Correspondence, memos, notes, purchase orders, invoices, report on Furnishings of Historic Interest in the Governor’s Mansion by Mrs. Price Daniel, and information on the Texas Fine Arts Commission

Notes and correspondence

Clements, Letters, memos, and notes concerning furniture at various locations on the University of Texas Campus which might be loaned to the Governor’s office including two chairs that once belonged to Governor Hogg that were in the Texas Memorial Museum, and unspecified furniture at the Harry Ransome Center

Silver Flatware (State, Hogg, etc.), Letters, memos, notes, lists of silver, invoices, copies of checks, state purchase voucher, and an agreement to transport silver from Austin to Taunton, Massachusetts where it was to be repaired and polished by Joe Koen & Sons and returned to Austin

Sam Houston Portraits, Correspondence, memos, notes, and invoices concerning Adrian Lamb execute three copies of the Martin Johnson Heade portrait of Sam Houston. One copy was for Governor and Mrs. Clements, one was for Governor Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, and one was for Doug Brown, Special Assistant to Governor Clements. Also includes a copy of information on the artist Heade from Painting in Texas The Nineteenth Century by Pauline A. Pinckney.

Before Preston Smith, Letters, notes, clippings, reports on the Governor’s Mansion and some if its furnishings, and a reprint of articles apparently by Carolyn Patrick from the Dallas Morning News on the Governor’s Mansion, 1942-1966 with some 1979 cover letters for copies of earlier materials

Proposals for improving the Mansion, Preston Smith, Letters, note, and report on proposed improvements, renovations, and redecorating for the Governor’s Mansion

William P. Clements, Jr., Letters, memos, notes, and a clipping concerning possible complete renovation of the Governor’s Mansion

Letters, report by Roy Eugene Graham on the Architecture and Interior Considerations of the Governor’s Mansion, clipping of an article about Mrs. Briscoe leaving the Mansion, list of things Mrs. Briscoe did to the interior of the Mansion, and a list of resolutions of the Texas Commission on the Arts and Humanities August 1, 1973

Working lists, Memos, notes, and various lists of furnishings with some status reports on items on the lists

John Connally, Letters, memos, note, clippings, Attorney General’s opinion, and section of a report from Governor John Connally to the Legislature, and information for tour guides to use in giving tours of the Governor’s Mansion gardens all relating to using iron fence that once surrounded the Texas Capitol grounds in putting a fence around the Governor’s Mansion

Preston Smith, Letters, memos, notes, photocopies of photographs of statues on the Mansion grounds, draft text of a state historical marker for the Mansion, state purchase order for the materials needed for an underground sprinkler system for the Mansion, and reports of proposed changes and improvements to the Mansion gardens and the landscaping of the Mansion, types and numbers of flowers and trees to be planted, and results of soil tests in the gardens

Dolph Briscoe, Letter, invoice, and purchase vouchers regarding planting of twelve live oak trees on the grounds of the Governor’s Mansion and report of the Governor’s Mansion Committee of the Texas Commission on the Arts and Humanities on the hiring of William Seale as a consultant to prepare a master plan for the restoration and renovation of the Mansion

William P. Clements, Jr., Letters, press release, clippings, Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 23 concerning the appointment of a committee to study the need for restoration and renovation of the Governor’s Mansion, and a first draft of a book chapter titled “The Economic Impact of the Arts upon Communities,” by Bill D. Francis

Letters, memos, list of National Register properties in Texas, application for placing the Governor’s Mansion on the list of National Register properties, copy of a brochure about the National Historic Landmarks Program, and list of people attending the March 2, 1976 ceremony at which a National Historic Landmark plaque and certificate for the Governor’s Mansion

Preston Smith, Letters, memos one of deals with and has attached to it a list of furniture removed from three rooms of the Mansion, purchase requests and orders, and a schedule for Mansion employees including some changes among them

Pease Collection in Pease Room Texas State Library, Notes, copies of acquisition documents, and excerpts from Texas State Library Newsletters about acquisition of Pease materials by the Texas State Library

Relic Storage, Letters, donation records forms, accession records, notes, and copies of pages from the Relic Location List of the Texas State library concerning items given by the great-grandchildren of Governor and Mrs. Elisha M. Pease to the Texas State Library

Missing Materials, Reports, mostly undated, concerning missing items

Texas State Library Documentation, Notes, copies from Texas State Library Newsletters, lists of furniture, clippings, and a report titled Evolution of the Pease Collection Given to the Texas State Library

Clements “Pease Collection,” Letters, memos, and notes about Pease items already in the Mansion collection and seeking information on other Pease materials and documents that might be made available to the Mansion for the planned second state bedroom to be names the Elisha M. Pease Bedroom

Notes about, descriptions of, notes of conversations about, and signed gift form regarding certain pieces of Pease furniture in the Mansion collection

Letters, notes, memos, and an agreement concerning certain pieces of Pease family furniture belonging to the Texas State Library and Archives but on loan to the Governor’s Office. Two bookcases had been taken to the Texas Water Commission office by Lee Biggart

Letters and transcripts or summaries of conversations with descendents of Governor and Mrs. Pease concerning a metal encased clock of uncertain date sometimes claimed to have been in the Governor’s Mansion during Governor Pease’s tenure there beginning in 1857. It appears that an older clock might have been put inside a metal housing at some point possibly after 1900

Pre-Clements, Books, articles, Letters, memos, notes, sections on the Mansion from reports of Governors John Connally, Dolph Briscoe, and Preston Smith, bibliography of books with information on the Governor’s Mansion, clipping, a description of the Mansion during the Allan Shivers Administration, and a booklet on the Mansion published during the time Preston Smith was Governor

William P. Clements, Jr., Letters, memos, notes, reports, clippings, copy of the speech of Dorothy Blodgett representing Mrs. Rita Clements at the Docents Organization at Bayou Bend Museum in Houston, records of structural changes and alterations to the Mansion, typed copy of a March 29, 1883 article about the Mansion from the Austin Weekly Statesman, list of governors who occupied the Mansion with dates 157-1979, an inventory of furniture and articles of Governors Mansion on November 8, 1961, copies of plans of the Mansion done for the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1936, list of renovations and improvements to the Mansion 1950-1978, report on the renovation of the air conditioning system of in 1962, and an anonymous 16 page document about Miriam Ferguson

Report by consultants and architects Revell & Company of Austin on the bedroom and its furnishings including what alterations were made to the room over time

Letter, excerpts from Texas Governor’s Wives by Pearl Cashell Jackson (1916) and the Austin Statesman (January 2, 1912) record of backgrounds and furnishings installed in the room by Larry A. Schrader and Revelle & Co. with values of each item, invoices from Revelle & Co. for items supplied and services rendered, and a memo concerning the gift of a dressing table by Revelle & Co.

Memos, notes, requests for bids, invoices, purchase vouchers, lists of items to be placed on inventory, record of gifts received at the Mansion for state use, letter about and list of silver given to the Mansion in the will of Miss Ima Hogg, notes thanking donors of silver to the Mansion, list of silver given in honor of Governor and Mrs. John B. Connally, and list of silver items donated

Letters, note, information on funding for the Texas Commission for the Arts and spending by major Texas arts institutions, information on Patricia E. Collins of Richardson, and clipping about John Paul Batiste, executive director of the commission

Letters, memos, notes, lists, and clippings related to furnishings in or belonging to the Governor’s Mansion including a 1861 inventory of the articles in the governor’s house, an article titled Where the Governors of Texas Live and Transact Business from the October 23, 1921 Austin Statesman, a six page summary of the evolution of the Mansion’s construction and changes to it, two pages of a transcript of an interview with Miss Ima Hogg in May 1962, excerpts from the minutes of the Texas Commission on Art and Humanities between 1973 and 1978, summary of minutes of the Mansion Board, 1931-1943, various notes and transcript of a conversation about the Beltar Parlor Set, information on numerous other furniture pieces and other furnishings, information on the Ima Hogg Rosewood parlor set, and the donation of Sam Houston Allred’s baby quilt to the Fort Belknap Archives

Typescript, Prologue - chapter 6

Part one, manuscript, 1994?

Original typescript, with handwritten edits, chapter 13 - Epilogue

Typescript, chapter 7 - 12