Personal Correspondence

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TxAM-CRS 590-1

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Personal Correspondence

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  • 1949-1999 (Creation)

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3 boxes

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This series consists mainly of social and informal correspondence, including letters, greetings, and Christmas cards. Also present are spiral-bound guest notebooks containing names and contact information for people who visited Evans at his various ranches through the years. Also included with their related correspondence, is an annotated draft of the foreword composed by Evans for the biography of Gus Wortham, Gus Wortham: Portrait of a Leader, written by Fran Dressman (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994).

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