Brazoria Nov. 5. 1832
Dr Sister,
I believe I have nearly got through the troublesome business
of settling my affairs with the Hawkins estate and I have in this
settlement given up at least one fourth of what I was entitled to,
in order to have it finally finished and off my mind.
Mr Perry is going on very well and will soon have some cabbins
up, I have a situation joining him so that after a while we will
be near together, within half a mile, and I hope shall yet enjoy
some peace in each others society—it distracts me to see you
unhappy—everything has turned out differently from what I expected
when I first wrote to Perry to move, the prospects were then very
good and the country in peace, but if you were satisfied I should
not be at all discouraged at the present state of things—this country
must prosper in the end, it cannot be otherwise-—this year has been
bad—unusually wet, and filled with trouble, but next year will be
much better—this world is all trouble, or not so bad, just as we
chuse to make it—content is everything.
Stephen