Stephen F Austin to James F Perry, 10-02-1833 Stephen F Austin 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 11-30-2010 James F Perry Mexico San Felipe de Austin, Texas 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. 1006-1007 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Letter 10-02-1833 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

Distress over losses from cholera in Texas. Despondent over disorders and revolutions in Mexico.

Mexico October 2 1833

Dr Brother,

I am so much afflicted by accounts of the deaths by cholera in Texas that I can scarcely write anything. I have heard of John Austin, his wife and child and of my [dear?] sister's daughter Mary. . . . Cap. Martin. Good God what a blow. And whether it has taken you all off is uncertain. I am too wretched to write much on this subject or any other.

I left with Williams a great number of deeds signed by me so that he might furnish all the titles of the . . . colony. Take possession of them and of all my papers. Should these blanks fall into bad hands they will make any use of them they please.

I will try and get home as soon as I can. There has been no meeting of Congress since early in August until a few days since, so that nothing is done. I shall wait but a short time longer. I am tired of this government. They are always in revolution and I believe always will be. I have had much more respect for them than they deserve. But I am done with all that. You do not write to me [no one] writes to me. farewell

S. F. Austin

[Addressed:] Al Sor J. F. Perry del Comercio San Felipe de Austin