1831
Dr brother :
I recd yours from Bells and have sent all the letters by McKinney
that I can find there is but one— John open'd one which is the
invoice of the goods on board the Dart, he will want it to regulate
the manifest— The Dart will be here tomorrow, also the Elizabeth
and Wildcat— They all left the mouth this morning-—all well and
harmoney. Hunter had best come down I think to attend to the
goods, tho I do not know what arrangements he made
As to settling—I left the whole matter to you from the first—and
did not urge you to any one place in particular I wished you to
please yourself— I will now give a positive opinion, which is that
you go direct and immediately to Peach point, or come to this place—
The idea of a good house for this year must be abandoned, log
cabbins must do—remove all your stock to peach point, make corn there
in the cane brake—let the work at Chocolate go and begin down here
at once—and from this time forward make up your mind finally and
definitively on the subject—and also keep up your sperits—no low
sperits will do in any one as nearly connected to me as you are—it
is noticed by others and attributed to the wrong cause
Mrs Holly has gone. She and Henrys wife send their love to
Emily—Mrs. H. is a divine woman— she will be a neighbor at
peach point, also Henry and Archibald. I mean to make a little
world there of my own
Keep up, my Dr brother—keep up your spirits we will be happy
when we are all collected at Peach point
Shall be up soon
Stephen
I have now taken it on myself to direct where you ought to
settle—think no more about it but go to peach point and fix some
cabbins or a camp, and let building alone for this year— Three years
ago Westall began where he is—he had 1 negro man 1 boy 3 women—
this year he only makes 80 bales of cotton.