PREFACE
The circumstances which gave rise to this publication and my own relation to it are recited in the Preface to Volume I, issued in 1938. As the editors anticipated, the publication of Volume I brought to light and made available a number of additional items belonging to the period of that volume. For them, we are indebted chiefly to Mr. ·w. A. Philpott, Jr., Dallas, Texas; Mr. Emil Hurja, National Press Building, Washington, D.C.; l\fr. Thomas W. Streeter, Morristown, New Jersey; Mr. Ike Moore, San Jacinto Museum of History, Houston, Texas; Mr. Al Dealey, Dallas, Texas; and the Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia. Besides these, our appreciation for assistance is due to Mr. Temple H. Morrow, Professor Herbert Gambrell, Mrs. J. R. Irion, Mr. Grant Foreman, Mr. J. E. Taulman, and the Dallas Historical Society. Benefiting by reviews of Volume I, the editors realize that some explanation is necessary concerning the text reproduced in this collection. In general, the typist transcribed the first copy of a document found. Whenever additional copies were found this transcript was collated with them. Always it has been collated with the original autograph copy, when such autograph copy later proved to be available. Similarly, a statement is called for concerning the biographical sketches in the footnotes. There is no authoritative biographical dictionary of Texans and other characters noted in these volumes. Miss Williams is possessed of an enormous fund of information about Texas characters. She has used a wide range of printed and manuscript sources in compiling these sketches. Some of the printed works cited are of questionable merit. Her special knowl- edge has enabled her to correct many of them. When she has had no special knowledge, she has compiled the sketches from such sources as she found available. If some of the sketches contain inaccuracies, as is inevitable, they seem, nevertheless, useful as an index to such printed materials as are accessible concerning the respective subjects. Personally, I think that they are an important contribution toward a biographical dictionary of Texas. It remains to call attention to certain errata pertaining to Volume I. For these we are indebted to Mr. Herbert Davenport, of Brownsville, Texas, and Professor William C. Binkley, of Vanderbilt University, both of whom have a truly awesome knowl- edge of the personalia of the Texas revolution.
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