43Washington to Baird, July 4, 1849, in Ibid.
In reporting this answer
to Miller, Baird says, "I felicitate myself that I am advanced in the
Colonel's estimation since my first communication, from an Esquire to a
Judge, and from that you may form perhaps a correct estimate of the
rise of Texas stock during the winter." Baird to Miller, September 21,
1849, in Ibid.
