urn:taro:dalpub.08510 William E. Bard Collection Finding Guide to Resource Materials on Mirabeau B. Lamar and Other Texas Topics Finding aid prepared by . Texas/Dallas History & Archives, Dallas Public Library February 21, 2007
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 Bard, William E. William E. Bard Collection 18 boxes MA85-10 The records are in English. Biographical Note

Taken from Bard, W.E. Time in Your Hand c.1977

William E. Bard, one of Texas most distinguished poets, came to Texas as a child in 1895. He grew up in Galveston County and started married life as a Methodist minister. A few moves and six children later, he retired from the ministry and was employed by the Veterans Administration in Dallas

Mr. Bard's first book published in 1933 was A Little Flame Blown. In more recent years he authored Feather in the Sun, This Land This People, Burning Embers, and As a Wild Bird Returning. His poems have appeared in scores of yearbooks, anthologies, and other publications; many winning poetry awards including the Texas Centennial Award and a Presidential Citation from Avalon. He is a charter member of the Texas Institute as wll as past president and life member of the Poetry Society of Texas.

Mr. Bard was Poet Laureate of Texas in 1966, is cited in the International Who's Who in Poetry, and is a recipient of an honorary Doctor of Human Letters from the President of the Philippines. In 1968, Mr. Bard was a delegate to the First World Congress of Poets convening in Manila, Philippine Islands. Mr. Bard died July 23, 1978.

Scope and Contents

In addition to poetry, W.E. Bard was an avid researcher of Texas History with a special interest in Mirabeau B. Lamar. This collection contains spiral notebooks of research notes taken from various resources concerning the life and career of Lamar, his ancestors and descendants and correspondence from Lamar family members. Other topics of Texas interest are also represented. This collection arrangement was created from the original order kept by Mr. Bard, no chronological order exists for correspondence; the folders were topically arranged by Mr. Bard. The notebooks and folder headings were kept as close to the original labels as possible. Staples and other metal attachments were removed where possible and retained when necessary. It is apparent that Mr. Bard intended to write either a biography of Lamar or a book on Texas History; however, no manuscript or published materials other than poetry titles exist in this collection.

 Index Terms

This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Persons: William E. Bard Family Names: Bard Hereford Dryden Places: Dallas (Tex) Subjects: History Mirabeau B. Lamar Occupations: Poet Researcher Titles: William E. Bard Collection Preferred Citation

MA85-10 William E. Bard Collection Texas/Dallas History & Archives Division, Dallas Public Library

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 Detailed Description of the Collection Mirabeau B. Lamar Notes 1 1-12 Notebooks - Lamar Notes Unnumbered and I-XI 2 1-12 Notebooks - Lamar Notes Books XII-XXI 3 1-14 Notebooks - Lamar Notes Notebooks XXII-XXXIII 4 1-13 Notebooks - Lamar Notes Notebooks XXXIV-XLVI 5 1-15 Notebooks - Lamar Notes Notebooks XLVII-LXI 6 1-3 Notebooks LXIII-LXV 6 4 Notebooks Indexes Books I-XXVI 6 5 Lamar Notes - Dates in Lamar Books 6 6 Lamar Notes 6 7 M.B. Lamar Criticism in Texas Press 6 8 Buckley's resolution on the Death of Lamar - House Journal 1859-1860 6 9 M.B. Lamar - Laredo Papers Report of Lamar's Service at Laredo 6 10 M.B. Lamar - Material from the Houston Public Library 6 11 M.B. Lamar - Material from Texas University Archives - Thomas J. Rusk Papers and Ashbel Smith Papers. 6 12 Lamar Papers - Texas State Archives 6 13 Letters in the National Archives concerning M.B. Lamar to President James Buchanan 6 14 Letters in the National Archives seeking appointment for M.R. Lamar to President Franklin Pierce (see also box 18) 6 15 Materials relating to the possible impeachment of M.B. Lamar - Courtesy of Miss Harriet Smither 6 16 Juan Letters - Lamar Papers and Dientz Papers 6 17 Dr. Willis Roberts Family - Includes Olivia Mather Papers - see also Juan Letters 6 18 M.B. Lamar - Marriage - New Orleans - Miss Henrietta M. Maffitt January 29, 1851 7 1 Thaddeau B. Rice 7 2 Nathan Sargent Papers 7 3 Rebecca Dollie Scrapbook 7 4 Papers of Mrs. T.J. Christian 7 5 Material from Grace Gilliam Davidson 7 6 Howell C. Erwin Papers 7 7 Letters to Mrs. Ernest Lamar from C.R. Lamar 7 8 The Lamar Family from A History of Texas and Texans, Volume V pages 2647-2651 by Frank W. Johnson 7 9 Mrs. E.H.J. Andrews material 7 10 Material from Loretta D. Brown 7 11 Miscellaneous Notes and Sketches, including newspaper clippings 7 12 Lamar Genealogies 7 13 Lamar Family, Materials from Harold D. LeMar 7 14 Lamar Family Obituary Notices 7 15 M.B. Lamar - Georgia and National Archives, Dept. of State, Appointments, Digest of Lamar's Political Service in Georgia 7 16 Lamar and Jordan Family Data from S.A. Gordon 7 17 William Jefferson Jones Papers 7 18 Materials from Henry W. Adams Lamar in Alabama 1835-1836 8 1 Kate Word Jones Papers 8 2 General Land Office - Lamar Land 8 3 Lamar Homes in Georgia - from George A. Lamar 8 4 Lamar Homestead - Georgia 8 5 Wills: Thomas Lamar, Jeremiah Lamar & Harmona Lamar 8 6 George A. Lamar - Typed transcription of Newspaper Articles on the Lamar and Davis Families. 8 7 Lamar Addresses Correspondence - Lamar Notes 8 8 Correspondence I 8 9 Correspondence II 9 1 Correspondence III 9 2 Correspondence IV 9 3 Correspondence V 9 4 Correspondence VI & VII 9 5 Correspondence VIII 9 6 Correspondence IX 10 1 Correspondence X - Lamar & Dryden 10 2 Correspondence XI #1 10 3 Correspondence XI #2 10 4 Correspondence XII 10 5 Correspondence XIII - Lamar Descendants 11 1 Correspondence XIV 11 2 Correspondence XV 11 3 Correspondence XVI 11 4 Correspondence XVII 11 5 Correspondence XVIII 12 Correspondence XIX-XXI 13 1 Correspondence XXII 13 2 Correspondence XXIII 13 3 Correspondence XXIII (2) Hereford Family 13 4 Hereford Family Genealogy 13 5 Hereford Family of Virginia 13 6 Hereford Family - Descendants of Robert Ammon Hereford and Virginia Lewis 13 7 Robert Lewis Hereford & Francis Hereford, Congressmen 13 8 F.H. Hereford Letters 13 9 Dr. Thomas A. Hereford and Solomon P. Sublette - trading in Mexico and Trip to California 13 10 John Hereford Family 13 11 Hereford Family William G. Dryden 14 1 Early Life in Kentucky 14 2 Madison Co. Kentucky Records 14 3 New Mexico, Personnel of the Rowland-Workman Party, American Trades in New Mexico 14 4 The Gran Quivera Episode - (Saga of Pegleg Smith) 14 5 Mexican War - The Anglo American Pres. in Mexico - James L. Freanor in California - John H. Peoples 14 6 Sketches and notes 14 7 Notes from Harris Newark: Sixty Years in Southern California 14 8 Santa Fe Expedition - Federalist War 14 9 Trial in Mexico 14 10 Dryden Claim National Archives Records of the Department of State, Claims against Mexico Commission of 1848 - Undocked Claim No. 8 14 11 Dryden Claim - 2nd Copy 14 12 Documents in Spanish Estas Con las copia de los documentos que extisten en Guerra y Marina 15 1 Dryden Family Genealogical Data 15 2 Wake - Dryden Family Genealogy 15 3 Wake - Dryden Family Genealogy 15 4 Dryden Family - Kentucky 15 5 Lewis Family of Kentucky - Collateral Dryden Line 15 6 Dryden Family 15 7 Additional Notes on the Dryden and other Families of Early Kentucky 15 8 Dryden name - Dallas Morning News March 23, 1972 15 9 Photograph Judge Dryden 15 10 Outline of Kit Carson's Career (Dryden Interest) Thomas Blackwell File 15 11 John Gnatt - Blackwell Trapping File Sterling. Blackwell - Chrisley Stringfellow 15 12 John Gnatt - Blackwell Trapping Party Additional Research Files 16 1 Richard Gatt Williams and his trip to Sante Fe in 1826 16 2 William Donoho and Family 16 3 Alexander G. Follett 1822-1906 16 4 Issac N. Fleeson 16 5 Gold Hunting in Texas 16 6 James Hamilton 16 7 Materials furnished by Susan Buell Hale Simmons and Maffitt Family 16 8 Commodore John Newland Maffitt and Maffitt Family 16 9 Solomon Houck and Descendants and Augustus Storrs 16 10 Augustus Storrs, Jr. and Sr. 16 11 Gideon K. Lewis 16 12 H.L. Kinney 16 13 R.D. Johnson, Galveston, Texas (Maffitt and Lamar Families) 16 14 Lucius Falkland Thurston 16 15 Jose Agustin Quintero 16 16 Frank Tolbert - Few Clips 16 17 Republic of the Rio Grande City of Matamoras, Microfilm Copy Tuesday, June 30, 1846 16 18 John H. Peoples 16 19 Albert Pike (Aaron Lewis) 16 20 Clark R. Owen 16 21 Maps of the environs of Matamoras Showing the Battlefields of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma 16 22 Mussina Papers 16 23 "Private Lives" - Cartoon George S. Patton 16 24 Morman Disturbances in Missouri 1831-1838 16 25 John Joel Glanton 16 26 Notes for the Economic History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley 1820-1875 by Leroy P. Graf, Ph.D. Thesis Harvard. 16 27 Sam Houston 16 28 General Hugh McLeod 16 29 Notes on James Kirker - Original prepared by W.W. Hutchinson 16 30 William Knight 16 31 Dr. George East of Samford Kentucky and the East Family 17 1 John A. Yeoteh and the Mesquite gum project "My Texas" by J. Frank Dobie 17 2 Samuel Swartout 17 3 James Love 17 4 Wolfskills, Letters from John Hawkins 17 5 Lysander Wells Papers 17 6 Edward A. Weyman, U.S.N. 17 7 Map File 17 8 Hugh McLeod Papers 17 9 Solomon Smith 17 10 Sidney Sherman 17 11 William D. Redd File 17 12 New Orleans - Fire Jan. 18, 1851 & Map of Vieux Carre 17 13 Sketch of Commodore Edwin Ward Moore 17 14 Congressional Record 75th Congress Third Session - Remarks of Maury Maverick - Texas Independence Day March 2, 1938 17 15 Texas Sketches by W.E. Bard 17 16 Short Story "The Big Storm" by W.E. Bard 17 17 Miscellaneous Sketches 17 18 A. Bledsoe, the Man Texas Forgot by Vivian Richardson 17 19 List of Graves in Galveston Cemeteries 17 20 Rev. Edward Fontaine 17 21 Harbert Davenport 17 22 Mrs. S.J. Cartledge Papers 17 23 Webb and Allied Families 17 24 The Life of Mrs. Horn with extracts from Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas by John Henry Brown 17 25 Book of Chronicles 17 26 James D. Cooke 17 27 Centennial Columbus Enquirer. L.S. Patterson April 22, 1928 17 28 Broaddus Family 17 29 Bugg Family 17 30 Articles about Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of Aaron Burr 17 31 "The City of Galveston" 18 Note cards related to a variety of research projects. Microfilm copies of National Archives Records relating mainly to Mirabeau B. Lamar. Time in Your Hands by W.E. Bard