Auction Date:2010 May 20 @ 05:00 (UTC-7 : PDT/MST)
Location:11901 Santa Monica Blvd. #555, Los Angeles, California, 90025, United States
Texas soldier autograph letter written and signed by Allen Lavison just days before the Battle of San Jacinto. Datelined ''Headquarters Brassos opisite Groses [Grose's plantation on the Brazos River]'' 6-9 April 1836, Lavison writes to his wife Susanna. Letter reads in part: ''When I take up my pen to advise you I hardly know what I would say. Or where to direct it when find you having in my last letter requested you to leve a country in I am oblige to fight for. I would now give allmost the world if I had it could I see you once more or know where you are gone -- please let me know where you will stop and if I should out live the war I will see you as soon as I can go either by land or sea -- and if you should never see me it will be because I am dead and if so, do not fail to contend for my lands in Texas which will be a fortune to you some day for Texas will be free and you are more intitled to it and more wellcome than any other on this globe -- Keep Mrs. Bond if applicable with you and be as sisters as her husband an me are as Brothers in the glorious cause of liberty / excuse the shortness of this letter for my trembling hand and scarcity of time / I am well in health and you are most that troubles my mind but keep good heart Dear Lady, I think our great god is on our side -- write me to headquarters of the Texian army / your ever loveing and afectionit Husband / Allen Lavison / Aprile the 9th / haveing heard of your leaving for New Orleans I add this little and is glad you are once more in a hospitable land / the inemy is now at San Felipe be with some over our members there is battle contemplated soon we trust god and our valour for victory I will write you every opportunity please do me the same nothing will ever do me so much good as to hear from you at all times -- the deeds and Bonds for my lands you have some with you and the ballance you will find in the office of Brazaria but I hope to be with you and attend to it myself / still direct your letters to headquarters of the Texian army / dont fail to write every opportunity / I am in good health and spirits all Trouble me is you my dear / Allen Lavison / Mrs. Susanna Lavison'' Accompanied by a second letter from J.H. Hood in Huntsville, Alabama, 13 May 1836, who erroneously reports that Santa Anna has been executed by Houston's forces. Soldier letter measures 7.25'' x 12.25''. Written in very dark black fountain pen with almost no fading. Original ink smudges, some light foxing and soiling; overall very good condition.
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11901 Santa Monica Blvd. #555, Los Angeles, California, 90025, United States
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