IF RESEARCH BE THE SELECTION of bones of information from one stack to reassemble them in another mound, my first acknowledgment of gratitude must be to librarians and archivists who assisted in the digging for materials which they considered neither dead nor dry. My work was facilitated by co-operation far beyond the line of duty by the staffs of the Library of the University of Texas, the Archives Division of the Texas State Library, and the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress. Mr. Francis L. Berkeley, Jr., curator of manuscripts in the Alderman Library of the University of Virginia; Miss Pauline Cone of the Manuscripts Department of Duke University Library; Mr. Robert W. Bingham, director of the Buffalo Historical Society; and Dr. George W. Pierson of Yale University have also been helpful in making research materials available.
My obligation to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas is great. They gave not only encouragement but material assistance through the award to me for two years of the Clara Driscoll Scholarship for Research in Texas History. The scholarship provided my opportunity to work for a time at the Library of Congress.
Mr. D. C. Arthur granted permission to quote from his M.A. thesis. Oxford University Press, the Arthur H. Clark Company, Barnes and Noble, Doubleday and Company, the Ohio Historical Society, Longmans, Green and Company, the Broadman Press, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Alfred A. Knopf, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the Department of History of Randolph-Macon College of Ashland, Virginia, A. C. McClurg and Company, and the American Historical Association have been generous in granting permission to quote from their publications.
Dr. Herbert Gambrell of Southern Methodist University dealt kindly with the manuscript and gave unlimited permission to repeat what his Anson Jones had to say of Old Sam. Similarly, Mr. Marquis James said to quote whatever you read from The Raven And I read it often and at length and it was good. Dr. Barnes Lathrops keen reading eye assisted in eliminating some of the errors; for those that are gone I am grateful. Dr. J. H. Bennett, Jr., took time off from pursuing English history on the home ground to cut for Sams sign in British newspapers and documents. I am thankful as well to family and friends and fellow students who bent a willing ear and often queried, Have you seen ?
In Maryville, Tennessee, Mrs. Charles Timmons and Miss Inez Burns were gracious as hostesses and have been encouraging correspondents. Mrs. Madge W. Hearne and Mr. Temple Houston Morrow, grandchildren of General Houston, have been interested and generous to supply material.
My deepest obligations are to Dr. Walter Prescott Webb, who gave the work a name and motivated its publication, and to Dr. Eugene Campbell Barker, who suggested the topic, directed the dissertation, reread the manuscript and pared it, and without whom it could not have been.
LLERENA FRIEND
University of Texas
May, 1954
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