Parket to Robinson, December 17, 1835, archives of Texas, D, file 14, No. 1408; Travis to Smith, January 28, 1836, D, file 18, No. 1759 (A part of this letter may be found in Brown's A History of Texas, I 532); same to same, February 12, 1836, D, file 18, No. 1761; Fannin to Robinson, February 10, 1836; Roberts to Burnet, April 8, 1836, D, file 15, No. 1470. Of the same tenor are the letters of John Sowers Brooks, in the Quarterly, IX 178, 181, 191, 194-95. On March 9 he wrote to a friend in New York, “And with this handful of 6 or 700 Volunteers we are left by the generous Texians to roll back the tide of invasion from their soil.”
