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€ -4- clerk has already satisfied, me completely, and repeating this same story over again, would not make the case more clear, nor would my belief in his first 'unvarnished tale" be less, should he even now make a different story after having been tampered with. In the extract you send, me from your communication made to the Department of State I perceive you fall into^our so often repeated error—'that my Hostility (as you are pleased to term it) "grew out of your refusal to lend me money* Now Sir I once more say that you never refused to lend me money, and your assertion of that fact is mere invention, nor am I capable of indulging hostility against one for such a reason. Having ex- plained to you fully the causes of withdrawing R& confidence and suspending my intercourse with you, you can be at no loss now for the true reasons, even if you ever were so. But as I never endeavoured to borrow money from you and was refused, the statement was a fabrication on your part to account for an act by which your pride was wounded if nothing more, and. you will do well to take care that wren a different version comes to be given by myself something more than your pride may not suffer. I will avoid the exposure of you if I can, for it 3s a dirty af- fair that it is my wish to be released from any further trouble with, yet it shall be done, and done fully if it becomes neces- sary. At this point of the transaction I give you the privilege
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/m1/4/:
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.