The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston, Volume 2: 1846-1848 Page: 55
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missioned by Louis Philippe, the Emperor of France, to paint a series of portraits of American
statesmen to hang in the royal gallery in Versailles. George P. A. Healy, Reminiscences
of a Portrait Painter (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1894), 138. Among his portraits
were Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and John Quincy Adams. No
information has been located to indicate what became of this portrait of Houston.
4Andrew Jackson's home in Nashville, Tennessee.
Huntsville, May 1st, 1846
Ever dearest love,
No letter yet, since the one from Louisville.1 My anxiety is almost
more than I can bear, but it can not be interminable, and I have
some fortitude with it, and a little pateince [sic], which I hope will
not desert me at this trying season. I had calculated upon getting
letters from you, by Mr William Palmer, who recently made a visit to
Huntsville, but he returned on yesterday, with nothing from you, except
a newspaper containing the intelligence of your arrival in Washington
City.2
This was a sore disappointment, but it was immediately followed
by another. Tonight I recd a book with your direction, entitled
"Fremont's first and second expeditions," but no accompanying letter.
I thank you Love, for the book, and for the "Balsam of wild
cherry," which came with it, but oh how delighted I would have been
by one of your sweet love-letters. Isabella and I went over this evening,
to see sister Eliza, and as Houston was absent for the night, on some
of your business, Mr Moore returned with us. As we passed Mr
Palmer's, he came out, and informed us that a gentleman was spending
the night at his house, on his way to Cincinnati Ohio, who was a
resident of that city. I hastened home, for the purpose of beginning a
letter to you, before night, but found it impossible to do so, and I am
now writing to you at a late hour of the night, but am cheered by the
soft breathings of our sleeping boy. He is truly a comfort to me, but
my concern for his future well-fare is indescribable. I fear my affections
are too much engrossed by earthly ties. Should the Lord call me
55: MARCH 6, 1846-AUGUST 10, 1846
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Roberts, Madge Thornall. The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston, Volume 2: 1846-1848, book, 1998; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9714/m1/65/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.