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Washington
11th Oct 1842
Dear Bagby,
I thank you for your favor and the kindness accompanying. I will always be ready to give you a clean hand, when I have the pleasure to greet you! I will try and keep clean hands here, and if possible wash the country some too. A little cast-steel, soap or steel with-out soap well applied, would have prevented the Mexicans ever leaving Texas- But so the world wags!!!
We reached here on the 2nd, after sundry bothers and mishaps. The roads are changed, and to miss the right one, I found, and [sic] easy matter!
We did not break down, for that would have been too bad – as I am cleanly ‘broke up’!
We will soon get to business and move on as usual, but what will be done in war matters I can’t pretend to say! Since I came here Col. Bennett passed on with a part of his command, and as they wished
Object Description
| Rating | |
| Identifier | MSS0113-b01f01-03 |
| Title | Letter from Sam Houston to Thomas Bagby, October 11, 1842 |
| Alternate Title | Sam Houston: Correspondence, 1842-1858 |
| Author | Houston, Sam, 1793-1863 |
| Description | Letter from Sam Houston written after he arrived in Washington, to Thomas M. Bagby. Houston relates the troubles he faced during the journey and mentions efforts to stop Mexican forces from invading Texas. |
| Date Original | October 11, 1842 |
| Source | 1 letter (4 p.) |
| Type | Text |
| Language | English |
| Subject Terms |
Houston, Sam, 1793-1863 ; Bagby, Thomas M., 1814-1868 ; Houston, Margaret Lea, 1819-1867 |
| Geographic Subject Terms | Washington (Tex.) |
| Era | 1840s |
| Publisher | Electronic version published by Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas |
| Collection | MSS0113 Old Vault Collection |
| HPL Location | Old Vault Collection, Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library |
| Finding Aid | Finding aid available at: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/houpub/00142/hpub-00142.html |
| Rights | Permission to publish or reproduce materials from the Old Vault Collection must be obtained from the Houston Metropolitan Research Center. |
| Date Digital | 2012 |
| Format | |
| Digitization Specifications | 300dpi ; tiff ; Epson Expression 10000Xl flatbed |
| Transcript | Washington 11th Oct 1842 Dear Bagby, I thank you for your favor and the kindness accompanying. I will always be ready to give you a clean hand, when I have the pleasure to greet you! I will try and keep clean hands here, and if possible wash the country some too. A little cast-steel, soap or steel with-out soap well applied, would have prevented the Mexicans ever leaving Texas- But so the world wags!!! We reached here on the 2nd, after sundry bothers and mishaps. The roads are changed, and to miss the right one, I found, and [sic] easy matter! We did not break down, for that would have been too bad – as I am cleanly ‘broke up’! We will soon get to business and move on as usual, but what will be done in war matters I can’t pretend to say! Since I came here Col. Bennett passed on with a part of his command, and as they wished [end of page 1] me, I gave them a speech, and urged them to cross the Rio Grande, not doubting but what they would find men enough in the field, to enable a force to cross the River with the hope success. What the men of Texas, will do no one can tell, for we must look at them, as men, but not as an organized body. To do any good, we must unite, and act in harmony, or we can not exist as a nation. We could be a great nation. We have all the national elements if we had a larger portion of the moral leaven, to raise us into harmonious proportions. When will we get it? It must soon come, or all will be loss’d [lost]! I hope we will be pretty pleasantly situated here by and by! The Harrises are not first rate, but almost any thing will do, “now a days”. Mrs. Houston is very well and joins me in regards to you, and all our friends in Houston – to whom present us very kindly Thy friend Thomas M. Bagby esq(?) Sam Houston |
| Filename | MSS0113-b01f01-03.pdf |
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| Identifier | MSS0113-b01f01-03 |
| Title | Page 1 |
| Transcript | Washington 11th Oct 1842 Dear Bagby, I thank you for your favor and the kindness accompanying. I will always be ready to give you a clean hand, when I have the pleasure to greet you! I will try and keep clean hands here, and if possible wash the country some too. A little cast-steel, soap or steel with-out soap well applied, would have prevented the Mexicans ever leaving Texas- But so the world wags!!! We reached here on the 2nd, after sundry bothers and mishaps. The roads are changed, and to miss the right one, I found, and [sic] easy matter! We did not break down, for that would have been too bad – as I am cleanly ‘broke up’! We will soon get to business and move on as usual, but what will be done in war matters I can’t pretend to say! Since I came here Col. Bennett passed on with a part of his command, and as they wished |
| Filename | MSS0113-b01f01-03.pdf |
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