Cany Dec 17th 1832

Dear Sir

I have omited to write on your first return, thinking you much harrassed in business of the Colony, and since thinking to have been there before this time, and am aware that my interest requires me to be there; now that all are geting their deeds, I might make some Collections for I have made my surveying business less profitable than any other as so Small a portion of them are taken and many who have gotten their Deeds live at a distance and still are oweing if You will get any in and retain it in your own hands it will much oblige me, I requested Mr Williams to do so but he neglected it, I then appointed Mr Veeder an Agent to Collect from whom I have no account, An Accidental fall dislocating my shoulder and breaking almost all the bones in my body, has prevented me from being active in my business, and finally left me disabled, But I intend shortly to be at San Felipe when I want to get a Copy of all my deeds, which I have not and Settle with you and Mr Williams and prepare to take my exit, I often am surprised how you get along with all the troubles attendant on your Colony business, not the official But the harmonising, such a heterogenous, mass of which your Colony is Composed, You write me to recommend a quarter for Mr Thos. Fletcher I would recommend a number of prairie quarters but the best with due portion of Timber is that Surveyed for John Cronkrite on the main branch of Prairie Creek adjoining L. L. Veeders. I surveyed it to suit him and is a good one, there is adjoining Doct Cronkrites unsurveyed land on Mestango Creek which would be supurb quarters, and one below Allsburys Survey on the San Burnardo was [near] the Mouth another tolerable quarter unsurveyed,

I made Choice of several Blocks of the Matagorda Town for you which when I see you shall be explained, as they had voted the proprietors to make choice of 4 Blocks to each share while I was sick and located I expostulated, that it was unfair for any one to choose all his first to the exclusion of the absent and obtained leave to select out of those Blocks which were locked up in reserve for future disposition, with which I was satisfied as I chose those in preference to those they had Selected

E R Wightman [Rubric]