The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 43, July 1939 - April, 1940 Page: 513
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Texas Colection
history as Three-Legged Willie. It was for him that Williamson
County was named. No one has written a definite biography of
R. M. Williamson, one of the colorful characters of the Texas
Revolution. Such a biography should be written. The task is
difficult and must be done by a patient student who is interested
in doing a good piece of work. Newspapers and east Texas court-
houses hold most of the records that have survived. Those inter-
ested in the subject, or having information about it, are invited
to report.
While in Waco, I called on Professor Guy B. Harrison of Baylor
University. The Texas Collection at Baylor is one of the best
in the state, and is without doubt housed in the most attractive
quarters. No book in Baylor's Texas Collection-and that is the
name that the collection bears-is allowed to circulate, but must
be used in the room. As a result of this policy, the books are
in a remarkable state of preservation. Professor Harrison states
that the course in Texas history has a large and growing reg-
istration.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram of March 17 devotes almost one
page of its rotogravure section to "Baylor's Texiana Collection."
There we learn that Baylor's Texas Collection occupies five rooms.
Five rooms ! And the larger collection at the University of Texas
does not have one room. It is housed with the Latin-American
Collection, but does not rank with it in anything but importance
and customers. The Texas Collection at the University has no
telephone listing. Its name appears on no panel or door nor does
it appear on the signs that guide the visitors through the maze of
halls and rotundas of the library building. All are devoted to the
Latin-American companion of the University's great Texas Col-
lection.
A plan is now in the making to give the greatest Texas Col-
lection in the world quarters more in keeping with its impor-
tance, and with its interest to Texas people. Despite the way it
is now hidden, students throng there to pore over the Texas books.
Failure to provide for the Texas Collection doubtless lies at the
door of those most interested in it. Our failure to make insistent
recommendations to the building committee and to the regents is
something we should not overlook in placing responsibility for the
oversight. As a result the regents are now being put to extra513
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 43, July 1939 - April, 1940, periodical, 1940; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101111/m1/549/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.