Personal letters of early Texians are a valuable source for research and realization.
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The San Jacinto Museum of History’s manuscript collections provide powerful insight into Texas's past. Approximately 160 linear feet of manuscripts in the Museum's collections include:

• Codices
• Colonial grants and conveyances
• Papal bulls
• Royal cedulas and viceregal decrees
• Acts of the Council of the Indies
• Orders of the Inquisition
• Chronicles and reports of the conquistadors and missionaries' entradas
• Records of haciendas, pueblos, convents, presidios, and colleges
• Documents pertaining to the Spanish and Manila galleons and of the Navy of the Republic of Texas, schedules of taxation, mining regulations and manifestos of political juntas
• Journals and diaries
• Correspondence relating to the colonial period of Texas, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and life in late 19th century Texas
• Scrapbooks, photograph albums, and autograph albums
• Ledgers and prescriptions
• Tax receipts, deed records, and surveyor's sketches
• Official government records
• Formal correspondence of great historical significance

The listing of births and deaths found in a family Bible provide valuable genealogical information.
San Jacinto Museum of History © 2003

From a grant by Queen Isabella of Spain (1502) to letters from a Civil War soldier to a brief history of the U.S.S. Houston in World War II—these pieces of the past put America’s memories right in front of you! Schedule an appointment today for these fascinating sources of research.