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[Agreement for sale of Hercules, an enslaved boy] (open access)

[Agreement for sale of Hercules, an enslaved boy]

An agreement for the sale of Hercules, an enslaved boy who was "eleven or twelve years old." Hercules was sold by enslaver Ephraim M. Guthrie to enslaver Thomas Graham. The agreement names Hercules a "slave for life."
Date: September 29, 1847
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Bill of sale for purchase of slave by E.M. Pease] (open access)

[Bill of sale for purchase of slave by E.M. Pease]

A bill of sale for the purchase by E.M. Pease of a slave named Tim or Tom.
Date: September 1, 1849
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Note secured by deed of trust on slaves] (open access)

[Note secured by deed of trust on slaves]

A note secured “by deed of trust on negroes.”
Date: September 18, 1849
Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence to E.M. Pease from Sam Houston] (open access)

[Correspondence to E.M. Pease from Sam Houston]

An “autograph” letter from Sam Houston to E.M. Pease. Includes typewritten transcription of the letter.
Date: September 5, 1851
Creator: Houston, Sam
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for transportation of slaves] (open access)

[Receipt for transportation of slaves]

A receipt for the transportation of "the negro girl Emily and child belonging to Hon. E.M. Pease."
Date: September 15, 1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence to Governor E.M. Pease from Henry A. Wise, governor of Virginia] (open access)

[Correspondence to Governor E.M. Pease from Henry A. Wise, governor of Virginia]

A letter to Governor E.M. Pease from Henry A. Wise, governor of Virginia, regarding the protection of the “honor and interests” of slaveholding states. Includes typewritten transcription of the letter.
Date: September 18, 1856
Creator: Wise, Henry A.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Funeral receipt] (open access)

[Funeral receipt]

A receipt for the "funeral of [E.M. Pease’s] child," Anne Marshall Pease.
Date: September 19, 1862
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to President Andrew Johnson] (open access)

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to President Andrew Johnson]

A draft of a letter to President Andrew Johnson from E.M. Pease, who discusses issues related to the Civil War.
Date: September 4, 1865
Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Post-Civil-War loyalty oath signed by Judge J.B.M. McFarland] (open access)

[Post-Civil-War loyalty oath signed by Judge J.B.M. McFarland]

A document in which J.B.M. McFarland, a judge of the first judicial district, swears that he “neither sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatsoever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States”; a handwritten explanation follows.
Date: September 24, 1867
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence to Lucadia Pease from E. M. Pease] (open access)

[Correspondence to Lucadia Pease from E. M. Pease]

A letter to Lucadia Pease from E.M. Pease, who discusses Reconstruction.
Date: 1868-09-18/1868-09-27
Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease] (open access)

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease]

The seventh in a series of eleven letters to Lucadia Pease from E.M. Pease—in them he discusses, among other things, yellow-fever and typhoid epidemics.
Date: September 5, 1870
Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease] (open access)

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease]

The eighth in a series of eleven letters to Lucadia Pease from E.M. Pease—in them he discusses, among other things, yellow-fever and typhoid epidemics.
Date: September 14, 1870
Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease] (open access)

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease]

The ninth in a series of eleven letters to Lucadia Pease from E.M. Pease—in them he discusses, among other things, yellow-fever and typhoid epidemics.
Date: September 19, 1870
Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence to Beriah Graham from Texas Governor Edmund J. Davis] (open access)

[Correspondence to Beriah Graham from Texas Governor Edmund J. Davis]

A letter to Beriah Graham from Texas Governor Edmund J. Davis, who asks Graham to attend a conference regarding "the Indians on our frontier."
Date: September 15, 1873
Creator: Davis, Edmund J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Athol Estes Porter Autograph book (open access)

Athol Estes Porter Autograph book

Autograph album belonging to Athol Estes, includes 10-line two stanza poem. First letters of first five lines acrostically spell Athol (first letters of lines) and Estes (last letters of lines). Signed "W.S.P."
Date: September 25, 1885
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from O. Henry to Belle Palm] (open access)

[Letter from O. Henry to Belle Palm]

Letter detailing programme for a musical event to be held on October 1, 1886, in which Belle Palm is on the program and O. Henry is the Musical Director.
Date: September 23, 1886
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Lonesome Road (open access)

The Lonesome Road

A short story set in Texas.
Date: September 1903
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calloway's Code (open access)

Calloway's Code

A newspaper staff tries to decipher a code sent by a reporter abroad.
Date: September 1906
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
"What You Want" (open access)

"What You Want"

A short story about a wealthy man and a hat-cleaner in New York City.
Date: September 1908
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Crucible (open access)

The Crucible

Three-stanza poem by O. Henry. "O. Henry's last poem...One of two poems found in a notebook after his death."
Date: September 1910
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
O. Henry's Last Story (open access)

O. Henry's Last Story

Partially finished short story about a criminal on death row. O. Henry was unable to complete this story before his death. Story illustrated with facsimiles of the original manuscript.
Date: September 1910
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
Law and Order (open access)

Law and Order

Short story set on a ranch in Texas.
Date: September 1910
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Octopus Marooned (open access)

The Octopus Marooned

Short story set in Texas.
Date: September 1911
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Independent: O. Henry and the Patriot (open access)

The Independent: O. Henry and the Patriot

"Mr. Steger [O. Henry's] literary executor, made a trip to Texas not long ago in search of the early work of O. Henry and some of the material he gathered is presented here."
Date: September 5, 1912
Creator: Steger, Harry Peyton, 1883-1913
Object Type: Article
System: The Portal to Texas History