William E. Bard Collection Finding Guide to Resource Materials on Mirabeau B. Lamar and Other Texas Topics


Overview of the Collection
	Creator:	Bard, William E.
	Title:	William E. Bard Collection
	Accession No.:	MA85-10
	Quantity:	18 boxes
	Language:	The records are in English.
	Repository:	Texas/Dallas History & Archives, Dallas Public Library 1515 Young St Dallas, TX 75201

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.

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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.

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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

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Mirabeau B. Lamar Notes
Box	Folder
1	1-12	Notebooks - Lamar Notes Unnumbered and I-XI
Box	Folder
2	1-12	Notebooks - Lamar Notes Books XII-XXI
Box	Folder
3	1-14	Notebooks - Lamar Notes Notebooks XXII-XXXIII
Box	Folder
4	1-13	Notebooks - Lamar Notes Notebooks XXXIV-XLVI
Box	Folder
5	1-15	Notebooks - Lamar Notes Notebooks XLVII-LXI
Box	Folder
6	1-3	Notebooks LXIII-LXV
	4	Notebooks Indexes Books I-XXVI
	5	Lamar Notes - Dates in Lamar Books
	6	Lamar Notes
	7	M.B. Lamar Criticism in Texas Press
	8	Buckley's resolution on the Death of Lamar - House Journal 1859-1860
	9	M.B. Lamar - Laredo Papers Report of Lamar's Service at Laredo
	10	M.B. Lamar - Material from the Houston Public Library
	11	M.B. Lamar - Material from Texas University Archives - Thomas J. Rusk Papers and Ashbel Smith Papers.
	12	Lamar Papers - Texas State Archives
	13	Letters in the National Archives concerning M.B. Lamar to President James Buchanan
	14	Letters in the National Archives seeking appointment for M.R. Lamar to President Franklin Pierce (see also box 18)
	15	Materials relating to the possible impeachment of M.B. Lamar - Courtesy of Miss Harriet Smither
	16	Juan Letters - Lamar Papers and Dientz Papers
	17	Dr. Willis Roberts Family - Includes Olivia Mather Papers - see also Juan Letters
	18	M.B. Lamar - Marriage - New Orleans - Miss Henrietta M. Maffitt January 29, 1851
Box	Folder
7	1	Thaddeau B. Rice
	2	Nathan Sargent Papers
	3	Rebecca Dollie Scrapbook
	4	Papers of Mrs. T.J. Christian
	5	Material from Grace Gilliam Davidson
	6	Howell C. Erwin Papers
	7	Letters to Mrs. Ernest Lamar from C.R. Lamar
	8	The Lamar Family from A History of Texas and Texans, Volume V pages 2647-2651 by Frank W. Johnson
	9	Mrs. E.H.J. Andrews material
	10	Material from Loretta D. Brown
	11	Miscellaneous Notes and Sketches, including newspaper clippings
	12	Lamar Genealogies
	13	Lamar Family, Materials from Harold D. LeMar
	14	Lamar Family Obituary Notices
	15	M.B. Lamar - Georgia and National Archives, Dept. of State, Appointments, Digest of Lamar's Political Service in Georgia
	16	Lamar and Jordan Family Data from S.A. Gordon
	17	William Jefferson Jones Papers
	18	Materials from Henry W. Adams Lamar in Alabama 1835-1836
Box	Folder
8	1	Kate Word Jones Papers
	2	General Land Office - Lamar Land
	3	Lamar Homes in Georgia - from George A. Lamar
	4	Lamar Homestead - Georgia
	5	Wills: Thomas Lamar, Jeremiah Lamar & Harmona Lamar
	6	George A. Lamar - Typed transcription of Newspaper Articles on the Lamar and Davis Families.
	7	Lamar Addresses

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Correspondence - Lamar Notes
Box	Folder
8	8	Correspondence I
	9	Correspondence II
Box	Folder
9	1	Correspondence III
	2	Correspondence IV
	3	Correspondence V
	4	Correspondence VI & VII
	5	Correspondence VIII
	6	Correspondence IX
Box	Folder
10	1	Correspondence X - Lamar & Dryden
	2	Correspondence XI #1
	3	Correspondence XI #2
	4	Correspondence XII
	5	Correspondence XIII - Lamar Descendants
Box	Folder
11	1	Correspondence XIV
	2	Correspondence XV
	3	Correspondence XVI
	4	Correspondence XVII
	5	Correspondence XVIII
Box	Folder
12		Correspondence XIX-XXI
Box	Folder
13	1	Correspondence XXII
	2	Correspondence XXIII
	3	Correspondence XXIII (2)

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Hereford Family
Box	Folder
13	4	Hereford Family Genealogy
	5	Hereford Family of Virginia
	6	Hereford Family - Descendants of Robert Ammon Hereford and Virginia Lewis
	7	Robert Lewis Hereford & Francis Hereford, Congressmen
	8	F.H. Hereford Letters
	9	Dr. Thomas A. Hereford and Solomon P. Sublette - trading in Mexico and Trip to California
	10	John Hereford Family
	11	Hereford Family

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William G. Dryden
Box	Folder
14	1	Early Life in Kentucky
	2	Madison Co. Kentucky Records
	3	New Mexico, Personnel of the Rowland-Workman Party, American Trades in New Mexico
	4	The Gran Quivera Episode - (Saga of Pegleg Smith)
	5	Mexican War - The Anglo American Pres. in Mexico - James L. Freanor in California - John H. Peoples
	6	Sketches and notes
	7	Notes from Harris Newark: Sixty Years in Southern California
	8	Santa Fe Expedition - Federalist War
	9	Trial in Mexico
	10	Dryden Claim National Archives Records of the Department of State, Claims against Mexico Commission of 1848 - Undocked Claim No. 8
	11	Dryden Claim - 2nd Copy
	12	Documents in Spanish Estas Con las copia de los documentos que extisten en Guerra y Marina
Box	Folder
15	1	Dryden Family Genealogical Data
	2	Wake - Dryden Family Genealogy
	3	Wake - Dryden Family Genealogy
	4	Dryden Family - Kentucky
	5	Lewis Family of Kentucky - Collateral Dryden Line
	6	Dryden Family
	7	Additional Notes on the Dryden and other Families of Early Kentucky
	8	Dryden name - Dallas Morning News March 23, 1972
	9	Photograph Judge Dryden
	10	Outline of Kit Carson's Career (Dryden Interest)

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Thomas Blackwell File

Box

Folder

John Gnatt - Blackwell Trapping File Sterling. Blackwell - Chrisley Stringfellow

John Gnatt - Blackwell Trapping Party

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Additional Research Files
Box	Folder
16	1	Richard Gatt Williams and his trip to Sante Fe in 1826
	2	William Donoho and Family
	3	Alexander G. Follett 1822-1906
	4	Issac N. Fleeson
	5	Gold Hunting in Texas
	6	James Hamilton
	7	Materials furnished by Susan Buell Hale Simmons and Maffitt Family
	8	Commodore John Newland Maffitt and Maffitt Family
	9	Solomon Houck and Descendants and Augustus Storrs
	10	Augustus Storrs, Jr. and Sr.
	11	Gideon K. Lewis
	12	H.L. Kinney
	13	R.D. Johnson, Galveston, Texas (Maffitt and Lamar Families)
	14	Lucius Falkland Thurston
	15	Jose Agustin Quintero
	16	Frank Tolbert - Few Clips
	17	Republic of the Rio Grande City of Matamoras, Microfilm Copy Tuesday, June 30, 1846
	18	John H. Peoples
	19	Albert Pike (Aaron Lewis)
	20	Clark R. Owen
	21	Maps of the environs of Matamoras Showing the Battlefields of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma
	22	Mussina Papers
	23	"Private Lives" - Cartoon George S. Patton
	24	Morman Disturbances in Missouri 1831-1838
	25	John Joel Glanton
	26	Notes for the Economic History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley 1820-1875 by Leroy P. Graf, Ph.D. Thesis Harvard.
	27	Sam Houston
	28	General Hugh McLeod
	29	Notes on James Kirker - Original prepared by W.W. Hutchinson
	30	William Knight
	31	Dr. George East of Samford Kentucky and the East Family
Box	Folder
17	1	John A. Yeoteh and the Mesquite gum project "My Texas" by J. Frank Dobie
	2	Samuel Swartout
	3	James Love
	4	Wolfskills, Letters from John Hawkins
	5	Lysander Wells Papers
	6	Edward A. Weyman, U.S.N.
	7	Map File
	8	Hugh McLeod Papers
	9	Solomon Smith
	10	Sidney Sherman
	11	William D. Redd File
	12	New Orleans - Fire Jan. 18, 1851 & Map of Vieux Carre
	13	Sketch of Commodore Edwin Ward Moore
	14	Congressional Record 75th Congress Third Session - Remarks of Maury Maverick - Texas Independence Day March 2, 1938
	15	Texas Sketches by W.E. Bard
	16	Short Story "The Big Storm" by W.E. Bard
	17	Miscellaneous Sketches
	18	A. Bledsoe, the Man Texas Forgot by Vivian Richardson
	19	List of Graves in Galveston Cemeteries
	20	Rev. Edward Fontaine
	21	Harbert Davenport
	22	Mrs. S.J. Cartledge Papers
	23	Webb and Allied Families
	24	The Life of Mrs. Horn with extracts from Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas by John Henry Brown
	25	Book of Chronicles
	26	James D. Cooke
	27	Centennial Columbus Enquirer. L.S. Patterson April 22, 1928
	28	Broaddus Family
	29	Bugg Family
	30	Articles about Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of Aaron Burr
	31	"The City of Galveston"
Box	Folder
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

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