The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945 Page: 420
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
water landing on the Rio Grande, several miles above the bar. Boca del Rio
became Clarksville in tribute to the principal inhabitant of that place.
Clarksville had some importance, 1862-1867, as a complement to the Mex-
ican town of Bagdad across the Rio Grande, as a result of the war born
"cotton boom" of those years. It ended its career, as did Bagdad, October
7-8, 1867, when a first magnitude hurricane swept both cities away.
With best wishes personally, I am,
Sincerely your friend,
HARBERT DAVENPORT
Henceforth no person who essays to write a business history
of any undertaking in Texas should fail to avail himself of
N. S. B. Gras, "Are You Writing a Business History?" in
Bulletin of the Business Historical Society, October, 1944. We
should have a much better state if every business man in Texas
would read the article.
Volume I, No. 1, of the Library Chronicle of the University
of Texas, edited by Joseph Jones, under the direction of Li-
brarian Donald Coney, has made its appearance. The Chronicle
will give information from time to time about the library
holdings --the Texas storehouse of great books - amounting
now to 750,000 volumes. Copies of the Chronicle will be sent
to members of the Association on request to the Librarian.
In the October, 1943, issue of the American Archivist there
appeared a sixteen-page bibliography entitled "Writings on
Archives and Manuscripts, July 1942-June 1943." Many mem-
bers will be interested in knowing that reprints of this bibliog-
raphy may now be obtained for twenty-five cents a copy from
Lester J. Cappon, Secretary of the Society of American Archiv-
ists, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville.
Dr. E. T. Miller of the Department of Economics of The
University of Texas, authority on paper money of the Republic
of Texas, has made the following interesting reply to a letter
making inquiry regarding the value of currency of the Republic:
This currency was not negotiable at face value in any area other than
that of the Republic of Texas. It had a speculative market in New Orleans.
It soon ceased to circulate in Texas as money because of excessive over-420
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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/m1/464/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.