Greeting card from Bianca to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She thanks him for sending over his plays, but regrets to inform him that she has been unable to read them yet. She hopes to see him again in the future.

Greeting card from Stephanie to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. On the inside, she has written a personal message thanking him for sharing his spirit, and hopes that they can work together again. The front cover shows an illustration of a pink flower.

Greeting card from Rose to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She is happy about a visit paid to her by one of Houston's friends. She is sick but sure that she will be back in good health within about four weeks. The front of the card has been printed with a photograph of an elaborate floral arrangement inside a wicker basket.

Painting consists of white, black, and tan brushstrokes, smeared and scraped. Two gradation motifs float vertically in the center of the canvas.

The majority of the abstract painting consists of black and white brushstrokes, smeared and scraped. Across the uppermost center edge of the canvas is a color strip of nine different colors.

The drawing consists of a grid pattern drawn in graphite and India ink splattered across the surface.

Large white, black, and tan brushstrokes run vertically while a small red and blue/brown horizontal brushstrokes highlight the center of the canvas.

Predominately black brushstrokes with some white and beige streaks vertically placed on the canvas with a color strip of red, beige, and white runs horizontally along the uppermost edge of the canvas.

Vertical black brushstrokes are predominate with some streaks of white. Flanking the right and left edges of the canvas are gradations of blue and red strips of color painted in short horizontal strokes.

Painting consists of mostly black vertical brushstrokes with some white streaks. Bits of red and orange are blended in some small spots. There are three narrow, vertical, color strips, strokes painted horizontally, scattered around the center of the canvas.

The drawing consists of a grid drawn in graphite with each corner marked by cross marks. Foiling this pattern is a series of marks created from bean pods that had been dipped in ink and slapped across the surface of the paper.

The drawing consists of a grid pattern drawn in graphite and India ink squirted and splattered across the surface.

Greeting card from Bianca Roberts to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. Inside the card, she has written a short note about how wonderful of an experience it was to work with him. She offers her help in the future. Two small paper receipts have been included, but no reason for them is given in Bianca's note.

Postwar sketches of life as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese at Hintok, Thailand, 1942-44, created by John Wisecup, Marine Corps veteran and a survivor of the sinking of the cruiser USS Houston. Bridge-building details; "Pack of Cards" bridge; Japanese cruelties and atrocities; tropical diseases; burial details. Includes six leaves of a poem titled, "Saga of Bamboo Jim," an introduction, and a foreword.

Thank you card from Ms. Erna to Sterling Houston, prominent San Antonio playwright. She thanks him for all his help and wishes the world were made up of people like him. The front of the card shows a wooden wheelbarrow brimming with flowers and two overgrown butterflies.

Painting consists of black, white, and beige brushstrokes scraped and blended in equal quantities. On the far right edge of the canvas, a gradation from white to black is painted in long horizontal bands.

Brushstrokes of black, white, and beige are smeared and scraped together creating a patterned background upon which, in the center, is a white to black gradation of horizontal brushstrokes.

Painting of peach, brown and gray female portrait; 3/4ths view. Raised gray triangle shapes throughout clothing.

Black, white and beige brushstrokes create a patterned background upon which several white to black gradation motifs float.

Black, beige, and white brushstrokes are scattered evenly on the background of the painting creating a patterned surface upon which a large white to black gradation floats in the center of the canvas.

The abstract painting consists of shades of tan, white, black and gray with two bars of gradations floating on the surface, one lower edge and one center right.