Anahuac January 24th 1832
My esteemed Colonel Austin
I have seen Mr McKinney and received his information
respecting public tranquility of which I was previously in possession I
hear with pleasure your proposed interview and should be happy to
go as far as Saint Philipe to meet you, as I consider you very weak
from your exhausting sickness, if my manifold avocations, and more
numerous embarasments, expecting every moments trops from
Matamoros, directing the various sections of Publeck Works on this
Point, Land office business, and other negociations, did not employ
my existence the most shackled of human beings, yet I shall make an
exertion, and will meet you at any place you will appoint on the
San Jacinto or the Buffalo Bayo.
I have not answered your letter handed me by Mr. Treet and
which threw me into some consternation it might create an arduous,
if not an insuperable difficulty in any person placed in my posetion
and circumstances to do so without very poignant feeling and
communicating the same perhaps to his correspondent however our
polished atmosphere seems more serene and I shall meet jovl when
and as soon as you please
Juan Davis Bradburn [Rubric]