Scope and Contents The collection contains original materials from 1873-1998 focused on Donald Coers’ thirty-year career at Sam Houston State University (1969-2000). The collection is comprised of three boxes. Box 1 – Donald V. Coers Folders - 9 folders, including educational, administrative, and personal material, 39 photographs, and 2 manuscripts. Box 2 – The Faculty handbook - 1990 Revised Edition. Box 3- Donald V. Coers Materials - 22 publications (including one UT Austin...

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This collection contains correspondence from a prisoner at Ship Island, Mississippi to Jefferson Davis. It also contains an article by Lee Meriwether regarding his childhood encounter with Davis.

Scope and Contents The John Warren Smith Collection (1836-2009; ten boxes) contains materials documenting the history of John Warren Smith and the Smith family of Walker County, Texas. The Walker County probate and deed records include information that was used in the writing of John Warren Smith’s novel No Holier Spot ofGround published by Sam Houston State University’s Texas Review Press in 2004. The originalmanuscript and author’s notes for No Holier Spot of Ground are part of the collection, which also...

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This collection contains materials donated by Mary Wentworth Whatley. Materials include information regarding her family heritage, experiences in England during World War II, and other supplemental information.

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The collection contains various types of information about Texas authors, including newspapers and articles.

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This collection holds materials regarding Tomas Rivera’s career and time as a professor at Sam Houston State University.

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This collection consists solely of a flyer from the Tribute to Southwestern Culture event.