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A Guide to the Robert Lynn Batts Papers, 1885-1935,
1949
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| Creator | Batts, R. L. (Robert Lynn),
1864-1935. |
| Title | Batts (Robert Lynn) Papers
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| Dates: | 1885-1935, 1949 |
| Abstract | Papers of R.L. Batts
relate to his career as attorney, judge, professor of law and member of the
Board of Regents of the University of Texas. |
| Extent | 6 ft., 3 in.; manuscript,
letterpress, typescript, printed. |
| Language | English. |
| Repository | Center for
American History, The University of Texas at
Austin |
Papers concerned with the career of Batts (1864-1935), attorney, judge,
educator, relate to land transactions; early history of Bastrop; Batts's
activities as an attorney in Bastrop and Austin; his association with The
University of Texas as a law student, a professor of law, and a member of the
Board of Regents; and his professional activities as Texas counsel in the
Waters-Pierce case, as United States judge of Circuit Court of Appeals, and as
general counsel for the Gulf Petroleum Company. Materials dealing with The
University of Texas concern the constitutional amendment fight of 1913-1914
over state tax to support both The University of Texas and Texas A & M
College, the Ferguson Controversy, and recommendations for the selection of
presidents. Papers include correspondence, reminiscences, college papers,
minutes, deeds, plats, surveys, account papers, bonds, and legal papers.
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| Subjects (Persons) |
| | Batts, R. L. (Robert Lynn),
1864-1935--Archives |
| | Benedict, Harry Yandell,
1869-1937. |
| | Ferguson, James Edward,
1871-1944. |
| | Gregory, Thomas Watt,
1861-1933. |
| Subjects (Organizations) |
| | Gulf Oil
Company. |
| | Texas A& M
University |
| | Texas. Agricultural and
Mechanical College, College Station. |
| | University of
Texas. |
| | University of Texas. Board
of Regents |
| | Waters-Pierce Oil
Company. |
| Subjects |
| | Gas
industry--Texas. |
| | Judges--Texas |
| | Oil fields--Texas. |
| | Petroleum industry and
trade--Texas. |
| Places |
| | Austin (Tex.) |
| | Big Lake Oil Field
(Tex.) |
| | Bastrop (Tex.) |
| | Central West Texas Oil
Field (Tex.) |
| | Texas |
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Robert Lynn Batts Papers, 1885-1935, 1949, Center for American History,
The University of Texas at Austin.
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Inventory:
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| 2E81 | | | Correspondence,
1848-1919 |
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| 2E82 | | | Correspondence,
1920-1928 |
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| 2E83 | | | Correspondence,
1929-1930 |
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| 2E84 | | | Correspondence,
1931-1932 |
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| 2E85 | | | Correspondence,
1932-1949 and
undated |
| | | Letter Presses,
1888-1892,
1924-1925 |
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| 2E86 | | | Letter presses,
1925-1927,
1927-1930 |
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| 2E87 | | | Letter presses,
1930-1933,
1933-1935 |
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| 2E88 | | | Personal correspondence,
1886-1937 |
| | | Expenses of hunting trips,
1923-1935 |
| | | Undated personal correspondence |
| | | Addresses and writings,
1896-1919,
1922-1934 |
| | | Addresses and writings,
undated |
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| 2E89 | | | Correspondence (incomplete)
undated |
| | | Legal and business documents,
1820-1869,
1870-1899 |
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| 2E90 | | | Legal and business documents,
1900-1937 |
| | | Legal and business documents,
undated |
| | | College papers,
1885-1886 |
| | | College papers,
undated |
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| 2E91 | | | Minutes, reports (other than)
1911-1932 |
| | | Budgets,
1927-1935 |
| | | Legislation oil lands, leases, and data |
| | | Legal bonds buildings and expansion |
| | | Newspaper clippings and other printed material |
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| 2E92 | | | Personal account books,
1920-1929 |
| | | Personal and legal accounts,
1888-1925 |
| | | Legal accounts and notes,
1835-1894 |
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| 2E93 | | | Legal, State of Texas vs. Warren Moore, Gregory and Batts
Legal,
1919-1925 and
undated |
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| 2F301 | | | Stephen F. Austin map of Texas,
binding
only 1835 - |
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| OD1281 | | | Stephen F. Austin map of Texas with parts of adjoining
states,
St.
1115c 1835, |
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| 3G211 | | | Correspondence,
1924, 1926-1927, 1929,
1931, 1933-1935, and undated |
| | | University budgets,
1929-1930, 1930-1931,
1931-1932 |
| | | University legislation and appropriations,
1929-1931, 1935 |
| | | University construction, buildings, and grounds,
1927-1934 |
| | | University lands, oil, trusts, and investments,
and miscellaneous 1927-1929, 1931-1934,
undated |
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| 3G212 | | | University lands, oil, trusts, and investments: oil and
gas royalty audits,
1926-1932 |
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| 3S108 | | | Photographs |
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| 3S165 | | | Oversize materials |
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| OD1273 | | | Oversize materials |
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| SRH | | | Maps in CAH map collection: |
| | | | Geological Map of Texas by the UT Bureau of Economic
Geology, color, 1919 |
| | | | Asia and Adjacent Regions, National Geographic Society,
color, 1933 |
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