The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 43, July 1939 - April, 1940 Page: 516
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missed it and had to travel up the river twenty miles to cross
at Roma. Was Haley mad!
And some folks think that historical investigation is dull
business!
Laura Lettie Krey, author of -And Tell of Time, is at Chapel
Hill, North Carolina, working in the library of the University
of North Carolina on another Texas novel. Writing of the
Quarterly, she says: "May I say . . . I feel that The Texas
Historical Quarterly would be a better name . . . and may I
also say that I have literally been buried in every bound volume
for about a year and a half. . . . I find them so exciting and
interesting that I have difficulty in not filling my book with
straight history. Did you ever happen to notice in the addresses
of Henry Smith a line or two addressed, I think, to Travis,
saying 'the eyes of Texas are upon you?' I ran across it last
week and it tickled me very much. I believe I am going to
write the chapter on the Declaration of Independence on March 2
this year. Wouldn't that be a coincidence ?"
James Taylor, who teaches European history, reports that he
inquired of a class in that subject-made up of Texans-why they
had a holiday on March 2. Only half the class knew.
Dr. S. W. Geiser, now studying early Texas naturalists, sends
a card from Washington containing valuable information about
the beginnings of the Texas State Historical Association. His
quotation is from the San Antonio Ledger of May 4, 1854,
owned by Bourke and West.
Texas should have a State Historical Society. Older States
have them, but they were generally never thought of until it
was too late to preserve from obscurity and uncertainty, early
historical incidents and records. In the infancy of a State,
such a thing, though of invaluable importance, is too often
overlooked. There are now living in Texas, [people] who
have lived here from the early settlement of the country.
They are rapidly passing away and soon all will be gone, and
with them will pass away all certain and creditable accounts516
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