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Post by benotforgot on Jul 3, 2011 8:49:43 GMT -6
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I will now my dearest, speak of my departure from home to day. I had no forebodings of ill, and yet my heart was wrung, with extreme sorrow, and regret. No matter what may await me, in the character of success, or earthly fame, they will be poor requitals for what I felt. When I rode four miles in comparative silence, I tried to sing "oft in the stilly night," as it was a sad air, and regret that I do not know the words of "Home Sweet Home," homely, as our home is, for surely it is, & will be the home of my affections. I feel truly sad, yet cheerful, that I left you in apparently better health, than usual, as I think. . . .
I was sorry that Sam, was in such a way, when I left home. He pointed at my cheek, and said, "Pappa what is that? Is it a tear??" I said "Yes my son," in hopes that he would sympathize with me, but I was mistaken in Sam, as usual. Dearest, I must close my epistle, with assurances, of my unceasing love for you, and prayers, for your health, and happiness.
Thy faithful & devoted husband
Houston
Dearest, write to me at Washington, often as you can!
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Post by benotforgot on Jul 3, 2011 9:13:48 GMT -6
[/u][/b] The party is going on below, and is rather a brilliant thing for Huntsville. There is a room for dancing, and one for conversation. You will readily imagine where I held my levee. . . .
Thy devoted wife.
M.L. Houston
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Note :: For an account of MacDonald's trip to Austin and his efforts to establish the penitentiary in Huntsville see Alexander MacDonald to Margaret MacDonald, April 3, 1846, in the Alexander MacDonald Papers in the vertifcal files of the Sam Houston Memorial Library, Huntsville, Texas.
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Post by benotforgot on Jul 3, 2011 9:26:09 GMT -6
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I am not writing in the Chamber of the Senate, and speaking is going on! Not of as much interest to me as to think, and write about you, and those, that we love! . . .
Tomorrow night, I intend to go with Col Reily, to the President's to a small "levee," [in the margin: the last this season, if I have not to go on account of some Texian!!] and I can assure you, that if I live I will think of you, and the "cows," and if I speak of them, I will let you know what I say. . . .
Thy ever Devoted Houston
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Post by benotforgot on Jul 3, 2011 10:34:51 GMT -6
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Thy devoted wife
M.L. Houston
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Houston wrote Margaret on July 17, 1846, that he had received the letter, but Alexander MacDonald did not arrive in Washington until Juy 28, 1846. See Alexander MacDonald to Margaret MacDonald, July 28, 1846, in the vertical files of the Sam Houston Memorial Museum, Huntsville, Texas. In this letter MacDonald describes his introduction to President Polk by Houston, and writes: "No man's introduction goes as far here as old Sam's. He is Polk's right hand man -- in fact he has more of the cares of the government on his shoulders than Polk has, although Polk receives all the credit."
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