The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 50, July 1946 - April, 1947 Page: 224
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Journal historique (Paris, 1713) ; and that volume of Dernieres
decouvertes dans l'Amerique Septentrionale de M. de La Salle
which was brought out in 1697 under the name of LaSalle's
lieutenant, Tonty, but was disowned by him. For Spanish Texas
in the eighteenth century, six important works were displayed,
including the Diario y Derrotero (1736) of Pedro de Rivera y
Villal6n and the two principal publications of Fray Isidro de
Espinosa. Two serious lacunae were apparent in the exhibition.
Although the basic Derrotero de la Expedicion en la Provincia
de los Texas 'of Juan de la Pefia, printed at Mexico in 1722,
exists in seven public or private collections in America, the
Library was compelled to put on display a photostat of the
British Museum copy. The Library is also without that earliest
printing of the Reglamento para todos los Presidios, done in
Mexico in 1729, which is one of the collector's prizes. The
earliest Library of Congress edition, which was exhibited, is
the Reglamento e Instruccion para los Presidios of 1772.
Coming now to the period of the American settlement of
Texas, the first of four items in the Library of Congress exhibit
may be pointed to with some pride. When the New York Public
Library put together, in the summer of 1936, an exhibition to
celebrate the centenary of Texan independence, for which it
was able to draw upon the magnificent Texana collection of
Thomas W. Streeter, it described its copy of Richard Raynal
Keene's Memoria, addressed to King Ferdinand VII and printed
at Madrid on the first day of 1815, as the only one known. The
Library of Congress was able to show another specimen of this
earliest of printed schemes for introducing colonists from the
United States. Also displayed was Hartmann and Millard's
Le Texas, ou notice historique sur le Champ d'Asile, one of the
several publications brought out at Paris in 1819 describing the
abortive colony of Napoleonic exiles; Mary Austin Holley's
Texas: Observations, Historical, Geographical and Descriptive
(Baltimore, 1833), wherein Stephen F. Austin's cousin achieved
a triple scoop by publishing the first book written in English on
Texas history, travel, and promotion that was not a mere
republication of official documents; and Charles Sealfield's
Tokeah, or the White Rose (Philadelphia, 1829), one of
the earliest Texas novels and one which had been inspired by an
actual tour of the country. The new acquisition, the Constitu-
tion of Coahuila and Texas printed at Natchitoches in 1827, was
exhibited, but it is only one of a group of publications, none of224
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