Sam Houston to [George Whitfield] Terrell, February 21, 1842 - Page 4

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              I intend to go to the Island on to-
morrow if Mrs Houston is well enough
to accompany me or to be left alone by
me. She has been quite ill to day[,] but I
hope she will soon be well again. She had
a chill and severe fever! I will probably
be detained one week at the Island.
So soon as I return, I expect to have
news enough to employ an express to Austin.
You of course, will get it, as soon as any
one! If I have not time to write to night
to Mr Miller, as it is quite late, I hope you
will salute him with kind regards, from
Mrs Houston & myself. I wish he may
have time, either to copy, or have copies
so soon as he can, [of] all my vetos & messa-
ges made last Congress and sent to
Captain Stubblefield Post Master here, with
the exception of my principal message

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Sam Houston to George Whitfield Terrell, February 21, 1842. Andrew Jackson Houston Papers #2194, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 2-22/176. [Note: This letter is addressed to "General Terrell." From the time period and content of the letter, it is inferred that the recipient was probably Texas attorney general George Whitfield Terrell.]