The letters in this collection document A. A. Nelson II and Mattie Langston’s courtship and early marriage between 1895 to 1899 and provide a perspective of life in Nacogdoches in the late 19th century.

Typed transcriptions of correspondence, poems and newspaper clippings relating to the Burk and Bone families of Nacogdoches County.

Letters to and from family members and friends with the majoritiy of the letters being from Albert to Lera.

The Henry Brewer Family Papers consist of business and family correspondence; land grant and title papers; deeds, field notes, and plats; tax receipts; accounts, promissory notes and receipts; resolutions; Baptist Church session minutes and other publications; the Brewer Family Bible [too fragile to handle]; and genealogical materials.

Letters, notebooks, lectures, articles, speeches, biographical studies and other papers relating to feuds, rebellions, churches, schools and colleges in San Augustine and Nacogdoches. Includes folklore, family history and sketches on Texans and prominent U.S. and foreign citizens. Includes maps and charts, newspaper clippings on history and world events of 1900-1930. A significant portion of this collection contains George Crocket's original art work.

Correspondence, land documents, legal and financial papers of this San Augustine County family. Family members also lived in Virginia, Ohio, Mississippi and items in the collection relate to those places. Includes correspondence with James Pinckney Henderson, the first Governor of the State of Texas.

The Barnett Family Papers document the personal, business, and religious activities of the Barnett family of Nacogdoches County through correspondence, receipts, contracts, and genealogical materials. The collection also contains records relating to Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church and several generations of the Barnett family, including John Calhoun Barnett and Robert Donnell Barnett.

The Barret Collection contains correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes dating from 1845 to 1914. Materials document Barret's activities and include records concerning the Angelina River clearance, the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson, and the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company.

Karle Wilson Baker (1878–1960) was a Texas author, poet, educator, and literary figure whose works included poetry, fiction, children's literature, and essays inspired by Texas history and the natural world. A prominent member of the Texas literary community, she taught at Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College and received national recognition for works such as Blue Smoke, Dreamers on Horseback, and Star of the Wilderness.

The collection consists primarily of correspondence between Dr. Robert Donnell Bone and his wife, Griselda Minerva Burk Bone, documenting family life and Dr. Bone's Civil War service as Assistant Surgeon of the 12th Texas Volunteer Infantry. Also included are letters from family and friends, Douglass, Texas, post office reports, two poems attributed to Dr. Bone, typescript copies of most documents, and a small group of nineteenth-century newspapers.

These papers include Civil War letters from Henry Curl to his wife, Julia, and one to her brother, Lawrence S. Taylor. The letter to Lawrence is quite long and gives an extremely detailed and interesting account of Henry's experiences in the war.

Abstract: The William Felix Gigliotti Railroad Scrapbooks consist of 20 scrapbooks compiled by William Felix Gigliotti (1893–1958), containing newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and other materials documenting railroads in the United States and Canada. The collection provides valuable information on twentieth-century railroad operations, transportation history, and public interest in the rail industry.