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VOLUME VII, 1903, pp. 546, $3.00 UNBOUND.

GENERAL JOSEPH MARTIN-A SOUTHERN SULKY RIDE-EARLY QUAKER RECORDS IN VIRGINIA-TEXAS REVOLUTIONARY SENTIMENT-Two SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COMMISSIONS-REPORT OF SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING-RESOLUTIONS IN MEMORY OF DR. J. L. M. CURRY-PUBLICATION OF CONFEDERATE RosTERS-CALHOUN BY HIS POLITICAL FRIENDS-THE DUANE LETTERS-CAPTURE OF ST. MARY'S, GA.-THE NEGRO IN AFRICA AND AMERICA-PRESCRIPT of Ku KLUX KLAN-SOUTHERN TRAVELER'S DIARY IN 1840-EXPANSION OF OLD SOUTHWEST-Confederate Naval BOOKS AND OTHERS-REVIEWS AND NOTICES -PERIODICAL LITERATURE-NOTES AND NEWS.

VOLUME VIII, $3.00 UNBOUND.

No. 1, JANUARY, 1904.

TEXAS REVOLUTION DOCUMENTS, ..

SOUTHERN TRAVELER'S DIARY IN 1840 (continued),

FIRST UNIVERSITY PLANNED FOR AMERICA (U. S.), by J. S. Flory,
THE DUANE LETTERS (continued),

RECONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS,

REVIEWS,

PERIODICAL LITERATURE,

NOTES AND NEWS,

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No. 2. MARCH, 1904.

ALABAMA WAR HOME LIFE, by W. L. Fleming,

TEXAS REVOLUTION DOCUMENTS,

JANNEY GENEALOGY (to be continued), by Miles White, Jr.,
SOUTHERN TRAVELER'S DIARY IN 1840 (concluded),
RECONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS,

JONES GENEALOGY (to be continued), by A. S. Salley, Jr.,
Reviews,

PERIODICAL LITERATURE,

NOTES AND NEWS,

No. 3. MAY, 1904.

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JOURNAL OF WILLIAM CALHOUN,

JANNEY GENEALOGY (continued), by Miles White, Jr.,
RECONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS,

JONES GENEALOGY (concluded), by A. S. Salley, Jr.,
REVIEWS,

PERIODICAL LITERATURE,

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NOTES AND NEWS,

EXTRA VOLUME I.

250

INDEX to Meade's Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia.

By J. M. Toner, M. D., 8vo., pp. 63, cloth or paper, $3.00.

Address

P. O. Box 65.

SOUTHERN HISTORY ASSOCIATION,

WASHINGTON, D. C.

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Pursuant to a call signed by nearly a hundred representative persons of the South, the Southern History Association was organized at the Columbian University, Washington, D. C., on the evening of April 24, 1896, for the purpose of studying the history of the Southern States. In carrying out this aim an annual meeting is held, and a Bi-monthly Publication issued. The Association also desires contributions of journals, letters, manuscripts and other material towards the beginning of a collection of historical sources. It will gladly accept papers based on research and documents on all subjects touching the South.

All persons, as well as libraries, interested in the work are eligible for membership, without initiation fee; annual dues $3.00, life dues $30.00. There is no other expense to members, who receive all current publications of the Association free of charge.

The publications alone can be had, postpaid, at $3.00 per volume, unbound, or $1.00 per number.

All communications should be addressed to

P. O. Box 65.

COLYER MERIWETHER, Secretary.
WASHINGTON, D. C.

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CONSERVATIVES AND RENEGADES IN TEXAS REVOLUTION-DOCUMENTS, 1835.

[Like all great human movements, the Texas Revolution had its intense conservatives, or peace party, who tried to bring about adjustment of some sort without conflict. The two leading representatives of this element were Edward Gritten and D. C. Barrett. Unfortunately there were some deserters, also, from the Texas side, James H. C. Miller being, perhaps, the most prominent. Some of the following documents have already been published, but they seem worthy of reissue, as the previous source, a newspaper, is not readily accessible, and besides they aid in illuminating the others now first published.]

BARRETT AND GRITTEN TO Cos.

BEXAR, August 9, 1835.

* * * You have already the notice of our mission to this commandancy as a canal of communication to the General Government from the Political Chief of the Brazos. And thus it is that the object of this communication is to let you know that in spite of the great desire that we have to come and destroy in your mind, and through you, in the mind of

the General Government, the idea which you have formed that the unlawful proceedings of certain citizens of Texas came from the majority, we are now sorry to inform you that our departure will not take place until Mr. Gritten returns from San Felipe. The object of his journey is to get instructions sufficiently extensive to cover all cases that may arise, or may be considered as belonging to our mission, which is to solidify the work of conciliation, interrupted before, but which we rejoice to see from the last advices directed by you to Colonel Ugartechea, has begun again. You may well believe that all the Texans are not revolutionists, nor bad, and that the greater part of them are pacific, and we desire very much to confirm personally this assertion. And that we will have the honor to do as soon as Mr. Gritten comes to the Mission La Bahia on his return from San Felipe. In the meantime we anticipate an interview by means of this communication in the hope that it may serve to predispose you in favor of our mission, which is to promote the best interests of Texas, and to preserve with the supreme Federal Government the good understanding that ought to exist in an advantageous manner between the Texans and the other integral parts of the Republic.

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DEAR SIR: On the 15th I arrived here in great haste (apresurado). Things in the interior are in a great confusion. The Government and a part, if not all, of the permanent deputation, &c., are prisoners, because they tried to come to Texas and to be free from the military intervention of the

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