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 2010

Wall, Bernhardt
Following General Sam Houston, 1793-1863
Limerock, Conn.: B. Wall, 1935
"Texas Centennial Edition"
Copy #4 of an edition of 100

Call Number: NE 2012 .W36 H687 1935

A copy of one of Wall's most important Texana works, this fully-etched book is a masterpiece of 20th century etching.  This copy is inscribed to Esse Forrester O'Brien, Texas author, and has a letter to Ms. O'Brien from Wall on stationary from the Roosevelt Hotel in Waco, Texas.

April 2009

Mexico (State). Governor (1837: Gonzaga Vieyra)
El C. Luis Gonzaga Vieyra, coronel retirado y gobernador del departamento de Mexico . . .
Mexico: 1837

Call Number: F 390 .M32 1837 May 20/May 26
Shelved in Object Files, Rare Book & Texana Collections.

Broadside issued by the Governor of the state of Mexico promulgating the Presidential decree about dealing with claims by U.S. Citizens against Mexico, and the closing of customs entry points to U.S. Exports.

December 2008

Coahuila and Texas (Mexico)

El Gobernador del Estado de Coahuila y Tejas, 'a todos sus hatitantes sabed:...'
Monclava, Mexico: 1834

Call Number: F 390 .M32 1834 April 19
Shelved in Small Map Case, Rare Book Room.

Decree of the Congreso Constitucional authorizing Governor Vidaurri y Villasenor to distribute 400 sitios of vacant land to pay soldiers for the protection of citizens from hostile Indians.  Under this decree, Williams, Peebles, and F.W. Johnson obtained their first four hundred league grant in Texas.

Mexico. President (1836-1837: Corro)

El Territorio Mexicano se divide en tantos Departamentos cuantos eran los Estados, con las variaciones siguientes.
Mexico City: Primera Secretaria de Estado, Departamento del Exterior, 1836.

Call Number: F 390 .M32 1836 December 30
Shelved in Small Map Case, Rare Book Room.

President Corro promulgates the Congressional decree dividing the country into as many departments as there were states before the Texas War.  Also notes that when "order is re-established in the department of Texas" the authorities will select a capital and authorize organizational provisions.

October 2008

Poska, Valentine J.

J. Frank Dobie: biography
San Diego, Calif.: Ash Ranch Press, 1989

Call Number: Z 232 .A75 J39 1989 (c.1 - Regular; c.2 - Deluxe)
Shelved in Miniature Books Collection, Rare Book Room.

Valentine J. Poska, author, publisher, and bibliographer, wrote this biography on Texan J. Frank Dobie for the Ash Ranch Press.  When published, it was produced in two versions - a "regular" edition of 100 copies, and a specially bound edition of 26 lettered copies.  Through the generosity of the Porter Evans fund, the Libraries have managed to acquire copy number 94 of the regular edition and copy "A" of the deluxe edition.

Mexico. Vice President (1833 Dec. 16-Apr. 24 1834: Gomez Farias)

El Exmo. Sr. Vice-Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos se ha servido dirigireme el decreto que sigue . . .

Mexico: s.n., 1834.

Call Number: F 390 .M32 1834 February 4
Housed in Object Files, Rare Book & Texana Collections.

Decree of Vice President Valentin Gomez Farias, acting as president, reciting the desire of the government to aid citizens who have suffered from the disordered state of the country, and offering to assist them to take up government lands in the state of Coahuila and Texas.

Mexico. Secretaria de Hacienda

Zacatecas: Govierno de Zacatecas, 1836.

Call Number: F 390 .M32 1836 June 17/June 26

Housed in Small Map Case, Rare Book Room.

Edition published in the state of Zacatecas of a decree by the Secretary of the Treasury ordering a compulsory loan demanded of all Mexicans to fill the shortfall in the nation's income, chiefly due to the attempt to suppress the Texas revolt.

Mexico.

Puebla: Imprenta del Gobierno, 1837.

Call Number: F 390 .M32 1837 April 5/July 20

Housed in Small Map Case, Rare Book Room.

Edition published in the state of Puebla of a decree by the Minister of the Interior abolishing slavery in the republic, and providing for compensation to slave owners except Texans who had taken part in the revolution.

Kent, Carol

Alien encounter: an historic account.
Austin, Tex.: Kent Press, 1999.

Call Number: Z 232 .K468 A454 1999.  Shelved in Miniature Books Collection.

The first book printed by Genevieve Kent, a member of the Kent family of Texas printers.    The family has issued works under a number of imprints, and have worked on volumes for other publishers as well, including Stanley Marcus' Somesuch Press. 

Ortiz, Tadeo

Mexico considerado como nacion independiente y libre, o sean algunas indicaciones sobre los deberes mas esenciales de los mexicanos.

Burdeos: Carlos Lawalle Sobrino, 1832.

Call Number: F 1208 .O77 1832  Shelved in Texana Collection.

A "classic roadmap" for the economic development of Mexico, with recommendations that include colonization of Texas.  This copy is from the collection of Eugene Boban, official archaeologist of the court of Emperor of Mexico Maximilian I.

   
       

September 2008

Mexico (Empire: Iturbide)

Lista de los Senores diputados designados por S.M.I. para que compongan la Junta que ha de substituir al extinguido Congreso, conforme al Decreto Imperial de 31 del ultimo Octubre....
[Mexico]: Imprenta Imperial, 1822.

Call Number: F 390 .M32 1822 Nov 1.  Shelved in Small Map Case, Rare Book Room.

List of delegates designated by His Imperial Majesty Emperor Iturbide of Mexico to form a Junta, replacing the congress dissolved by decree on October 31, 1822.    Includes listing of delegates from the provinces of Mexico, including Nuevo Mexico, Texas, Antiqua California and Nueva California.


       
       
Mexico
El Exmo. Sr. Presidente interino de la Republica Mexicana, se ha servido dirigirme el decreto que sigue: "El Presidente interno de la Republica Mexicana, a todos los que las presentes vieren..."
[Mexico]: Departamento del Exterior, 1836.

Call Number: F 390 .M32 1828 Jan 12/1836 Jun 18.  Shelved in Small Map Case, Rare Book Room.

Spanish and English printing of an addenda to the treaty to determine the border between the United States of America and Mexico, which had been promulgated in 1828, but not settled as of 1836, when Texas declared itself independent.


 

July 2008

New Spain. Viceroy (1590-1595: Velasco II)
[Land Grant] : [Mexico City], 1959 July.

Grant for three caballerias [ca. 350 acres] of land in "el monte del pueblo de Quaguacan [i.e. Cuahuacan, now Santa Maria Magdelena Cahuacan], terminos de Tlalnepantla" to Maria Verdugo.  Signed by Luis de Velasco, Marques de Salinas, 8th Viceroy of New Spain.

Call Number:  F1231 .A11590 1590
Shelved in Small Map Case, Rare Book Room.
       

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.)

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.

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.