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collection, because of their particular significance and because of being hitherto virtually unknown, should be of immense interest to students of every facet of the Texas Revolution. I owe a great debt to my friend Houston Daniel and to his father Price Daniel, Sr., for obtaining permission for me to use this collection. Certainly the most exciting moments of my career as a historian came when I was first permitted lo examine these papers, highlighted by my first perusal of the December 1, 1835, letter from Bonham to Houston. ~!any institutions and individuals assisted us in this project, and I wish especially to thank Dr. Dorman H. Winfrey, Director of the Texas State Library; Dr. Harry H. Ransom, Chancellor Emeritas of the University of Texas; Dr. Chester Kielman of the University of Texas Library; John Kinney of the Texas State Archives; Archibald Hanna of Yale; as well as Richard Santos, Robert E. Davis, Dr. and i\lrs. ~lalcolm D. McLean, Donna J. Toups, Susan Hodgeson, Robert Helberg, Erlene Hill, my wife Maureen, and especially my father, J. Holmes Jenkins, who did all of the layout work and miraculously kept all the various papers together through a major fire and two moves to new locations. It has been a great pleasure working on this project with Gen. Jay .Matthews, a pleasure which increased to utter delight when he volunteered to do the entire index himself.
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Austin, Texas March 2, 1973
John H. Jenkins General Editor
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