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Personal Materials
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17 folders
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17/3: Journal, March 22, 1939 - June 13, 1939
Extremely detailed handwritten journal of about 70 pages chronicling a trip Evans took to Brazil to investigate cotton production
17/4: Notes, circa 1955
Handwritten notes and outline by Evans, apparently for an article or speech on cooperatives
17/5: Pocket notebooks, 1940s-1960s
Over 20 pocket-sized notebooks and address books containing a wide variety of notes written by Evans
17/6: Manuscript, March 1995
Draft of narrative, containing photographs, by Evans' friend and biographer, W. N. Stokes, about a trip to Big Bend and a visit to an 1889. Draft for Santa Gertrudis Journal's April issue on Briggs Ranches. Cyndy Cowley sent Evans the manuscript for corrections before it was published. Evans made notes and corrections on the draft in red ink.
17/7: Address Pages, undated
Names and addresses in Evans' handwriting
17/8: Poems, Quotations, and anecdotes, 1921-1988, undated (1 of 2)
-Miscellaneous anecdotes, quotations, some handwritten on scraps of paper by Evans, poems, newspaper clippings, and typed poetical quotations as well as notes about poems collected by Evans; also a mock letter from the State Comptroller's office concerning reimbursement for the castration and accidental death of a TAMU Dairy bull
17/9: Poems, Quotations and anecdotes, 1989-1995 (2 of 2)
17/10: Published books, booklets, and brochures collected by Evans, 1921 (1 of 2)
Two small paperback books: Son, Remember, by the 75th Anniversary Committee of Texas A&M University, a story about Richard Coke; and The Romance of the Ranchos by Palmer Conner, a story about large and/or historical ranches of Los Angeles County, California, containing illustrations and map insert; 1921 Longhorn Yearbook; 1958 phone directory for Farm Credit Banks of Houston; Federal Land Bank of Houston History; brochure stating mission and listing members of the Philosophical Society of Texas; also, a menu for a Society dinner apparently attended by Evans in the 1960s
17/11: Published books, booklets, and brochures collected by Evans, 1939-1961 (2 of 2)
17/12: Calling cards, undated
17/13: Card, undated
Addressed to [Katchie?] enclosing an embroidered handkerchief
17/14: Certificates and Proclamations, 1936-1999, undated
Various documents commemorating honors given to Evans
17/15: Draft cards for Evans from the U.S. Selective Service, 1942
17/16: Pocket-knife; small, engraved, undated
17/17: Lenses for eyeglasses, undated
17/18: Library card, 1970
17/19: Postcards, circa 1955
Advertising postcards by Schiwetz from National Farm Loan Association. A reprint of Chapter XXIV of a Ranchman's Recollections by Frank S. Hastings. Forward states that Evans had it reprinted and sent to "special friends" during Christmas of 1980.