Letter, San Patricio, to Franklin Whiting.
Manuscript signed letter in ink sent from San Patricio, Texas. The author explains that he is "in feeble health" and "travelling for the recovery of my health and to view the country," adding that he had recently received a letter "informing me of the death of my wife."...
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| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | Manuscript signed letter in ink sent from San Patricio, Texas. The author explains that he is "in feeble health" and "travelling for the recovery of my health and to view the country," adding that he had recently received a letter "informing me of the death of my wife." He is enthusiastic about the land: "If this country were known, it would soon populated, for richness of soil it cannot be excelled and the rolling hilly parts are probably as healthy as any part of the known world. All people of delicate lungs ought to visit this region as consumption is not known here. Tejas is about becoming a separate state of Mejico which will doubtlessly increase migration and raise the price of land. Now is the time to speculate. By a recent law, a settler has a right to sell his land whenever he chooses". |
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| Item Description: | Address panel on verso "Franklin Whiting, Druggist, corner of Catharine and Madison Sts. New York". No postal markings as "forward by H.W. Sargeant". San Patricio (meaning Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland) was founded in 1829 by empresarios James McGloin and John McMullen who had received approval from the Mexican government to settle 200 Irish Catholic families on the land. The first groups of families were recruited from the Irish population of New York. In 1834 the colony was legally established as the Municipality of San Patricio in the Mexican state of Coahuila and Texas. The Cushing Library/Chapman Texas Collection copy is part of the Floyd & Louise Chapman Texas & Borderlands Collection. The Cushing Library/Chapman Texas Collection copy contains a typewritten transcript. |
| Physical Description: | 1 folded sheet ; 33 cm |