Texas -- Description and travel
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2174 Collections and/or Records:
FOIA [Freedom of Information Act requests, Federal]
File — Box 4, Folder: 8
Subseries Description
From the Sub-Series:
These files are titled and arranged (alphabetically) according to Reavis’ titles and arrangement. As a result, not all folder titles are entirely indicative of their contents. This sub-series is comprised of general subject files whose contents mostly pertain directly to research for The Ashes of Waco. However, some documents post-date the book, as Reavis continued his research work in the years that followed. The sub-series is dated according to when Reavis...
Dates:
1993-2000, undated; Majority of material found within 1993-1995
FOIA [Freedom of Information Act requests, Texas]
File — Box 4, Folder: 9
Subseries Description
From the Sub-Series:
These files are titled and arranged (alphabetically) according to Reavis’ titles and arrangement. As a result, not all folder titles are entirely indicative of their contents. This sub-series is comprised of general subject files whose contents mostly pertain directly to research for The Ashes of Waco. However, some documents post-date the book, as Reavis continued his research work in the years that followed. The sub-series is dated according to when Reavis...
Dates:
1993-2000, undated; Majority of material found within 1993-1995
Foote, A. Lee, 1990-1996
File — Box 24, Folder: 5
Series Description
From the Series:
The Correspondence series contains letters that highlight Graves’ writing career, with letters to and from publishers, agents, fellow writers, fans, event organizers and others. Insights into Graves’ personal life and thoughts are also found in letters between Graves and longtime friends and family members. Graves kept carbon copies and later computer printout copies of many of his letters to others, so the researcher gets both sides of the letter-writing dialogue, in these folders and...
Dates:
1990-1996
“For Jane Cole” Letters from Ecuador, Peru, Columbia, etc., 1954
File — Box 1854, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Materials retrieved from Hard Scrabble in June 2014. Personal papers of John Graves includes his letters home to his family from Rice University, 1938-1939; significant correspondence with Samuel Hynes and John Schaffner; letters from his time spent in Spain, 1953-1954, as well as travel documents and receipts, and correspondence from his latter years, 2006-2013. Also included are magazines featuring articles by Graves, original Russell Waterhouse drawings for Goodbye to a River, and some...
Dates:
1954
Fort Worth Country Day School
File — Box 32, Folder: 11
Series Description
From the Series:
There are two main parts to this series: Texas Institute of Letters, and Classes and Workshops. The former sub-series deals with Graves’ membership in and activities with T.I.L., including two folders of his 1971-73 presidency of the organization; while the latter sub-series contains syllabus information and notes related to two courses and one workshop taught by Graves. The files in these two sub-series are arranged chronologically. The last part in Institutional Activities is a file...
Dates:
1960-1981
Fort Worth Day School, 1962
File — Box 24, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
The Correspondence series contains letters that highlight Graves’ writing career, with letters to and from publishers, agents, fellow writers, fans, event organizers and others. Insights into Graves’ personal life and thoughts are also found in letters between Graves and longtime friends and family members. Graves kept carbon copies and later computer printout copies of many of his letters to others, so the researcher gets both sides of the letter-writing dialogue, in these folders and...
Dates:
1962
Foster - Furman, 1981-2004
File — Box 24, Folder: 7
Series Description
From the Series:
The Correspondence series contains letters that highlight Graves’ writing career, with letters to and from publishers, agents, fellow writers, fans, event organizers and others. Insights into Graves’ personal life and thoughts are also found in letters between Graves and longtime friends and family members. Graves kept carbon copies and later computer printout copies of many of his letters to others, so the researcher gets both sides of the letter-writing dialogue, in these folders and...
Dates:
1981-2004
Four black women wearing long dresses, standing at the door of a rectangular wooden building, circa 1880s-1900s
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 0112223013643], item: 28
Identifier: 2016-001_plate_028
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection consists of 46 glass plate negatives, measuring 4x5 inches, were received in three original G. Cramer Dry Plate Company boxes. The photographer is unknown. Researchers subsequently identified the bulk of images as scenes in Central Texas, as well as one in Rockville, Indiana, and dating approximately 1882-1911. Images that have been positively identified as being in San Marcos include the Hays County Courthouse designed by F.E. Ruffini, the San Marcos River, a...
Dates:
circa 1880s-1900s
Four people at base of a tree, one man and three women with river in background, circa 1880s-1900s
Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 0112223013643], item: 34
Identifier: 2016-001_plate_034
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection consists of 46 glass plate negatives, measuring 4x5 inches, were received in three original G. Cramer Dry Plate Company boxes. The photographer is unknown. Researchers subsequently identified the bulk of images as scenes in Central Texas, as well as one in Rockville, Indiana, and dating approximately 1882-1911. Images that have been positively identified as being in San Marcos include the Hays County Courthouse designed by F.E. Ruffini, the San Marcos River, a...
Dates:
circa 1880s-1900s
“Four Summers” Proposal for “Some Sweet Day” and “Four Summers” , undated
File — Box 2133, Folder: 8
Dates:
undated
‘Fragment: an ending for a story’ - typescript page, undated
File — Box 12, Folder: 4
Series Description
From the Series:
The Other Writings series is devoted to the many short stories, essays, book introductions, tributes, and unpublished pieces written by Graves, and spans almost six decades. This series is also the largest in the collection, filling eleven document boxes, plus oversize. The works within it arearranged alphabetically by title, usually according to the official published title, but sometimes by a book title if Graves’ piece is an untitled introduction, or a draft title if the piece is...
Dates:
undated
Framed drawing of man with fish on his head, undated
Item — Box 1856
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Materials retrieved from Hard Scrabble in June 2014. Personal papers of John Graves includes his letters home to his family from Rice University, 1938-1939; significant correspondence with Samuel Hynes and John Schaffner; letters from his time spent in Spain, 1953-1954, as well as travel documents and receipts, and correspondence from his latter years, 2006-2013. Also included are magazines featuring articles by Graves, original Russell Waterhouse drawings for Goodbye to a River, and some...
Dates:
undated
Frances C. Graves estate
File — Box 36, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
Notebooks, legal papers, financial papers, photographs, journals, objects and academic records make up the majority of the materials in this series. Graves’ academic career is well documented through grade reports and written recommendations, class notes from undergraduate and graduate school, and his Columbia University Master’s thesis on William Faulkner. Of particular interest in this series is the notebook Graves used while traveling in Europe and his journal of a trip down the Rio...
Dates:
1946-1976
“Friends of the EE. UU.” - corrected typescript, undated
File — Box 12, Folder: 5
Series Description
From the Series:
The Other Writings series is devoted to the many short stories, essays, book introductions, tributes, and unpublished pieces written by Graves, and spans almost six decades. This series is also the largest in the collection, filling eleven document boxes, plus oversize. The works within it arearranged alphabetically by title, usually according to the official published title, but sometimes by a book title if Graves’ piece is an untitled introduction, or a draft title if the piece is...
Dates:
undated
From a Limestone Ledge, 1978-1981
Sub-Series
Series Description
From the Series:
The Monograph series includes research notes, typed manuscripts, galley proofs, printed materials, correspondence, and other materials chronicling Graves’ literary contributions from his earliest short stories to his more recent essays and memoir. Materials from all of his books are included. Many of these materials were annotated by Graves with personal comments when he donated the materials to Bill Wittliff.Manuscript materials relating to the books Graves is credited as writing...
Dates:
1978-1981
From Hell to Breakfast, book of poetry by James Whitaker
File — Box 31, Folder: 10
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains the typescripts of one screenplay and two books by writers other than Harrigan. Arrangement is alphabetical by author.
Dates:
1971-1993, undated
Frontier Guns catalogue introduction - correspondence, corrected carbon copy, catalogues (2), 1964
File — Box 12, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
The Other Writings series is devoted to the many short stories, essays, book introductions, tributes, and unpublished pieces written by Graves, and spans almost six decades. This series is also the largest in the collection, filling eleven document boxes, plus oversize. The works within it arearranged alphabetically by title, usually according to the official published title, but sometimes by a book title if Graves’ piece is an untitled introduction, or a draft title if the piece is...
Dates:
1964
"FTW M/C Pix"
File — Box 86, Folder: 13
Series Description
From the Series:
This series offers visual documentation of Reavis’ life from childhood to present day. The photographs are arranged by type: “Of Reavis,” “By Reavis,” “General” and “Assignments,” and chronologically within their respective sub-series.
See the Waco Investigation or The National Tour of Texas series for photographs related to those topics.
Dates:
circa 1980-1989
“G-10” Railroad Commission of Texas blank forms [original envelope discarded due to condition], undated
File — Box 1855, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Materials retrieved from Hard Scrabble in June 2014. Personal papers of John Graves includes his letters home to his family from Rice University, 1938-1939; significant correspondence with Samuel Hynes and John Schaffner; letters from his time spent in Spain, 1953-1954, as well as travel documents and receipts, and correspondence from his latter years, 2006-2013. Also included are magazines featuring articles by Graves, original Russell Waterhouse drawings for Goodbye to a River, and some...
Dates:
undated
G. Cramer Dry Plate boxes, circa 1880s-1900s
Item — Box 4
Scope and Contents
Original housing of negatives.
Dates:
circa 1880s-1900s
University Archives
Room 580, Alkek Library
601 University Drive
San Marcos Texas 78666 USA
UnivArchives@txstate.edu
Room 580, Alkek Library
601 University Drive
San Marcos Texas 78666 USA
UnivArchives@txstate.edu
The Wittliff Collections
7th Floor, Alkek Library
601 University Drive
San Marcos Texas 78666 USA
Wittliff_Ref@txstate.edu
7th Floor, Alkek Library
601 University Drive
San Marcos Texas 78666 USA
Wittliff_Ref@txstate.edu