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Descriptive Summary
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents
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Administrative Information
Description of Series
Inventory
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A Guide to the Alfred and John Guild Letters
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Creator: |
Guild, Alfred |
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Creator: |
Guild, John |
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Title: |
Alfred and John Guild
Letters |
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Dates: |
1831-1848 |
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Abstract: |
The collection
consists of original manuscript letters mostly written by brothers Alfred and
John Guild describing their travels and experiences in Texas. |
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Extent |
1/2 in. |
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Language |
Materials are in English. |
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Repository |
Center for American
History, The University of Texas at Austin |
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The collection consists of original manuscript letters mostly written
by brothers Alfred and John Guild describing their travels and experiences in
Texas. Includes an eyewitness account of an attack by the Mexican ship
Correo and commentary on the Texas Independence
movement.
The bulk of the letters are addressed to the brothers' father and
sister in Dedham, Massachusetts.
Also includes important early letter written from Houston, Texas,
describing the difficult financial conditions in Texas.
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Subjects (Persons) |
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Austin, Stephen F.
(Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836 |
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Burnet, David Gouverneur,
1789-1870 |
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Guild, Alfred |
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Guild, John,
Jr. |
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Hurd, William
A. |
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Newlands, John
Alex |
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Nixon, George A. (George
Antonio), 1781-1843 |
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Santa Anna, Antonio
López de, 1794?-1876 |
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Thompson, Thomas
M. |
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Williams, Samuel May,
1795-1858 |
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Subjects |
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Cotton--Texas,
1831-1848 |
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Farms--Texas--History--Sources |
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Frontier and pioneer
life--Texas, 1831-1848 |
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Land--Texas,
1831-1848 |
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Merchants--Texas,
1831-1848 |
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Mexican schooner
Correo de Mexico
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Steamboat
Rainbow
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Steamboats--Brazos
River |
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Texas--Description and
travel--Sources |
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Texas--History--Republic,
1836-1846--Sources |
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Texas--History--Revolution, 1835-1836 |
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Texas Navy, 1835 |
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Texas Schooner
San Felipe
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Yellow fever--New Orleans,
1847 |
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Places |
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Brazoria (Tex.),
1831-1848 |
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Brazos River (Tex.),
1831-1848 |
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Burleson County (Tex.),
1847 |
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Houston (Tex.),
1839 |
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Mexico,
1831-1848 |
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Milam County (Tex.),
1831-1848 |
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New Orleans (La.),
1831-1848 |
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San Antonio (Tex.),
1831-1848 |
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Alfred and John Guild Letters, 1831-1848, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History,
The University of Texas at Austin.
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Inventory |
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| 2.325/C16 |
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Letters, 1831-1848 |
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Letter, John Alex Newlands to John Guild, "in
consequence of the continued depreciation of the currency in the country."
Describes the economic woes in Texas, and was probably one of the earliest
letters written from the city of Houston, which was founded just two years
prior, February 21, 1839 |
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