Anahuac January 24th 1832

My esteemed Colonel Austin

I have seen Mr McKinney and received his information respecting public tranquility of which I was previously in possession I hear with pleasure your proposed interview and should be happy to go as far as Saint Philipe to meet you, as I consider you very weak from your exhausting sickness, if my manifold avocations, and more numerous embarasments, expecting every moments trops from Matamoros, directing the various sections of Publeck Works on this Point, Land office business, and other negociations, did not employ my existence the most shackled of human beings, yet I shall make an exertion, and will meet you at any place you will appoint on the San Jacinto or the Buffalo Bayo.

I have not answered your letter handed me by Mr. Treet and which threw me into some consternation it might create an arduous, if not an insuperable difficulty in any person placed in my posetion and circumstances to do so without very poignant feeling and communicating the same perhaps to his correspondent however our polished atmosphere seems more serene and I shall meet jovl when and as soon as you please

Juan Davis Bradburn [Rubric]