The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 55, July 1951 - April, 1952 Page: 494
562 p. : ill. (some col.), ports., maps (some col.) ; 23 cm.View a full description of this periodical.
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Collins award was made for the best Texas book on any subject
written by a Texan or on a Texas subject.
The Texas Institute of Letters is composed of one hundred
members selected by a panel of judges from outstanding Texas
men of letters.
The reading room of the Texas Collection of the Eugene C.
Barker Texas History Center was officially named the James
Stephen Hogg Room on December 8, 1951, the day which had
been proclaimed James Stephen Hogg Day at the University of
Texas.
At a special ceremony in the Barker Center President T. S.
Painter presided and presented the first copy of Addresses and
State Papers of James Stephen Hogg to Miss Ima Hogg, the for-
mer governor's daughter. The book, edited by Robert C. Cotner
of the University's history department, was published by the
University of Texas Press. Governor Allan Shivers, Board of
Regents Chairman Dudley K. Woodward, Jr., and Chancellor
James P. Hart, all members of the Association, spoke at the
ceremony.
A number of Association members were among the twenty-five
persons on the sponsoring committee. This group consisted of
Wales Madden, Jr., of Amarillo; Miss Winnie Allen, Dr. Eugene
C. Barker, Hulon Black, H. Bailey Carroll, Price Daniel, Dr.
Llerena B. Friend, Judge Harry N. Graves, Charles E. Green,
Judge James P. Hart, Judge John E. Hickman, John A. McCurdy;
Dr. T. S. Painter; Allan Shivers; Dr. Robert L. Sutherland, and
Frank H. Wardlaw, all of Austin; Russ Kersten, of Cleburne;
Cecil E. Burney, of Corpus Christi; Dr. Herbert P. Gambrell,
John P. Morgan, Colonel Charles R. Tips, and Judge Dudley
K. Woodward, Jr., of Dallas; Mrs. H. C. Vandervoort, of Fort
Worth; Bishop A. Frank Smith, of Houston; and Byron Skelton,
of Temple.
The Association has received a copy of a i26-year-old letter
which is particularly apropos for the April Quarterly. James H.
Bostick, a member of Sam Houston's army and a half-brother of
Sion Bostick, one of the captors of Antonio L6pez de Santa Anna,494
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