WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1860
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A1ne1·ican Biog1·avhy, XX, 187; Kittrell, Governors Who Have Been and Othe·r Public 11,Jen of Texas, 149-154; M. 0. Roberts, in Evans' Confederate 11'Iilitary History, XI, 264-266; Galveston News, September 21, 1864, also February 19, 1874.
To B. W. W ALKER 1 Executive Department, Austin, March 19, 1860.
B. W. vValker, Huntsville, Texas Dear Sir: Replying to your favor of the 18th, I would state that it is my desire that you report in full as to the general management of the affai-rs of the Penitentiary during the whole term of Colonel Murray's service, together with all the infor- mation touching any particular acts in his transaction of the business of the institution that you may deem important. Sam Houston. 1 Executive Records, 1859-1861, p. 100, Texas State Library. On Decem- ber 29, 1859, Houston nominated Benjamin W. Walker one of the directors of the State Penitentiary. See Houston to the Texas Senate, December 29, 1859, this volume. T'o WILLIAM w. BARRET 1 Austin, Texas, March 19, 1860. To W. W. Barret, Esq., Sir, I remember James Bar-ret very well. I knew him from boyhood in Virginia, and afterwards boarded with him in Nash- ville, Tenn. At Nacogdoches he told me that he was buying land in Texas for himself and Brother, and I am satisfied that I witnessed some land papers between them and Mr. W. H. Wharton. As to my knowledge of James Bar,.ret, it is among my earliest recollections; and I therefore cannot. be mistaken as to his identity. Sam Houston. 1 Govenio1·s' Letters; also Executive Reco1·ds, 1859-1861, p. 101, Texas State Library. No further information concerning either William W. or James Barret has been found.
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