The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 60, July 1956 - April, 1957 Page: 166
616 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 23 cm.View a full description of this periodical.
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Expedition of 1841 as evidenced by items in his collection ac-
quired by the University of Texas.
The price of $1,200 unquestionably commands attention. Per-
haps there is not a Texas state institution of higher learning
which can afford such an expenditure from its normal library
purchase funds. Nevertheless the item should be brought to
Texas. Here is an opportunity for some Texas individual or in-
stitution to light a real candle.
Margie E. Neal of Carthage has presented to the Association
a copy of Charles D. Smith's A Family Biography, the Story of
Edward Willis and Jonnie Robertson Smith and Their Ten
Children. The book was written for members of the Smith fam-
ily and will of necessity have only a limited distribution. Mrs.
Neal has written the following concerning the history:
[While this book] is strictly a private publication intended only
for distribution in the family, it might well with profit be placed in
every high school, college and university library in Texas as a valuable
piece of Texana. For this family, with its numerous members, as fac-
tually portrayed and documented by the author, contributed substan-
tially and permanently to the state's development in all departments,
especially in lending to Smith County that position of cultural and
political leadership in the state maintained for many years in the
latter part of the preceding and the early part of this century. It is
families such as this that have made the state what it is and given it
its deserved high place in the nation.
The Association copy has been placed in the Tzz section of
the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center.
The office has record that a valued member of the Association
wishes to acquire the following volumes of the Quarterly: 1, 3,
18, 22, 24, 25, 32, and 34, in order to complete his set. Persons
who have these numbers in good condition and wish to dispose
of them are requested to write to the office.
Fred T Bennett, engineer for information and statistics in
the Texas Highway Department, reports that the agency has 35
millimeter slides relative to the native flora, historic and scenic166
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 60, July 1956 - April, 1957, periodical, 1957; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101163/m1/187/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.