PorterEvansPurchases

Purchases funded by the Porter-Evans Texana Collection Fund

The Porter-Evans Texana Collection Fund was begun with a generous gift by Miss Louise Evans in honor of long-time friend Hinton Porter and her brother G.L. "Jake" Evans.  The purpose of the fund is to provide money to purchase rare, unusual, and important materials related to Texas.

February 2008

Wood, George A. (Governor of Texas) [Land Grant] Austin, Tex.: State of Texas, 1848. Original land grant, printed on vellum and completed by hand, for 320 acres of land in the Nacogdoches District of Van Zandt County.  Issued to William Phillips, and signed by Commissioner of the General Land Office George W. Smyth and Governor George T. Wood. Call Number: F390 .A148 1848 Shelved in Small Map Case, Rare Book Room.

January 2008

	Mexico. Legación (U.S.) Correspondencia que ha mediado entre la Legación extraordinaria de México y el Departamento de estado de los Estados-Unidos, sobre el paso del Sabina por las tropas que mandaba el general Gaines. Mexico: Reimpreso por Jose M. F. de Lara, 1837. 2nd (expanded) edition of the Gorostiza Pamphlet.  The first edition was printed in Spanish in Philadelphia in 1836.  Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza, Mexican Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, published the pamphlet to bring to public attention the actions of members of the US Government, and to show the full extent of correspondence that had been only partially published.  Gorostiza ended his mission and returned to Mexico in protest, where this edition was published with added documents.  In 1838, the United States published another edition of the pamphlet, in Spanish and English, using the text of the 1st edition (House of Representatives Executive Document 190, 25th Congress, 2nd Session, 1838). The pamphlet, published to show the illegality of actions by the US Government in sending troops into the territory that would become Texas, caused a major breech in US-Mexican diplomatic relations.  Call Number: F 390 .M56 1837.
	Gilliam, Albert M. Travels in Mexico, during the years 1843 and 44; including a description of California, the principal cities and mining districts of that republic; the Oregon territory, etc. Aberdeen: George Clark and Son; Ipswich: J.M. Burton, 1847. "A new and complete edition" of the description written by the US Consul to California of his travels throughout Mexico and up the west coast.    Although Consul Gilliam apparently never arrived in San Francisco to take up his post, his descriptions of Mexico and his comments on the Texas Revolution are significant. Call Number: F1213 .G485 1847

December 2007

Wall, Bernhardt, 1872-1956 The Capitols of the Southern States 1861-1865 Sierra Madre, Calif: Bernhardt Wall, 1949. Libraries' copy is the artists' own proof set created the year before the publication of the regular copy.  Each leaf is signed by Wall.  From the collection of Wall collector and bibliographer Msgr. Francis J. Weber. Call Number: NE2012.W36 C375 1949. Shelved in Texana General Collection.

September 2007

	Nichols, Edwin Seymour, 1863- Ed Nichols rode a horse.  As told to Ruby Nichols Cutbirth. Austin, Tex.: Texas Folklore Society; University Press in Dallas, 1943. Libraries' copy signed by Ed Nichols and his daughter Ruby Nichols Cutbirth.  Retains original dustjacket. Call Number: F 391 .N5 1943. Shelved in Texas County Histories Collection.
	Goodwyn, Frank, 1911-2001 Life on the King Ranch. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1951. Call Number: F 392 .K47 G66 1951 Shelved in Texas County Histories Collection.
	Baylor, George Wythe, 1832-1916 Into the far, wild country: true tales of the old Southwest. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1996. Call Number: F 391 .B292 A3 1996 c.2 Shelved in Texana General Collection.