Introduction
This work should be useful for the following reasons: (1) it prints several thousand important letters and documents on the Texas Revolution never published before in any form; (2) it prints hundreds of letters and documents that were printed during the revolutionary era, but which have hitherto been virtually lost for historical purposes because of the rarity of the original printing or the obscurity of its location; and (3) it includes all material within its scope from all sources including modern works, thus presenting for the first time the full primary source material on the Texas Revolution, in chronological sequence. The plan of the work is to include all letters and documents relating to the Texas Revolution written between January l, 1835, and the inaugural of Sam Houston as President of the Republic of Texas on October 22, 1836. All material known to the editors has been included, with the exception of letters and documents of a personal or business nature not related to the Revolution. The entries are of three kinds: (1) material printed in full; (2) material printed in part; and (3) citations of material. We have allem pted lo he as broad as possible in our interpretation of related materials, considering most letters and documents of the period to have some potential intelligence value if written in Texas or hy a Texas military figure. Some letters have been included only in part, either because the bulk of the letter "as non-related or, mcm~ often, because we were forced to quote from a
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