Letter from Sam Houston to Thomas Bagby, May 13, 1843

              Washington
13th May 1843
My Dear Bagby.
	I thank you for your favor by last mail. I am happy to learn that you have some happiness, and particularly so, as public servants experience so little respite from anxiety and exertion. You speak of that miserable [Do?] Moore. The poor soul will fall, by his own poison. Or rather he will be strangled with his own [?]! If it were not that he injured my country I would not regard all his slander. He like the gloated maggot, can only live in his own corruption. A healthy atmosphere would destroy him at once! He is heaping up wrath against the day of wrath, and the righteous judgement [sic] of the wicked. I do regard him as the cause, of our brave fellows languishing in the loathsome prisons of Mexico—as well as Moores late [Transit?] Piracy! How he will answer to his country for such heinous offenses, time must tell!
	I thank you for the trouble which I have cause you about my h… business, and can only say, I will do as much in time for you in the same way. Mrs Mans [?] or Brown’s obligations, I will send down, again, and do pray see if I can sell them for any thing. See our friend Lubbock, and ask him if they would sell at auction! and if you can let me know if any thing can be obtained for them. Brashier may want them. See what he will give! I thought Earls note was for good money, as it did not say Texas money! Look at it. Do with it, and the demand on Western as you may