The collection at the East Texas Research Center consists of miscellaneous loose papers, mostly of records of the San Augustine District Court. The records include criminal and civil cases, promissory notes and accounts, some oaths to the Board of Land Commissioners, estate records, treasurer warrants, tabular statements of schools, letters, and manifests. A detailed inventory is included in the volume San Augustine County, Texas Courthouse Records and Loose Papers 1831-1906, Inventory and Index, available in the ETRC.