This series contains outlines, plot sketches, and drafts of Caves of Arayat.

This series contains the first and second drafts of Special Agent 2142.

This series contains papers relating to Japanese Soldiers in World War II.

This series contains essays, short stories, and articles written by Owens.

From a hand-drawn plat map of the Santa Rosa Ranch to a Sheriff's foreclosure notice, this series yields valuable information on the transition of the property from its original owners as well as its lessees and sets-up the scenario for the later problems to be resolved in the courts. This series is comprised of Chattel mortgages, Warranty Deeds, Promissory notes, Deeds, and a Dissolution of Partnership document.

This series of documents paint a picture of the series of events that lead to the succeeding legal conflict. This series is comprised of Pleadings, Foreclosure documents, Chattel documents, letters, telegrams, and, of special interest, a Minute Book documenting a "Special Meeting of the Santa Rosa Ranch Company" in which important stock transfers occurred.

This series is chiefly comprised of court-related documents that depict the intense conflict as well as surprise reversals and new alliances. The documents included in this series are chiefly legal instruments such as suits, answers, pleadings, depositions, transcripts, letters, judgments, opinions, briefs, abstracts, land title transfers, and receipts.

This series is made of three documents that seem to point to what the resolution and outcome was in D. R. Fant's Santa Rosa Ranch litigation.

With the exception of one or two documents, these appear to be the handwritten research notes of legal counsel; most appear probably to be in the handwriting of attorney James Webb. The file envelopes appears to have contained documents used as evidence in legal actions.

This series consists of information from U.S. censuses and Asbury's analysis of population trends from 1790 through 1860.

This series consists of notes, sketches, and plans for Asbury's Texas Revolution Opera. The musical scores for this opera have been separated and are now housed in oversized folders.

This series contains chiefly correspondence and research files on but not limited to the Alamo, Fannin at Goliad, the Twin Sisters, Regulator-Moderator War, White Spirituals, Asbury Family, Woodward Family, Santa Fe Expedition, Congress of Republic of Texas, Texas County Histories, Governor Jim Hogg, Council House Fight, Seige of Bexar, Battles around San Antonio, Conventions of 1836 and 1933, Texas Pioneers, Texas Centennial, History of Texas Roses, Battle of San Jacinto, Mexican War, Texas-Indians,

Other documents included are" Maximal Growth Yield in Plants", "Almonte's Journal of the Mexican Campaign", historical articles and addresses written by S. E. Asbury, documents from Bexar, Spanish and Nacogdoches Archives, Polk County documents and letters, "Pioneer Texan's Previous and After Lives", miscellaneous historical documents, and a list of contents of the cabinet drawers.

This series contains miscellaneous historical documents and articles, a group of assignments prepared for a writing class and a poetry class taken by Asbury at Harvard in 1908, other stories, essays, plays and poems written by Asbury, and a few pieces of correspondence on roses (1934-1942).

This series is located in Box 6. Folders 50-80 contain family correspondence from 1915 to 1959, with folder 81 containing undated correspondence. No family correspondence exists for the years 1947-1951.

This series contains L. W. Kemp's Goliad Personnel Files comprised of seven loose-leaf binders filled with brief biographical sketches of the men stationed at Goliad. These files are incomplete as the binders containing M-O and S-U are missing.

This series contains boxes 01 and 02, and 34 folders in box 03.

This series contains 12 folders in box 03, and boxes 04-06.

This series contains 12 folders in box 07.

This series contains 9 folders in box 07, and boxes 08-09.

This series contains boxes 10 and 11.

This series contains box 12.

These records begin with the personnel files (1929-1972) Turner retrieved from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in 1995. Correspondence about these files includes reference to FHWA personnel killed in the Oklahoma City bombing that year. Turner's Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) reports are arranged in chronological order, as are his BPR correspondence and reports.

S1-01/1-4: Bureau of Public Roads and Federal Highway Administration Personnel Files, 1929-1995 (bulk: 1929-1972)

S1-01/5-14: Bureau of Public Roads Reports, 1930-1939

S1-01/15: Textbooks and Thesis, 1940

S1-01/16-31: Bureau of Public Roads Correspondence and Reports, 1939-1968

As Executive Secretary of both the President's Committee on a National Highway Program (the so-called "Clay Committee") and the Inter-agency Committee, Turner collected administrative materials and correspondence for both committees. Series 2. also includes correspondence, background materials, and reports. Subseries 2.1 contains collected correspondence, background materials, and policy statements on the highway program by interested industry groups, associations, and politicians. The files are arranged alphabetically by the association name. Subseries 2.2 consists of files containing background information on financing the highway program and publicity and public reaction to the program. The files are arranged alphabetically by subject. Subseries 2.3 concludes the series with the official statements and testimonies heard by the Clay Committee, arranged chronologically.

This series is comprised of several subject files, such as a file with internal memoranda about bicycle lanes, and a file that contains notes for speeches Turner made as Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration. A 1973 letter referring to Turner's retirement and materials on Turner's participation in an FHWA 100-year time capsule dedication ceremony on June 14, 1994, are also included.

This series is comprised of 4 folders in box 6 (6/20 through 6/23) containing published writings and official remarks and statements, bound in four volumes.

This series contains subject files collected by Turner on various transportation issues of the day and on the legislation related to his field.

This series is comprised of 9 folders in box 7 (7/18 through 7/26) containing correspondence, certificates, and publicity about a few of the honors received by Turner over the course of his career. Similar material may be located in Series 7 if the award was bestowed by a transportation association.

This series contains correspondence, speeches, and conference materials. Turner belonged to a large number of transportation associations, both formal and informal, from national organizations, such as the Highway Users Federation, to lunch groups such as " The Road Gang." Many of the groups share the same key leaders, an attribute that is especially apparent in the intriguingly entitled "No Name Group."

Immediately upon his retirement from the Federal Highway Administration, Turner was commissioned by the International Road Federation to help conduct a three-year study of 31 urban areas in 14 countries. The information he and co-author Harmer E. Davis gathered from cities in Japan, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States make up the bulk of this series. However, Turner acted as a consultant, both paid and unpaid, for many other agencies and associations. Correspondence, notes, maps, photographs, speeches, and reports on this work.