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(j) Letter dated July 6, 1842, Department of State; Washington [Texas] 3pp. 6 x 8 From: Anson JONES , Secretary of State for Texas To: : Isaac VAN ZANDT, Charge D'Affaires, Texas to the United States Re: Jones tells Van Zandt to put...
SHH II:A:2:h
(h) Private letter dated July 6, 1843, Galveston, 3pp. 7 1/2 x 9 From: Charles ELLIOTT (1801-1875) British knight, admiral, and Charge D'Affaires in Texas, Aug. 6, 1842-1845. (Reassigned there from China after having precipitated the...
SHH II:A:3:c
July 17th, 1870 Letter from Margaret Thornton to a Shaw cousin describing the type of person who should immigrate to Texas, someone with a trade not a factory worker. 2pp. 8 x 10.
THORNTON PAPERS This collection is comprised of 13...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
SHH VII:38
Semanario Politico Del Gobierno De Nuevo Leon, Mier, July 14, 1842. Volume 3 No. 80 of this official Mexican newspaper, widely distributed in the Republic of Texas. Much of the issue...
Tornel, Jose Maria y Mendivil; Generals; Mexico; Texas
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
SHH VII:47
THE TORNEL PAPERS. A collection of documents from the archive of General Jose Maria Tornel, Mexican Minister of War during the Texas Revolution, TEXT IN SPANISH, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:11
MOORE, ROBERT, DS, (Galveston) July 3, 1846. Promissory note for $400 "for value received which may be discharged in a good likely young black woman not more than twenty...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:19
LONG, WILLIAM, printed and manuscript document signed, Galveston, July 9, 1860.Slave sale of "Betsy aged about 28 years and her four children." 4 pp. 8 1/2 x 12
SHH II:A:1:c
Order #13 to Henderson YOAKUM by order of Col. LINDSAY, from Headquarters Western District of the Cherokee Nation, Wills Valley, dated July 2nd, 1838. 3pp. 8 x 10
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(e) Copy of a "Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation", between the Republic of Texas and the United States of America. Concluded and signed by James Reily , Charge D'Affaires of the Republic of Texas and Daniel Webster, Secretary...
SHH II:C:4
Proclamation "TO THE PEOPLE OF TEXAS" announcing the results ("We have dissolved your connection with the Government known as the United States of America...") of the Secession Convention, Austin, April 6, 1861. An addendum is printed...
SHH II:B:12
[CIVIL WAR] Head Quarters Bates Regiment, Velasco, Texas, July 7th, 1862, Rev. Oscar M. ADDISON has leave of absence for fourteen days, J.E. Love, Adjutant.1 p. 4 1/2 x 8
SHH II:A:1:d
Order from Col. YOAKUM at Camp Molloy, dated July 9, 1838, announcing a resumption of march to Fort Cass, for the purpose of paying off and discharging the troops. 1p. 8x 9 3/4
SHH II:D:14
LOYALTY OATH. To: W. T. ROBINSON, Merchant of Walker County, at Galveston, Texas, July 12, 1865. From: H. (?) BEARD, Captain and Provost Marshal. This post-Civil War document attests that the signatory "will support, protect, and...
This collection contains pieces printed by Samuel Bangs, generally recognized as the first printer in Texas whose work survives. Most of these were assembled by a rare books dealer for James L. Britton, III, who donated them to SHSU.
Thirty documents represents original papers signed by a number of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300"[among the earliest Anglo settlers]. They were assembled by a rare books dealer for James L. Britton, III, who donated them to SHSU.
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
GOBERNACION DEL ESTADO LIBRE DE LAS TAMAULIPAS. Broadside commendation to Felipe de la Garza for his service dated July 19, 1824, in Padilla. 1p. 8 1/2 x 12 1/4 , TEXT IN SPANISH. SHH VII:14
