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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 letter from John K. Ferguson to Stephen F. Austin, September 2, 1829] (open access)

[Transcript of letter from John K. Ferguson to Stephen F. Austin, September 2, 1829]

Copy of transcript for a letter from John K. Ferguson to Stephen F. Austin introducing Samuel McMaster to Austin.
Date: September 2, 1829
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of letter from James F. Perry to Stephen F. Austin, August 2, 1829] (open access)

[Transcript of letter from James F. Perry to Stephen F. Austin, August 2, 1829]

Copy of transcript for a letter from James F. Perry to Stephen F. Austin discussing the possibility of selling family property in Virginia.
Date: August 2, 1829
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of Letters Concerning a Mine, July 2, 1829] (open access)

[Transcript of Letters Concerning a Mine, July 2, 1829]

Copy of transcript for several letters from Jacob and John Austin to the Mayor of Austin, Texas, concerning the boundaries of a silver and lead mine.
Date: July 2, 1829
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of letter from José Antonio Navarro to Stephen F. Austin, April 2, 1829] (open access)

[Transcript of letter from José Antonio Navarro to Stephen F. Austin, April 2, 1829]

Copy of transcript for a letter from José Antonio Navarro to Stephen F. Austin.
Date: April 2, 1829
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of letters from Erasmo Seguin and F. Salgado to Stephen F. Austin, April 2, 1829] (open access)

[Transcript of letters from Erasmo Seguin and F. Salgado to Stephen F. Austin, April 2, 1829]

Copy of transcript for letters from Erasmo Seguin and F. Salgado to Stephen F. Austin.
Date: April 2, 1829
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History