The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 44, July 1940 - April, 1941 Page: 365
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Texas Collection
splendid and delightful entertainments of the kind ever
given in this section. A large number of ladies and gen-
tlemen from this city were present, and many also
from Harrisburg and the vicinity. The festivities were
kept up to a late hour, and the guests returned highly
pleased with the cordiality and kindness of the hospi-
table entertainer.
"I turned up river & reached Texana, in good time to see all
of the girls at a great ball on Christmas Eve," writes Samuel A.
Maverick to Mary A. Maverick in a letter dated December 29,
1839, in Maverick Papers, The University of Texas Library
Archives.
Printed on pink paper and addressed to Mrs. P. A. Sublett,
there is an invitation to a Christmas Eve ball in San Augustine
in 1839, in the W. G. Sharp Collection at San Augustine, Texas.
Your company is respectfully solicited to a Cotillion
Party, to be given at the City Hotel on Tuesday Eve-
ning, the 24th day of December, 1839.
W. R. Scurry C. L. Mann
H. S. Truly [ W. B. M'Shar [n?]
R. J. Simms Managers J.B. Johnson
T. P. Payne F. G. Roberts
San Augustine, Dec. 16, 1839
Christmas Eve at Nacogdoches, 1839, is described by Charles
F. Taylor in a letter to James H. Starr, dated December 24, 1839,
in the Starr Papers, The University of Texas Library Archives.
It is now 9 o'clock, P. M., and tomorrow's Christmas.
The way the votaries of that jolly God Bacchus are
'humpin' it is curious. Fiddles groan under a heavy
weight of oppression, and heel-taps suffer to the tune
of "We Won't Go Home 'Till Morning", and now and
then the discharge of firearms at a distance, remind me
that merriment now despotic rules to the utter discom-
forture of dull care, while I, 0 Jeminy! have nothing
stronger wherewith to lash my cold sluggish blood than
Water."365
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