The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston, Volume 1: 1839-1845 Page: 60
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You see my Love, that I am really in love yet! Yes, I am constrained
to love either by nature, or the force of circumstances. I feel
that I am not to blame for Oh I have a very fair apology for loving!
Don't you think so Maggy? Do you take?
My love, I showed your poetry to a special friend who was greatly
pleased with it. I deem myself greatly your debtor for the compliment.
I taxed my muse, but it was all in vain-I cou'd not stir up my
Pegasus; horses are very poor here! and to that I wou'd have you
ascribe my failure! But I know you will prefer that I shou'd write
prose-because I am always prosing when I write!
My love, I embrace you, but hope soon to clasp you to my heart!
and press you there continually. Salute all that we are in duty bound
to regard.
Most tenderly thy husband
Margaret
'This passage refers to the night Houston and Margaret met, on May 31,1839, at the
home of Martin Lea in Sommerville, Alabama, and to later visits to the home of
William Bledsoe in Mobile, Alabama. See Roberts, 18-19.
Austin, 7th Jany 1841
Oh my beloved,
Happy was I last night when Major Neighbors1 called upon me
with your "Christmas Gift"2-met me in a sad and sorry moment,
but bro't to me a balm! Yes a balm that all the spices of Arabia cou'd
not combine. I had been gloomy from the fact that we have no mails,
and I had lost all hope of intelligence from my beloved Margaret.
Dear Spirit, how much I had reflected on your situation and upon
my own-A being that I loved so much might not be well, and languishing
on a sick bed and none to watch her heaving heart and
minister to her situation and mitigate her anguish! This I fancied
that I cou'd do to some extent, were I with her! By your dear letter I
was advised that you were not well, but not dangerous! Even this
gave me some relief, tho very imperfect, I must confess to you! My
prospect [is] of remaining here, until the last of the present month. It
may be that I will be detained here until the 6th or 7th Poximo! [sic]
60 : CHAPTER 2
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Roberts, Madge Thornall. The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston, Volume 1: 1839-1845, book, 1996; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9715/m1/78/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.