Historian and author, Louise Horton (1916-2005) was born Louise Charlotte Walthall in
Granbury, Texas. In 1938, she married Claude Wendell Horton (1915-2002), a professor
of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, and the couple had two children,
physicist C. Wendell Horton and Margaret Horton Morefield. Louise Horton graduated
with a B. A. degree from Rice University in 1938. While living in Austin, she worked
as an archivist at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and published
numerous research articles and book reviews on Texas and southern history. Her
publications include
The Louise Horton Papers, 1932-1995, contain journals and memoirs, correspondence,
maps and nautical charts, news clippings, photographs, working notebooks, and drafts
of manuscripts, which document the published and unpublished works of Louise Horton
and her professional and personal relationships. Drafts, notebooks, and
correspondence with potential publishers illustrate the research, writing, and
publishing processes for Horton’s novels
The papers also contain Horton’s journals and memoirs, 1967-1988, and correspondence to Louise Horton from Claude W. Horton, C. Wendell Horton, Margaret Horton Morefield, several Episcopalian nuns, Iris Murdoch, and Dorothy Walthall Hill, among others. Photographs and photo albums depict the Horton family, their homes, and areas where they resided. Maps and nautical charts represent the Gulf Coast, Galveston Bay, the city of Houston, and other areas in Texas.
This collection is open for research use.
The copyright of unpublished materials belonged to Louise Horton (now deceased).
Louise Horton Papers, 1932-1995, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s