present location of most documents should be relatively permanent. Chesler Kielman's magnificanl The University of Texas: A Guide to the Historical i'rlanuscripts Collections in the University of Texas Library is certainly the best guide of its kind in exislence, describing in considerable detail 2340 separate collections that run into millions of individual documents, and containing useful appendices and a 173-page index. John Kinney has instituted an excellent program of publishing guides to individual collections within the archives holdings of the Texas Slate Library. Gradually the major collections of original Texas historical documents are being permanently organized and catalogued, making the difficult task of localing specific documents easier and swifter. The major printed sources arc The A ustin Papers, edited by Eugene C. Barker and published in a confusing sequence by the American Historical Association and University of Texas Press, 1924,1928; The Papers of Jlllirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, edited hy Charles A. Gulick and others and published by the Texas State Library, 1940-1945; The Writings of Sam Houston, edited by Amelia Williams and Eugene C. Barker and published by the University of Texas press, 1938; and especially Official Correspond- ence of the Texan Revolution, edited by William C. Binkley and published by the American Historical Association in 1936. Material from several major manuscript collections is pub- lished here for the first time, particularly the Thomas J. Rusk Papers and Bexar Archives from the University of Texas Archives, the Nacogdoches Archives from the Texas State Library, and the Thomas J. Green Papers from the University of North Carolina Library. Most of the Bexar Archives were undergoing microfilming during our compilation period and we were forced lo use card files and copies in many instances, resulting in an inordinate number of citation entries rather than full printings of the letters. All of the above collections deserve full separate publication. By far the most significant group of papers published here, however, is the Andrew Jackson Houston Collection. During the six years of gathering materials for this work l had known of the existence of this collection, but had no idea what it contained. As we neared press time in early 1973, l was graciously granted permission by the family to examine and make use of these papers. Jt turned out that the collection consisted of the personal correspondence files of Sam Houston during almost his entire career, never before examined by any historians except W.C. Crnne, Andrew J. Houston himself, and perhaps Henderson Yoakum. The nearly five hundred entries in our work that come from this
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