Burnet to Treat, August 19, 1839, Tex. Dipl. Corr., II, 476-477. Smith, The Annexation of Texas, 37, says, “in the course of 1840 and 1841 a secret agent and two plenipotentiaries were sent to that country [Mexico].” Bee and Treat were sent in 1839. The present writer was in error when he stated in a recent article that Treat arrived in Mexico in 1840; see The Quarterly, XIV, 290.
