Correspondence including letters from Mrs. Clements encouraging foundations and other potential donors to contribute, proclamation of Governor Clements designating 1990 as the Year of the Aquarium, clipping, brochure bout the Founders Campaign, and funding proposal submitted to The O’Donnell Foundation

Letter, brochure, and newsletter of the gallery on the University of Texas at Austin campus

Letters, memos, canvass tally sheet, reports, leadership lists, campaign activities report, and a multi page report on the annual convention of the Arizona Federation of Republican Women

Reports of the Alabama Federation of Republican Women, canvass tally sheet, clippings, and a compilation of Quotes, Votes & Scholarships of James W. Fulbright

Letter and pictorial article from the December 6 Arkansas Gazette about the Governor’s Mansion decorated for Christmas

Note about speaking at the Arlington Junior League and a letter to Mrs. Clements thanking her for assisting someone be accepted into the Junior League who later helped start a Junior League in Arlington

Letters and notes about Mrs. Clements speaking at the group’s meeting in Arlington, August 9. One letter indicates the engagement was cancelled and a not on the original folder indicated it was cancelled on August 3.

Four clippings mostly about the University of Texas at Austin and an article by Paul Burka about H. Ross Perot titled Power from the December 1987 Texas Monthly

Letters, copies articles on the arts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area from the Dallas Morning News of December 7, 8, and 9, 1986, 1987 annual report of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, and exhibit catalog of twentieth century art from the Charles Rand Penny Collection at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York

Minutes and other materials relating to meetings of the Advisory Council of the Texas Commission on the Arts and Humanities, tentative text for an illustrated brochure on the Governor’s Mansion, two versions of text for Mansion tour guides to use in giving tours, transcripts of two papers on Greek Revival Architecture presented Roy Graham and Blake Alexander at the 1969 Windedale Workshop, letters, notes, and correspondence of Lynn Osborne about and draft of her report on the architectural and interior furnishings with a bibliography on the Texas Governor’s Mansion done as a student in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas

Report on the history of the Mansion by William Seale, Note about Seale’s books The Tasteful Interlude and Recreating the Historic Home Interior, a review of the latter of the two, letter from the Texas Commission on the Arts and Humanities, memo from the Commission concerning employing William Seale as a consultant regarding the Mansion, copy of an agreement between the Commission and Seale, and a copy of Seale’s report on the Governor’s Mansion lacking the paint report and some other unspecified material

Letters, memos, notes, clippings, purchase orders, copies of pages of a furniture catalog from which Mrs. Briscoe purchased furniture for the Mansion, report of the backgrounds and furnishings purchased for the Mansion from Larry A. Schrader and Revell & Co. and installed in the Mansion, segment from the nomination of the Manson for the National Register, and a report of recent acquisitions and additions to the Mansion furnishings

Letters, lists of items picked up for repair, restoration, and refinishing, lists of items delivered, invoices, and other materials relating to the services of Jed Mace in working on Mansion furnishings and list of Mansion items sent to Dallas for the Tri Delta Auction Charity Show

Letters, memos, and notes about six matching silver butter plates with MMN monogrammed on them given to Mrs. Neff when her husband Pat was Governor, other furniture to be used in the Mansion, and lists of furniture that has been boxed and sent to Central Supply for auction and other furniture that was not be repaired, and information on drapes to be used in the Governor’s private quarters

Seat Covers, Memos and notes about inviting women to an event in the Mansion who had made needlepoint covers for state dining room chairs

Letters about setting up a display on the restoration of the Mansion in the Austin Foleys store and text of a brochure to be available with the exhibit to explain the restoration project

Note about and business card from Tera Nance who wanted to care for antique clocks in the Mansion, notes about the condition of an electric mixer memo about and copy of a form to be used in removing items from the Mansion for repair, and notes about repairing or restoring other Mansion furniture

Memos, notes, bills, and invoices related to repairs in the mansion and its furnishings much of which was done at the Texas Department of Corrections in Huntsville

Letter and note on restrictions relating to grants from the office of the U. S. Secretary of the Interior concerning the eligibility of the Texas Governor’s Mansion for federal grant money as a National Historic Landmark

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