(f) Copy of a letter dated January 28, 1843, Legation de France au Texas, Galveston. 2pp. 7 3/4 x 11 1/4 From: Edouard de CRAMAYEL, Charge D'Affaires de France au Texas [ad interim for Dubois de Saligny while he was on leave in France] To: Anson...
Treaties; Republic of Texas; United States; Annexations
SHH II:A:2:m
(m) Copy of "A treaty of Annexation Concluded Between the United States of America and the Republic of Texas, " in nine articles. 9 pp. 11 x 6 "Done at Washington the 12th day of April, Eighteen hundred and forty four." The names of...
Houston, Samuel; Republic of Texas; correspondence
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(a) Letter (copy) - dated June 1, 1838, Houston ,Texas 1p. 8 x 9 1/2 From: SAM HOUSTON, President of the Republic of Texas To: William M. SHEPHERD, Secretary of the [Texas] Navy Re: President Houston upbraids his Secretary of 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...
SHH II:A:3:d
March 1 [1871] Letter from Margaret Thornton to her cousin Emma Shaw relating family news, children in school, Mr. Thornton building a house fifty miles away. She is glad that the "Franco and Prussian war" ended before her cousin...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
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CUEVAS, LUIS G., Comunicaciones Relativas a la Agregacion del Departamento de Tejas a los Estados Unidos del Norte, que ha pasado el Supremo Gobierno de la Republica a la Camara de...
SHH II:A:3:n
September 23, 1861 (Shaw brothers) Letter written by Samuel Shaw to his brother [Harry] from Sandy Creek, Australia. Wages are low and he gets a some work on the reef. He and his brother Edwin are thinking of going to New Zealand to...
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...
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(k) Letter of instructions dated Feb. 25, 1844, Washington [Texas]4pp. 7 x 9 1/2 From : Anson JONES , Secretary of State for Texas To: J. Pinckney HENDERSON and Isaac VAN ZANDT, negotiators for a Treaty of Annexation Re: Empowering of...
SHH II:A:3:o
September 29th, 1885 (Shaw cousins) Letter written by Edwin Wolstenholme to a cousin letting him know of a planned visit in "Melburn" (Melbourne, Australia) before he goes to England for Christmas. 1p. 5 x 8 Section II B...
SHH II:A:2:n
(n) Letter of welcome, Memphis, [Tennessee] June 3, 1845, 3pp. 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 From: Citizens of Memphis (26 names listed, including the Mayor) To: Samuel HOUSTON Re: Houston's projected visit to Tennessee to " take a final farewell of...
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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:A:2:c
(c) Letter dated October 22, 1842, Washington, D. C. 1p. 8x 9 From: Joseph MAPLES, Acting Secretary of State for Texas To: Isaac VAN ZANDT, Charge D'Affaires, Texas to the United States Re: Cover note for a communication from George W....
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
SHH VII:35
(BUSTAMANTE, ANASTASIO) Broadside, Mexico City, June 8, 1838 (refers to the Law of January 27, 1838 authorizing a loan of six million pesos) the entry being from Dublan. The present is a...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
CUEVAS, LUIS G., Mexican Minister of Foreign Relations. Broadside, Mexico, May 17, 1845. Upon learning of the U.S. intention to annex Texas, the Mexican Congress agrees to consider a peace treaty with...
Britton Hispanic Texana Collection, 1546-1877
FERIA DE LINARES. Broadside. Linares, Noviembre 18 de 1877, W. Segovia, Presidente, J. Pas, Secretario. Announcement that the next feria will be held February 17 to March 3, 1878, and--as is...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:3
ILIAMS, BASIL G., ADS, Colorado County, February 9, 1842. Legal document regarding the recovery of two slaves "a negro man named George and a girl named Lucy." 2pp. 8 1/2 x...
Papers Pertaining to the Institution of Slavery, 1809-1866
SHH VI:10
MIDDLETON, JOHN W., DS, Washington County, December 30, 1845. An inventory of the property belonging to the estate of Nathan P. Browning, dec'd. A male slave is...