Stirpes, Volume 9, Number 4, December 1969 Page: 123
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STIRPES
TEXAS STATE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY
VOLUME IX DECEMBER, 1969 NU 4
THE MIRABiAU BUOVAPARTE LAMAR PAPERS*
By Dr. Dorman H. Winfrey,
Texas State Library Director and Librarian
The Nirabeau B. Lamar Papers were acquired by the Texas State
Library sixty years ago. The $10,000 appropriation to purchase the
papers from Lamar's daughter was approved by the governor, Thomas
N. Campbell, in the same month-..arch, 1909--that he signed the law
establishing the Texas Library and Historical Commission and setting
up the Texas State Library as a separate agency.
Through the years these papers have been a rich source of primary
source material for historians. Indexes have been of great
help to genealogists. Published by the Texas State Library in six
volumes between 1921 and 1927, the published papers were long outof-print
before they were reissued by the Pemberton Press in Austin
in 196.5
Laar's role in Texas history is crucial to any understanding
of the course adopted by the little Republic following the defeat
of the Mexican army at San Jacinto. His contributions were not the
momentary products of political ambition but the sincere efforts
of lifelong education. Though he won his greatest fame in the
political arena, it was nt in his public acoomplishments that he
made his greatest contribution to Texas, but in his advocacy to the
new nation of the high ideals to which it could aspire beyond the
narrow interests of the moment. Lamar dreamed of a Texas that
embodied his ideals, and in holding his dream before the eyes of
the Texas population, he served his country best. Whether as
soldier1 secretary of war, legislator, or president, Lamar was
first of all the voice of creative vision, exhorting Texas to
fulfill the promise of the victory at San Jacinto.
ay of Laar's conteporaries considered him unsuited temperamentally
for public life. Anson Jones said of him that "Texas
is too small for a mn of such wild, visionary, vaulting ambition.'
Address given November 28, 1969, to Texas State Genealogical
Society Conference on Personal and Historical Papers, St. Anthony
Hotel,. San Antonio, Texas.
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