Posted on Texas Civilian Yahoo list May 2009 by Vicki Betts
Samuel Maverick, writing from Austin, Nov. 10, 1861, p. 32
It has been uncommonly sickly here and around here, and all east & south of here. The mosquitoes are bad in my room & the weather warm. I bathed this morning (for the first time) in the river.
Samuel Maverick, writing from Austin, December 9, 1861, p. 36
The weather at a quarter to 5 is now & has been all day as hot as summer. We had a good rain here on Saturday which is the first since I came to Austin. I am now in a sweat. No stockings on, no cravat, vest open health good--bathing nearly every day before breakfast.
Samuel Maverick, writing from Austin, Nov. 10, 1861, p. 32
It has been uncommonly sickly here and around here, and all east & south of here. The mosquitoes are bad in my room & the weather warm. I bathed this morning (for the first time) in the river.
Samuel Maverick, writing from Austin, December 9, 1861, p. 36
The weather at a quarter to 5 is now & has been all day as hot as summer. We had a good rain here on Saturday which is the first since I came to Austin. I am now in a sweat. No stockings on, no cravat, vest open health good--bathing nearly every day before breakfast.
