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Box 1

 Container

Contains 848 Results:

Personal letter from Robert W. Smith in Houston to David Rusk in Nacogdoches with speculation on who will win Galveston and Harris counties in the 1841 Texas Presidential election, 6/13/1841

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 27, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 6/13/1841

Letter from Isaac Van Zandt to David Rusk asking him to let the people of Nacogdoches know that he will be in town July 1st to talk about the issues connected with approaching governor’s election, 6/12/1847

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 27, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 6/12/1847

Letter from Thomas J. Jennings at Galveston to David Rusk at Nacogdoches encouraging Rusk to run for U.S. marshal and informing Rusk that he has already written a letter of endorsement for Rusk to Texas’ Senators in Washington, D. C., 2/6/1853*

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 27, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 2/6/1853*

Letter from J. T. White at Nacogdoches to David Rusk informing Rusk that he (White) will not be able to participate in the election because his wife is sick*, 8/3/1854

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 27, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 8/3/1854

Letter from E. P. Moore in Gum Springs, Texas to David Rusk at Nacogdoches musing about the forthcoming judicial election in Nacogdoches and being a teacher, 8/1/1856

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 27, Item: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 8/1/1856

Letter from Jesse Billingsley at Austin to David Rusk at Nacogdoches asking him to examine Thomas J. Rusk’s papers to see if there are any orders from the Battle of San Jacinto in them that illuminate the role of his brother. Billingsley suggests that David Burnet ordered Rusk to San Jacinto as Secretary of War to save the retreating Texas army and make Houston fight, which contradicts Sam Houston’s recent claim in the U.S. Senate that Rusk was at San Jacinto as a friend and subordinate*, 1/10/1860

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 27, Item: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 1/10/1860

Letter from Nathan Allen in Cherokee Co. to David Rusk at Nacogdoches about the genealogy of Thomas Stanford. Allen suggests contacting William Stanford in Pikeville, Marion Co., Alabama for additional information, 5/31/1849

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 5/31/1849

Letter from S. Monroe Hyde at Marshall to David Rusk at Nacogdoches asking Rusk to share the names of settlers on the Tage League near the Sabine River so that Hyde can call them as witnesses in a District Court civil case against James Earp, 1/20/1853

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 1/20/1853

Letter from Madison F. Mitchell in Pickens District, South Carolina to David Rusk at Nacogdoches. Mitchell was a boyhood friend of Rusk and wants to see if Rusk has the Texas address for Mitchell’s uncle Lorenzo C. Pason. Mitchell also talks about the high price of land and slaves in South Carolina, 4/22/1853

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 4/22/1853

Letter from H. Keyes at Quitman to David Rusk at Nacogdoches asking Rusk for John J. Simpson’s date of death. Includes envelope, 11/3/1870

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 11/3/1870

Cover letter from C. Bombarger at Ladonia in Fannin Co. to the Postmaster of Nacogdoches Co. for a note to the sons of David Rusk, 6/24/1874*

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28, Item: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 6/24/1874*

Letter from C. Bombarger at Ladonia in Fannin Co. to David Rusk looking for information about a Mrs. Bascom who ran away from her husband in the 1830s to live with a man named Daniel Davis. He died in 1839. The woman claims she was lawfully married to him and wants his land. Bombarger wants to know if Mrs. Bascom left children in Nacogdoches Co. and, if so, what has become of them, 6/24/1874*

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 28, Item: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 6/24/1874*

Letter from the Taylor and Leland Real Estate Agency at Waco to David Rusk at Nacogdoches asking Rusk if he knows when and where William Hester Patton died, 9/16/1874

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 29, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 9/16/1874

Letter from A. P. Shaford to David Rusk asking for information about people living in San Augustine Co., 7/22/1877

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 29, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 7/22/1877

Postcard from M. D. McCall at Fort Worth to David Rusk at Nacogdoches asking him if he knows the whereabouts of the heirs of Clark A. Wiggins, July 6

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 29, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: July 6

Postcard from M. D. McCall at Fort Worth to David Rusk at Nacogdoches asking him if he knows the whereabouts of the heirs of Henry McEntire, July 7

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 29, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: July 7

Note sent to David Rusk pertaining to Curtina Martinez, Juan Jose Martinez, Harriet L. Brown, and Thomas J. Brown. Includes envelope, Undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 29, Item: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: Event: The Thomas J. Rusk Letters (59 originals, 1 photocopy) were loaned from 6/24/1975 to early 2005.; Event: Purchased by the University 9/26/2016.; Event: Purchased materials received by the ETRC 10/10/2016.; Event: Addendum of donated materials received by the ETRC 10/24/2016.; Event: Addendum of donated materials received by the ETRC 1/23/2017.; Event: Addendum of donated materials received by the ETRC 3/15/2017.

Letter from W. H. Davis in Pickens Co., Alabama to David Rusk in Nacogdoches Co. about the ongoing effects of the Panic of 1837 there and a new romance, 7/5/1840

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 30, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 7/5/1840

Letter from Daniel Lacy at Montgomery to David Rusk at Nacogdoches about Lacy’s family and their shared business interests, 1/1/1841*

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 30, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 1/1/1841*

Letter from W. C. Wright to David Rusk thanking Rusk for taking up some of Wright’s strayed cattle, 10/6/1841

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 30, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 10/6/1841