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[Portrait of the Gardner Southworth Sleeper Home near Hewitt, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a house, a mostly wooden structure, that belonged to the Gardner Southworth Sleeper family. Part of the structure is missing. Handwritten notes on the front and back of the photo provide various pieces of information: "my grandfather Sleeper home on Old Hewitt Road. Part of it still standing 1970. Built in 1879."
Date: July 1972
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Travis County Deed Records: Deed Record 44

Description: Recorded copies of Travis County deeds, conveyances, and other muniments of title affecting ownership to real estate from July 1879 to January 1880, including warranty deeds, gift deeds, partition deeds, guardian deeds, quitclaim deeds, royalty deeds, various types of affidavits, appointments and resignations of trustees, trust indentures, transfers of liens, conveyances of liens, assignments of liens, subordination of liens, various types of partial releases, leases, easements, contracts of saâ€Ĥ more
Date: 1879-07/1880-01
Creator: Travis County (Tex.). Clerk's Office.
Partner: Travis County Clerk’s Office

[Letter from James W. Hunt to Roger A. Burgess]

Description: A two-page photocopy of a letter from James W. Hunt to Professor Roger A. Burgess of Childress, Texas, dated July 22, 1927. The letter provides some information Hunt felt necessary to the completion of a thesis by Burgess, and concerns historical information regarding the plains of Texas and the Estacado.
Date: July 22, 1927
Creator: Hunt, James W.
Partner: McMurry University Library

[Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala Jr. to unknown person, enclosed with letter to W.E. Hutchison, July 1, 1879]

Description: Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala Jr. to unknown person enclosed with with an additional letter to W.E. Hutchison. The letter addressed to Hutchison describes the mis-handling of the affairs over the estate and property of the deceased Lorenzo de Zavala Sr. The additional letter to unknown person describes his own eye-witness account of the events of the Battle of San Jacinto and his personal endeavors afterwards. Merida, Yucatan, July 1, 1879.
Date: July 1, 1879
Creator: de Zavala, Lorenzo, Jr.
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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