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Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. Mary Austin Holley: The Texas Diary, 1835-1838 0.58. Book.

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First Edition. Illustrations Very nice copy in slightly darkened dust-wrapper. From the Library of Kenneth Hopkins, with his autograph signature in red ink on the front free end-paper.

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Hardcover. Etat : As New. xii,[2],92pp. plus folding map. Folio. Three-quarter calf and cloth, t.e.g. Fine. Signed and numbered by Ron Tyler on the colophon. A handsome reprint of this classic work, of which Thomas W. Streeter said, "For a long time I have regarded it as one of the Texas classics." Beautifully designed by Thomas Whitridge on a folio format, this edition is limited to 340 copies. It is printed in Monotype Bell on Arches mold-made paper. The map, on lighter paper, is tipped in. Ron Tyler has contributed an introduction as well as his signature. Published by our Overland Press. CLARK III:56 (ref). HOWES H593 (ref). REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 60 (ref).

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Each 4pp, on folded quarto sheets with integral address leaves. A nice pair of letters by Holley (1784-1846), the cousin of Stephen F. Austin and an important early writer and promoter of Texas. The first letter is written by Holley from New Orleans, shortly after leaving Lexington, Kentucky after her husband Horace Holley had left his position as President of Transylvania University. Recounting a dinner with the Mayor of New Orleans, she writes: "it was so perfectly French, there were so many dishes & such strange ones. A turkey without any bones in it, & covered with jelly. No Yankee could ever have guessed what it was. A dish of little birds, looking like so many mice, I found very nice. Any common mouth could have taken one at a mouthful." After detailing the other guests at the dinner, she continues by discussing the reason for their trip to New Orleans, that is, to explore the possibility of founding a new school there and moving from Kentucky: "I knew the hint of your staying would please you. I begin to think in earnest that we shall give up our expedition. & I hear all the disappointment will on one account of the hope which animates you. It will be nothing for you to come here, & we can go west or east every summer, besides we shall have a prospect of growing rich, which is agreeable as any prospect whatever." The letter next turns to her daughter's engagement: "He is a very good match for her, & I freely give my consent, tell her, since we may become neighbors. The young "Soldier's Bride" has not yet returned to receive the malediction of her amiable father, but her gallant spouse will have to be on duty before long. I hope he will be well armed. The ole man you know was a soldier, & I am told that he boasts to this day of having kept up military discipline in his family. I have not seen any of the family since the elopement. I was there the very day it happened." The letter continues with a discussion of social reformers Robert Dale Owen and Fanny Wright, who were in New Orleans at the time, the latter suffering from malaria which she had contracted at her colony Nashoba, founded to educate and emancipate slaves: "The celebration Miss Wright and a son of Mr Owen are here, and you may suppose we have plenty of conversation as they are as good talkers as your father. I have so much interest & curiosity about it that I do not leave the parlour long at a time. They are persons of very simple manners & character, & great intelligence, but of course great enthusiasts, thinking of nothing but reforming the World, an object, certainly great enough to occupy them. They sail for France in a few days, in search of health, both of them suffering with intermittents not having passed the period of acclimation. Miss Wright is by no means an ill-looking woman. She is very tall, has a fine classical head, with short curly hair, fair & soft like little William's. She is a very good resemblance of the head of Antinous. The expression of her countenance is very agreeable, especially when she is animated in conversation. She is not unlike Elisa Townsend of Boston. I am very glad of this opportunity of seeing her." The letter closes with a brief mention of a piracy trial, the comings and goings of various acquaintances, and presents she has purchased. The second letter is written from Boston four years later, following the death of her husband, while working on her manuscripts, gathering subscriptions and preparing her first publication, a biography of her husband titled A Discourse on the Genius and Character of the Reverend Horace Holley (1828): "I have got over all my depression now, and go on very well. . I have since been as busy as I could copying & improving my manuscripts, which in another week will have in the prep. They have already begun with the Discourse. I feel all encouragement. Mrs. Stewart has sent me her paper from Washington with 72. The foreigners subscribed by fives & sixes. To that it will go all over the World." The remainder of the chatty letter concerns various acquaintances, a scandal involving the Livingston family, the weather, church, a passing reference to her brother (and early Texas settler) Henry Austin etc. Less than a year after this letter, Austin became governess to the Hermogene Labranche family in Louisiana and soon after visited Austin's colony (1831) and authored two important works on Texas (1833 and 1836). [WITH:] Autograph letter signed by Horace Holley, to his daughter, then 9-years-old, praising her letter to him: ". You will be a very good writer soon, and will be able to express yourself handsomely on paper. Your understanding is clear, your sentiments are pure, your heart is affectionate, and your education is in the course of constant improvement. The art of composing and interesting and agreeable letter is desirable and important, and I have no doubt that you will excel in it ." Washington, D.C.: March 30, 1818. 4pp, including address leaf. Browned and stained, silked. [AND WITH:] President Holley Not the Transylvania University, in a Letter to William Gibbes Hunt, Esq. in Consequence of the Attacks Made by Him in its "Appeal," Published in the Western Monitor of this place, March 2d, 1824. By Forthcoming. Lexington, Ky: Printed by J. M. M'Calla, 1824. 19, [1]pp. 8vo. Later wrappers, front wrapper detached and chipped. Text browned and toned. Shaw & Shoemaker 16167. Usual folds, toned, some darkening along the folds Each 4pp, on folded quarto sheets with integral address leaves.

First edition. First edition. Handcolored folding map. viii,410pp. 12mo. This is Mrs. Holley's second book on Texas, intended as a practical and informative guide for emigrant's to the area. Despite the title, which is similar to the author's Baltimore 1833 book, this is a completely different work. Jenkins in Basic Texas Books calls it "a much more important book." Dedicated to Austin, included herein is a general history of Texas to May 5, 1836, a printing of the Texas and Mexican constitutions, Stephen Austin's farewell address of March 7, and specific information regarding settlements, towns, business and banking matters, transportation and communication facilities, etc. While her earlier book served to promote the enthusiastic interest of prospective emigrants to Texas, Mrs. Holley in this work provides the hard facts of what they would find there. As Stephen F. Austin's cousin, she was in a position to know. "In addition to the San Jacinto reports, it includes the first book printing of the Texas Declaration of Independence, of the Republic of Texas Constitution, of Travis' famous letter from the Alamo, of Austin's Louisville Address of 1836, and other key documents of the revolution. It includes the full text of the Mexican Constitution of 1824 and translations of the colonization laws, as well as chapters on money and banking, the mails, trade, natural history, society and manners, religion and Indians. It includes the best physical description of Texas up to that time, and a clear and concise analysis of the colonization and land grant system and of Austin's colonization activities" (Basic Texas Books). The Hooker "Map of the State of Coahuila and Texas" was published several times in the 1830s, with revisions to reflect the changing face of Texas. Based on the mappings by Stephen F. Austin and David Burr, the map appeared as a separate ca. 1833 (see Streeter 1136), in Holley's 1833 book (Streeter 1135), and in A Visit to Texas (Streeter 1155) before appearing here. Each version shows additions and changes to reflect the events as the Revolution unfolded. This issue particularly noteworthy, with the land grants entirely hand colored and with Thorn's grant stamped "now Filisola", among other changes. The map shows not only the geography of the Republic, but the location of Indian tribes and villages and herds of of wild horses, cattle, and buffalo. Taliaferro, Cartographic Sources in the Rosenberg Library 241: "Hooker's map is one of the earliest maps of Texas to show all of Texas to the Arkansas River, including the Panhandle." This copy with early provenance to Henry Moses Spalding (1854-1916) founder and President of the the First National Bank of Denton, TX. Streeter Texas 1207; Raines, p.116; Howes H593, "aa"; Sabin 32528; Graff, Fifty Texas Rarities 15; Basic Texas Books 94; Reese, Best of the West 60 (note); Vandale, Texianameter 88 Publisher's cloth, remnants of paper spine label, worn. Repairs to separations of the folding map. Provenance: H. M. Spalding, Denton TX (ink ownership stamp on title); James P. Waggener (booklabel); Ted Lusher (booklabel). Housed in a clamshell box Handcolored folding map. viii,410pp. 12mo.