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Austin Public Library      List of WHITIS PAPERS        AUSTIN-TRAVIS COUNTY
                           Donor: Miss Mary Bell           COLLECTION


DIARIES of Griffith Rogan, 5 vol., 1854
  [Handwritten note: Found these diaries in Aunt G's basement - our
  great grand father's]

Business Records of Rufus Whitis (Bill file, 1879-1880)
   [Handwritten note: - family household accounts]

MAPS: 2 of area north of College Hill; 1 of areas patented to Jaynes, to Frud,
    to M.B. Lamar  [Handwriten note: laying out of streets by grandpa.]

NEWSPAPER, "American-Statesman", Oct, 22, 1939 - Story of our grandfather.

DEEDS: State of Texas to M.B. Lamar, Fe. 10,, 1846 (No 92); Banks to Burleson,
   Jan. 1, 1866, (terms: 1600 acres in exchange for 5500 pounds lint cotton);
   Maedgen to Jas. H Raymond and E. M. Pease, 1869; Quit claim deed: T. C.
    Osbourne to J. J. Manor; field notes: Rufus C. Burleson Tract No. 3.

CONTRACTS: J.J. Manor and Sam Henderson, freedman, Webberville, Feb. 18, 1867;
   J.J. Manor and Republic of Texas, authorization to operate store, 1845.

RECEIPTS FOR: State and County Tax Receipt, 1853, mad out to Gen'l Harney; Hill
   and Hill to Mrs. Whitis, 1899 (groceries); A.B. Shepherd to J.B. Brenert (?)
   Co.,  1851 (cotton shipment); subscripton to "Statesman," 1906; subscription
   to "Christian Observer", 1859.

NOTICES: Estray sale, 1860; to give right of way in Webberville.

LETTERS: Mrs. Whitis to son C.W. Whitis Jr. re father's life (copy of); to 
    "Maria" from "Mary" re
    trip to Mexico; to Mrs. Julia A. Manor from W.H. Gossett (1869, Rock Island
    Military Prison, Ill.); to T. Rogan from Celeus Price re hiring a slave, 
    1862.

[Handwritten note covering DEEDS, CONTRACTS, RECEIPTS FOR, NOTICES, and LETTERS
above: Historic bits of all Kinds, which I found _____ the ___ paper.)

WHITIS SCHOOL: Catalogs, 1900 thru 1920 (1918 not included); diploma signed by
   faculty.

INVITATIONS AND DANCE PROGRAMS: Wedding, 1893; Banquets: 2 Beta Theta Pi, 1890,
   1, 1988, 1 clas 1890; 6th anniverary Rusk and Athenaeum Societies, 1889;
   Univ. Hop Club, Turner Hall, 1887; U. of T., June 20, 1988.

BOOKLETS: 50th anniversary 1st Presbytarian Church; 25 anniversary of pastorate   of Dr. E. B. Wright; 1910 Season's Greetings, American national Bank; Austin
   Art League Yearbook, 1931-32; Ballet Russe program, DEC ___ 1916 (with 
   Nijinsky) Souvenir of Galveston Storm, September 8, 1900.

PICTURES: _Portraits_ of Mr. Whitis;  Mrs. Whitis; Mollie; Gertrude; their
    niece, Mary Bell; Mrs. T. P. Whitis (enlarged kodak).  _Groups_: 
    watermellon party; group in yard; interior group of Mrs. Whitis, 
    Gertrude, Mary Key; five girls.  _Whitis School_: 2 views of Whitis home;
    Dormitory Row; 1906 graduating class; 2 groups tudents; 6 Mayfete. _Misc._:    altar at 1st Prsbyterian Church, Dr. E. B. Wright and assistant; Mr. and 
    Mrs. Joseph Galbraith.

PICTURES: THOMAS P. WHITIS COLLECTION
   _Album_ containing about 100 views.  Misc.: Unmounted, 180 views; churches,
   5 Central Christian , 1 St. Austin's, 1 St. Martin's, 1 1st Baptist, 
   1 Presbyterian, 2 Gregg House, 1 interior St. David's Parish house; 
    Masonic building (4); 1 Congress Avenue; 3 S. Edward's; 2 misc.

[Handwritten Note: Aunt Gertrude requested me to give them _my_ oil painting
- a llandscape - to the Austin Pub. Library in memory of her father.  It now is hanging in the main lobby of the library]

[The handwritten notes were probably by Miss Mary Bell]