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292 Southwestern Historical Quarterly
edited by me, published by The Humanities Research Center, Uni-
versity of Texas, 1967, and which said review appears in Vol. LXXI,
No. 4, April, 1968, The Texas State Historical Association, South-
western Historical Quarterly.
I have no quarrel with Dr. Muir's general dissatisfaction with the
diary. The mistakes that he has pointed out in the work should be
corrected, or rather not carried on, as incorrect references. Let me say
that others have noticed mistakes in the diary and have pointed them
out with the same gentle subtleness as employed by Dr. Muir.
Dr. Muir has made statements that he can no more sustain than I
can the incorrect spelling of the name Louis J. Wilson (we spelled it
three times as Louis and twice as Lewis) . I quote the following from
Dr. Muir's review:
He [the author] failed, however, to use the county archives of Harris
County and newspapers contemporary with the diaries. He also failed
to use the Holley letters in the Archives, University of Texas Library,
Mattie Austin Hatcher's Letters of an Early American Traveller, and
Rebecca Smith Lee's Mary Austin Holley as sources for his annotations.
These failures are immediately apparent in that his book alludes not
once (except as an author) to George Lewis Hammeken, who is men-
tioned a number of times in Mrs. Holley's letters and in pertinent pas-
sages from Hatcher and Lee.
It should have been obvious to anyone reading the diary that I
could not have done the work had I not had available the works of
Rebecca Smith Lee and Mattie Austin Hatcher.
In the introduction I say the following:
Though this is the first publication of the diary of Mary Austin Holley,
it will be evident that we are not encountering a writer on whom there
is a dearth of information. The life of Mary Austin Holley has been
chronicled by two historians: Mattie Austin Hatcher wrote an excellent
introduction, "Mary Austin Holley, Her Life and Her Works, 1784-1846,"
to accompany the republication of Mrs. Holley's letters; and more re-
cently, Rebecca Smith Lee has written a comprehensive biography, Mary
Austin Holley.
Also, footnote references to Rebecca Smith Lee's Mary Austin Hol-
ley are given on lo pages, and to Mattie Austin Hatcher's Letters of
an Early American Traveller: Mary Austin Holley, Her Life and Her
Works, 1784-1846 on pages 87 and 92. Contemporary newspapers and
publications citations are given on to pages. A more careful reading
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