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Receiver's Memorandum

Description: These two pages are exerpts from a 141-page Receivers Memorandum dated 1887-1888. Pages appear to show payroll advances to O. Henry, here identified by his given name William S. Porter or W.S. Porter, for the months of June 1887 through December 1887. These pages are written in O. Henry's hand, and show his signature several times.
Date: 1887-06/1888-12
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
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Patent 87, Volume 40-A

Description: This document was issued to the Houston & Texas Central Railroad Company as the final instrument in the land grant process, assigning ownership to the railroad company for 640 acres in Tom Green County, section 21, block 20, as described in the patent. O. Henry wrote a fictional account of illegal proceedings concerning a land certificate, Bexar Scrip 2692, in the short story "Bexar Scrip 2692.” This is the patent that ultimately gave land ownership to the railroad via that certificate.
Date: July 18, 1928
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
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Roster of Employees in the General Land Office

Description: Ledger contains lists of General Land Office employees, their job titles, and monthly earnings. Excerpted here are 98 pages covering January 1887-January 1891, which are the dates O. Henry was employed at the land office. W.S. Porter, later known as the writer O. Henry, is listed as draftsman, compiling draftsman and assistant draftsman, earning $100 per month. Porter's name appears on roughly half of the pages.
Date: 1881/1891
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
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Stories of the Old Land Office

Description: Pamphlet printed by the Texas Capital Visitor's Center. Contains a foreward and two O. Henry short stories: "Bexar Scrip 2692" and "Georgia's Ruling." Both stories take place in the old land office building where O. Henry worked as a draftsman, and both are about Texas land grants.
Date: 2001~
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
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In O. Henry's Memory

Description: Photo essay includes images of O.Henry's life in Austin, including the Hill City Quartette, houses O. Henry lived in, sketches by O. Henry and letters by his daughter Margaret Porter.
Date: February 18, 1932
Creator: Houston Chronicle
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Bexar Scrip 2692

Description: Copy of a land Grant file for land issued to the Houston & Texas Central Railway Company in the Bexar Land District. Includes a folder jacket with table of contents and notes about the land grant (filed July 12, 1928); field notes by M.J. Doyle, Deputy Surveyor, Bexar Land District for Section 21 Block 20 (January 13, 1873); the affidavit of ownership of S.N. Allen (July 12, 1928); and a note by Land Commissioner J.H. Walker indicating that the file has no relation to the O. Henry story of th… more
Date: 1873/1928
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
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Houston County

Description: Cadastral map of Houston County, Texas in the Piney Woods region. There are notes in different colored inks. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date: October 1868
Creator: Stremme, C. C. & Lungkwitz, Herman
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Jones County

Description: Cadastral map of Jones County, Texas in the Panhandle Plains region. Some properties are outlined in color and marked, including the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, the Orphan Asylum, and the Blind Asylum lands. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: May 1879
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Lamar County

Description: Cadastral map of Lamar County, Texas in the Prairies and Lakes region. Notes were added in red and black ink. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1873
Creator: Lucas, A. L. & Lungkwitz, Herman
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Marion County

Description: Cadastral map of Marion County, Texas in the Piney Woods region. Notes have been added in black and red ink. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1871
Creator: Lungkwitz, Herman
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Map of Caldwell County

Description: Cadastral map of Caldwell County, Texas in the Prairies and Lakes region. Additional notes have been added in red and black ink. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1871~
Creator: Lungkwitz, Herman
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