The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 43, July 1939 - April, 1940 Page: 514
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
expense in providing quarters which they gladly would have
provided earlier had the request been made.
I quote from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "The second
largest collection of Texiana in existence, 11,000 bound volumes,
housed on Baylor University's campus, has been transferred to
new and beautiful surroundings in Pat Neff Hall. The accumu-
lation of articles dealing with Texas history is valued at a half
million dollars by . .. . Guy B. Harrison, Jr., authority on
Texas history. . . . The collection was begun by Dr. K. H.
Aynesworth, Waco, who gave it to Baylor in 1923."
Eleanor Haywood Benners, 336 North Lancaster Avenue, Dallas,
desires to locate Texas prints. "Our plan," she writes, "is to
cooperate with the Dallas Historical Society by securing a loan
exhibit of prints, old lithographs and engravings of early Texas
life, its towns and heroes. We hope to stimulate general interest
in searching out what is to be had, to learn just what has been
done and where these bits of Texas' record are. . . . As chairman
of the committee, I should be very grateful to have any infor-
mation concerning such materials sent to me."
The tenth anniversary of the Starr County Student Loan Fund
was celebrated with a program at Rio Grande City on February
25. The sponsor was Mrs. Florence J. Scott, county superin-
tendent, and the principal speaker was Harbert Davenport. His
subject was "The Importance of the Escandon Colonists in Texas'
Economic Life." Mr. Davenport writes: "The purpose of my
talk . . . was to attempt to interest the present and prospective
students in the study of the everyday life of Escandon's people,
especially for the period 1767-1823, during which they established
the open range livestock industry, which was afterward trans-
planted to the Great Plains, and of which period comparatively
little is known."
On this occasion Mrs. Anna M. Kelsey Bass contributed $1000
to the student loan fund in honor of her foster-parents, John Peter514
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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/m1/550/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.