New London Ralls County Mo March 9th 1826

Dear Sir

Permit me to Introduce to your attention Col Elijah Stapp and Mr William Duncan; who come to Texas for the purpose of selecting lands for a number of families; who intend to megrate from this County to that Country, they are particularly bound for the Guadalupe or San Marco, as their intention is Mills Cotton Gins etc—

I did not pass by the way of Mine a Burton on my return home— but I sent your letters to Mr E Bates, by your Cousin (Mr Austin) he also told me that Mrs Perry and the rest of your friends in Mo. were well—

Any favors you render the above Gentlemen will be gratefully remembered and acknowledged—

I shall leave Missouri the first of next Month with my family for Texas.—for the news of the day I refur you to Col Stapp.

G. Dewitt.

Col Stephen F Austin