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-3- few days after our settlemenL, (about a week perhaps) I thought of the fish, took a Cargador with me, and applied at your Vin- ateria for the fish;-- When the clerk was made to understand what fish I enquired for, he replied—'the fish are sold sir" SoSLd.—pray when were they sold? He went to a book as I sup- posed examined it, and replied that they had been sold at a date months previous to that time, but the date of which I cannot now recollect.-- Such a direct contradiction tu yuur Statement I confess surprised me and awakened suspicions that I had not entertained against you previously—and I then enquired whether he recollected my delivering a keg of Brandy at the time of sending the fish—He replied that he did--I asked have you any of that brandy on hand now?— No Sir, was the answer, it has long since been sold—what was the quality? Best Cogniac SirJ— After all this Sir, could I fail to doubt your fairness as well as ver- acity? Here was a direct contradiction ^Iven to all your state- ments made to me at the settlement, and not by yo^r Porter as you are pleased so ingeniously to imagine—but by the man who did the business—who was the active agent in the affair, and who had the Books as reference to refresh his memory; He said of the Brandy that it was best Cogniac. and this concurred with all previous opinions, and now you talk ^b^ut, "all the persons being in Mexico and that "I could satisfy myself in half an hour If I "would give myself the trouble etc. etc.," Why Sir, of what am I to satisfy myself? What is there more to learn? Your
Copy of transcript for a letter from Anthony Butler to William S. Parrott, on December 12, 1835, calling him out for spreading lies about Butler, and for keeping the money from selling goods that should have gone to Butler.
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[Transcript of letter from Anthony Butler to William S. Parrott, December 12, 1835],
letter,
December 12, 1835;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth216310/m1/3/:
accessed April 30, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.