Ashbel Smith to Anson Jones, July 3, 1843

Summary: Smith told Jones he was going to Paris unless he thought support for emancipation in Texas among the English population got too strong.

LEGATION OF TEXAS, LONDON

42 St. James's Place, July 3, 1843

Hon. ANSON JONES

Secy of State

SIR,

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I shall proceed to Paris to meet Col Daingerfield in about a week from this date, unless the movements being made here for the abolition of slavery in Texas should in my opinion render it proper for me to prolong my stay in London.

With great respect

Your most obedient servant

ASHBEL SMITH.

Source Copy Consulted: Ashbel Smith to Anson Jones, July 3, 1843, George Garrison, ed., Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas, Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1908, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1911), 3 vols., 3: 1108