The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 50, July 1946 - April, 1947 Page: 130
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Having done a good deal of research involving the Quarterly lately, I
am moved to compliment the editors on maintaining and even improving
on the fine standards of interest, while retaining the scholarly value, of
the articles. I like particularly to read the notes in the "Texas Collection"
with their incentives to follow one or another of the many possible avenues
of research into Texas history. It has been my good fortune to do some
of my work at Yale University this month, where I found the Quarterly
in all its issues from the very beginning.
In the preparation of his article on Spindletop, Boyce House
interviewed Pattillo Higgins, George M. Craig, J. W. Kinnear,
Scott Myers, and others. In connection with Spindletop see also
"Spindletop, a Texas Titan," in the Quarterly of the American
Petroleum Institute for January, 1945.
J. P. Bridges, the editor of the Luling Signal sixty-three
years ago, published in his paper dated May 17, 1883, the fol-
lowing words of wisdom. The advice is as good today as it was
sixty-three years ago.
Every subscriber to a local paper should file his papers. In after years
the pleasure of perusing the accounts of happenings that in many cases
have passed from memory will be greater than the reading of events fresh
in local history. Old files of local papers possess an inestimable value and
often supply the only means of supplying missing links in the chain of
history. As the publications of forty or fifty years ago are eagerly scanned
by the readers of today in search of scraps of interesting history so also
will the papers of today be of interest a half century hence. Doubtless
our successors at that time will find interest and entertainment in com-
paring the business facilities, modes of living, social events, etc., just as
we do now the sketches of the past.
The Library Chronicle (I, No. 4, Fall, 1945) continues to
present lively Texana from the Archives Collection. On pp.
35-38 is an excerpt from the Telegraph and Texas Register of
March 19, 1845, detailing a mass meeting of the citizens of
Austin County and publishing their resolutions regarding an-
nexation, which were in part as follows:
1st. That the people of Texas with unparalleled unanimity are solicitous
of the annexation of their Republic to the great Union of sovereign and
independent American States.
2nd. That the kindred of blood, descent, identity of religion, language,
laws, customs, political constitution and organization, even of prejudices,130
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