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Embroidered sampler

Plain weave sampler with silk embroidery, floral border, floral motifs, and poem. Text: "In Sharon's lovely Rose, Immortal beauties/ shine; Its sweet refreshing fragrance shows;/ Its origin divine./ Pleasure is a Rose, near which there ever grows/ the thorn of evil; It is wisdom's work so carefully/ to cull the Rose, as to avoid the thorn, and let its/ rich perfume exhale to heaven in grateful adoration/ of Him who gave the Rose to blow./ Mary Louise Brown, November 2nd 1829."
Date: November 2, 1829
Creator: Brown, Mary Louisa
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of essay concerning Mexican independence from the Spanish, [November 1, 1829]] (open access)

[Transcript of essay concerning Mexican independence from the Spanish, [November 1, 1829]]

Copy of transcript for an essay discussing Mexican independence from the Spanish and Mexican attitudes towards the Spanish.
Date: November 1, 1829
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of letter from John Gates to Stephen F. Austin, November 1829] (open access)

[Transcript of letter from John Gates to Stephen F. Austin, November 1829]

Copy of transcript for a letter from John Gates to Stephen F. Austin, requesting that Austin secure lands for Robert Wilson, William P. Harris, and himself.
Date: November 17, 1829
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of letter from Philip Dimmitt to Stephen F. Austin, November 30, 1829] (open access)

[Transcript of letter from Philip Dimmitt to Stephen F. Austin, November 30, 1829]

Copy of transcript for a letter from Philip Dimmitt to Stephen F. Austin concerning the collection of money, and complimenting Austin on the stand he took with the Gefe (chief) defending his colony.
Date: November 30, 1829
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History