The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945 Page: 416
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
W. E. Wrather, now Director of the United States Geological
Survey and formerly president of the Association, has written
concerning some original documents relating to the discovery
in the early nineteenth century of meteoric iron in northeast
Texas.
It may well be that this material has been adequately studied although
as the information comes to me this is probably not the case. I pass it on
to you for what it may be worth. A carefully recorded diary through north-
ern Texas as early as July, 1803, should be of very considerable interest
if there is anything new about it.
Dr. Wrather, from his Washington post, also recalls Texas
and the membership of the Association.
I greatly miss my old associations with the Historical Association. In
fact, I miss all my contacts with old friends in Texas and sincerely wish I
might look forward to a return to the old haunts. The war has done
strange things to many of us, not the least to me.
The San Jacinto Museum of History Association continues
to make progress according to a report of Dorothy W. Estes,
acting director. Lt. (j.g.) Ike Moore, director on leave, has
finished training at Harvard and is soon to go on active duty.
Ensign Joe B. Frantz, archivist on leave, is serving on the
U.S.S. Wilkes, F.P.O., San Francisco, California. Recent acqui-
sitions to the museum include a loan from Miss Laura Under-
wood of East Columbia, Texas, of the business records of the
mercantile house established at Marion in 1836 by Ammon
Underwood. Also Mr. Hugh Potter of Houston has presented a
water color of the brig Galveston. This was the 18-gun Archer
which came to the Texas Navy in April, 1840.
The San Marcos State College Museum of History and Art
reports through Dudley R. Dobie, curator, the following recent
acquisitions:
SHETTLES COLLECTION: Several scrapbooks and journals kept by
Rev. and Mrs. E. L. Shettles. The scrapbooks are devoted to Texas-re-
volving about political campaigns, prohibition, articles by the Rev. Mr.
Shettles. The journals are personal observations, etc.
WORLD WAR I COLLECTION: Posters, magazines, albums, post cards,
bulletins, aerial photographs, etc.
NEWSPAPER COLLECTION: The newspapers are mostly those pub-416
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945, periodical, 1945; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146055/m1/460/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.