Edwin W. Moore to Louis P. Cooke, December 24, 1841 - Page 20
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eight thousand dollars, which were placed at your disposal[;]
that for the $10,000 that you had asked, there was but 2000
wanting, which I proposed paying to any agent that you
thought proper to name, as we were doing all that we
could to get it[.] You refused to do it, and the blame is not
ours[.] Neither the Government or myself could appear as robbers
and get money by force, but all legal means were used
and the Govt has this day informed me that the two thou-
sand dollars are ready[.] So you see sir[,] that if you had
had the politeness and prudence to wait, as was just, and
leave an agent, we should have been saved all this disgust
which you have brought on as entirely without cause.
X X X X X X
“Let us drop this, Commodore Moore, for I certainly
feel ashamed. [I]t is against my sentiments, and I assure you
that nothing but the provocation of your insults, could have
induced me to enter into this disagreeable correspondence.
But let us drop it, and if possible, forget it forever. I have
the pleasure of offering myself to you with all sincerity as
your friend and Obedient Servant.
(sigd) Juan Pablo Anaya
“PS
I had forgotten to say that under the supposition that
you would not object to my agents going to Texas. Should it hap-
pen that he does not arrive in time for the San-Bernard,
you would oblige me by giving me a passport for a vessel,
which in that case I wish to send.”
After the receipt of this letter in which Genl
Anaya put great stress of the evidence of Mr Elys the French
Consul who breakfasted with me that morning, and to whom
I shewed the Genls letter, and after some conversation with him,
I proposed to him that he should go up and see Genl Anaya
and put him right in some additional misstatements in
his last letter, as, if I, did it[,] it would be in strong language,
and at the same time to carry a letter to the Governor[,] enclosed
is
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Edwin W. Moore to Louis P. Cooke, December 24, 1841. Texas Navy Papers, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.