These records of the Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation consist of correspondence, maps, newspaper clippings, and local government resolutions. Records date from 1959 to 1981 with the bulk dating from 1970 to 1981. Records are from the correspondence of Dewitt C. Greer, State Highway Engineer (1940-1967) and Highway Commissioner (1969-1981). Correspondents include state and local public officials, district Highway Department engineers, chambers of commerce, businesses, and private citizens. Most of the folders are labeled "Miscellaneous" and these contain much personal correspondence of Greer including congratulatory and condolence letters, letters of recommendation, and invitations. Mixed in with these, however, are letters concerned with such Highway Department matters as the status of a highway construction project or a junkyard visible from the road, which Greer answered personally. There is also a separate folder of congratulatory letters on Greer's appointment to the Highway Commission in 1969. Two other folders are labeled "Pending Hearings" and contain correspondence from landowners, citizens, and businesses that were concerned with proposed road construction. Most of these letters were also answered by Greer but there are some responses by other Highway Department officials. This correspondence was filed separately in case a hearing was requested by one of the parties before the Highway Commission, but none of these cases apparently ever had a hearing.

To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.