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daughter, Mildred, gather their possessions (tea service and other
items). I followed them home to help unload their car, and a friendship
began that day with Mrs. Webb and Mildred; it continues today be-
tween Mildred and my family.
I had further occasion to visit the Webb home, for the Webbs had
history students over when visitors such as Arnold Toynbee came to
Austin. Fortunately, Mildred Webb Bugg has seen to it that the Webb
home at 602 West 9th Street has fared better than the Dobie place at
702 Park Place (now 702 East 26th Street). Mildred maintains her resi-
dence at the Webb home, and through her efforts a historical medal-
lion has been erected on the property. The house, built in 1876, has
been identified with several prominent Texas historians. Dr. and Mrs.
Rupert N. Richardson lived there during summers when Dr. Webb
taught outside Texas. J. Evetts, and Nita S. Haley rented an apartment
in the house while Evetts worked for the University of Texas, and
H. Bailey Carroll and Mary Joe Durning were married there in June
of 1935.
Another Webb book has special meaning for the Winfreys. I had met
Mrs. Terrell Maverick when I was University archivist. After she mar-
ried Webb, I was in San Antonio with Miss Friend for a meeting at the
Menger Hotel when, as I recall, Webb spoke to the San Antonio His-
torical Association. He invited Miss Friend and me to come up to their
room and look at the galleys they were reading on Washington Wife.
Photographs, scattered throughout the room, were being selected for
illustrations in the book.
When Washington Wife came out in the spring of 1963, I bought a
copy as a birthday gift for my wife, Ruth Carolyn. I got the Webbs to
autograph the book with the date March 16, which was Ruth Carolyn's
birthday. Dr. Webb was killed on March 8. It was a sad occasion when I
gave the book to my wife. My secretary later suggested that an explana-
tion about the circumstances of the date should be pasted in the book in
the event someone might think the March 16 date with signatures was a
forgery.
Although for a good many years I ran errands for Webb and was
available for any assignment (get a book from the Co-op for an overdue
book review when he lost or misplaced the original book, check roll for
a large lecture section), I never recall going into Garrison Hall 102 just
to sit and talk. I did get through that office door, however, with my
early interest in the Big Bend National Park. One of my favorite Webb
writings is "The Big Bend of Texas," published in the Panhandle-Plains
Historical Review in 1937. For a good many years I went to the Big Bend
after summer school and always mailed him a picture postcard. With
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