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.

Three $0.25 Postage Stamps commemorating Wyoming

Two issues of Gilcrease magazine

Far Side Comic Strip. December 15, 1993 (2 copies)

Far Side Comic Strip. February 25, 1994

Far Side Comic Strip. September 21

Fall/Winter 1998. Nebraska Humanities, Volume 8, No. 2

The Gulf Coast Lumberman, Vol. 44, No. 23. March 1, 1957. Article on page 20, "Early Sawmiller Found Horsepower too Slow, Affleck Converted to Steam."

Agricultural History, Vol. 31, No. 3. July, 1957.
Page 29, quote from Affleck's Southern Rural Almanac. "A Crop Control Skeptic of 1852."
Page 40, article "Thomas Affleck: Missionary to the Planter, the Farmer, and the Gardner." By Robert W. Williams.

see 3/1 for the original Dallas Times Herald newspaper where the article was copied from

"Texas looks to its heritage", by Ruth Morgan. Reprinted from ANTIQUES Magazine, June 1954. The Texas Aggie 1960. (see 3/1 and 3/2)

see 3/2 for the original The Houston Post newspaper where the article was copied from

see 3/1 for the original TEXAS Houston Chronicle Magazine where the article was copied from

Some titles include numerous copies of the items below:
1) Washington Post, July 4, 1971 “Lifestyles Section” article entitled: “Meditation in Motion” (containing at least one photo of Mr. Smith leading the group.
2) Washington Post Magazine, December 25, 1983 article entitled: “The Kung Fooey of Self Defense”, by Robert Denny (including one photo of Mr. Smith)
3) Washington Star Sunday Magazine, October 11, 1964 article entitled: “Relaxed Discipline” (including four photos of Mr. Smith)
4) Y-Line (YMCA News Notes), January-February 1982, article entitled: “T’ai-Chi: The Gentle Exercise”, by Warren Conner

Agricultural History Vol. 31, No. 3. July, 1957. Contains article "Thomas Affleck: Missionary to the Planter, the Farmer, and the Gardner."

Handwritten copy of obituary of Thomas Affleck as appeared in Dallas Weekly Herald, January 16, 1869. Photocopies, 2 leaves.

Obituary of Thomas Affleck, Houston Telegraph. January 1869. Photocopies, 2 leaves.

Obituary of Thomas Affleck, from a Cincinnati, Ohio paper. January 1869. Photocopy, 1 leaf.

Jacobs, John C. [The New Years Creek Settlers Assn.] to Thomas Affleck. January 22, 1986. TLS, 2 leaves. With original envelope.

Photographic negative of "Ingleside" Thomas Affleck's first plantation, in Natchez, Miss.

Various speeches/articles relating to cotton industry, mortgaged farms, Texas agriculture in general, agriculture as a vocation, trends in agricultural education, Texas A & M during World War II.

"Texas Looks to its Heritage" by Ruth Morgan [reprinted from Antiques Magazine, June 1954]

Texas, Houston Chronicle Magazine, November 9, 1969

"Buck Schiwetz turns 80… His mind and his art", SUNDAY, Dallas Times Herald. October 8, 1978

Texas, Houston Chronicle Magazine, December 28, 1986

The Texas Aggie, October 1960 (enlargement of page 12 only)

"The Texas of Buck Schiwetz", The Texas Star, The Houston Post, October 1, 1972

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