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Contains 25 Collections and/or Records:
(TL) Cooper K. Ragan to Andrew F. Muir. Ragan thanks Muir for sending a reprint of his article, “The Free Negro in Harris County, Texas.”, May 16, 1955
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Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Consists of correspondence (25 letters) between Cooper K. Ragan and Rice University history professor Andrew F. Muir. The majority of the correspondence deals with comments on Muir’s published articles and papers, historical information, criticisms of others’ works, and mention of meetings and programs of the Texas Historical Association and the Houston Civil War Roundtable. Two letters, written by Muir, are handwritten, signed. The last two letters (January 30 and 31, 1969) mention Muir’s ill...
Dates:
May 16, 1955
(TLS) Andrew F. Muir to Cooper K. Ragan. Muir informs Ragan of an essay he published in Civil War History and in Southwest Review. Also mentions an upcoming meeting of the Houston Civil War Round Table. , January 5, 1959
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Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Consists of correspondence (25 letters) between Cooper K. Ragan and Rice University history professor Andrew F. Muir. The majority of the correspondence deals with comments on Muir’s published articles and papers, historical information, criticisms of others’ works, and mention of meetings and programs of the Texas Historical Association and the Houston Civil War Roundtable. Two letters, written by Muir, are handwritten, signed. The last two letters (January 30 and 31, 1969) mention Muir’s ill...
Dates:
January 5, 1959
(TLS) Andrew F. Muir to Cooper K. Ragan. Muir expresses appreciation for Ragan’s personal library. He also mentions an article he published in the Texas Folklore Society. , January 16, 1953
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Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Consists of correspondence (25 letters) between Cooper K. Ragan and Rice University history professor Andrew F. Muir. The majority of the correspondence deals with comments on Muir’s published articles and papers, historical information, criticisms of others’ works, and mention of meetings and programs of the Texas Historical Association and the Houston Civil War Roundtable. Two letters, written by Muir, are handwritten, signed. The last two letters (January 30 and 31, 1969) mention Muir’s ill...
Dates:
January 16, 1953
(TL) Cooper K. Ragan to Andrew F. Muir. Thanks for a note about Mrs. Robertson, the daughter of Dick Dowling and congratulations on honors for Muir. Also writes that Judge F. Robertson was the Uncle of former governor Dan Moody. Ragan hopes to see Muir at a meeting of the Civil War Round Table to hear Frank Vandiver speak. , March 29, 1959
Item — Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Consists of correspondence (25 letters) between Cooper K. Ragan and Rice University history professor Andrew F. Muir. The majority of the correspondence deals with comments on Muir’s published articles and papers, historical information, criticisms of others’ works, and mention of meetings and programs of the Texas Historical Association and the Houston Civil War Roundtable. Two letters, written by Muir, are handwritten, signed. The last two letters (January 30 and 31, 1969) mention Muir’s ill...
Dates:
March 29, 1959
(TLS) Andrew F. Muir to Cooper K. Ragan. Muir asks for the names and addresses of two ladies who are descendants of Theodore Uglow Lubbock, adopted son of Governor Lubbock. , June 25, 1959
Item — Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Consists of correspondence (25 letters) between Cooper K. Ragan and Rice University history professor Andrew F. Muir. The majority of the correspondence deals with comments on Muir’s published articles and papers, historical information, criticisms of others’ works, and mention of meetings and programs of the Texas Historical Association and the Houston Civil War Roundtable. Two letters, written by Muir, are handwritten, signed. The last two letters (January 30 and 31, 1969) mention Muir’s ill...
Dates:
June 25, 1959
(TL) Cooper K. Ragan to Andrew F. Muir. Ragan answers the above letter by writing that the names of the descendants are Mrs. Cecil Haden (Laura Breed) and Mrs. F.R. Findley (Augusta Breed) of Houston, Texas. , July 16, 1959
Item — Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Consists of correspondence (25 letters) between Cooper K. Ragan and Rice University history professor Andrew F. Muir. The majority of the correspondence deals with comments on Muir’s published articles and papers, historical information, criticisms of others’ works, and mention of meetings and programs of the Texas Historical Association and the Houston Civil War Roundtable. Two letters, written by Muir, are handwritten, signed. The last two letters (January 30 and 31, 1969) mention Muir’s ill...
Dates:
July 16, 1959
(TLS) Andrew F. Muir to Cooper K. Ragan. Muir writes about his work on the Journal of Southern History and two papers he is preparing for publication, Railroads Come to Houston, 1857-1861 and William Marsh Rice, Resident of Houston, 1839-1863. Muir also writes about a trip to the Ozarks and a visit to the grave of Rice’s brother, David. He writes of his talk with David’s grandson and on U.S. Civil War involvement. , July 18, 1959
Item — Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Consists of correspondence (25 letters) between Cooper K. Ragan and Rice University history professor Andrew F. Muir. The majority of the correspondence deals with comments on Muir’s published articles and papers, historical information, criticisms of others’ works, and mention of meetings and programs of the Texas Historical Association and the Houston Civil War Roundtable. Two letters, written by Muir, are handwritten, signed. The last two letters (January 30 and 31, 1969) mention Muir’s ill...
Dates:
July 18, 1959
(TLS) Andrew F. Muir to Cooper K. Ragan. Muir writes that he has read Edwin C. Bears’ Washburn Autumn Raid on the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad and finds the paper "impossible" and literary style "monotonously bad." , August 3, 1959
Item — Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Consists of correspondence (25 letters) between Cooper K. Ragan and Rice University history professor Andrew F. Muir. The majority of the correspondence deals with comments on Muir’s published articles and papers, historical information, criticisms of others’ works, and mention of meetings and programs of the Texas Historical Association and the Houston Civil War Roundtable. Two letters, written by Muir, are handwritten, signed. The last two letters (January 30 and 31, 1969) mention Muir’s ill...
Dates:
August 3, 1959
(TL) Cooper K. Ragan to Andrew F. Muir. Ragan praises Muir on his papers on Houston railroads and William Marsh Rice. He wants to discuss E.B. Nichols and his part in the U.S. Civil War. Ragan writes that he agrees with Muir’s critique of Washburn’s Autumn Raid. He mentions a new biography of James Stephen Hogg and Senator Ralph Yarborough’s enthusiasm for the book. , August 5, 1959
Item — Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Consists of correspondence (25 letters) between Cooper K. Ragan and Rice University history professor Andrew F. Muir. The majority of the correspondence deals with comments on Muir’s published articles and papers, historical information, criticisms of others’ works, and mention of meetings and programs of the Texas Historical Association and the Houston Civil War Roundtable. Two letters, written by Muir, are handwritten, signed. The last two letters (January 30 and 31, 1969) mention Muir’s ill...
Dates:
August 5, 1959
(TLS) Andrew F. Muir to Cooper K. Ragan. Muir writes that he is an admirer of James Hogg and mentions that the longest biographical sketch he knows of on Ebenezer B. Nichols appears in William Manning Morgan, Trinity…Church, Galveston, Texas, 1841-1953, a Memorial History. , August 10, 1959
Item — Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Consists of correspondence (25 letters) between Cooper K. Ragan and Rice University history professor Andrew F. Muir. The majority of the correspondence deals with comments on Muir’s published articles and papers, historical information, criticisms of others’ works, and mention of meetings and programs of the Texas Historical Association and the Houston Civil War Roundtable. Two letters, written by Muir, are handwritten, signed. The last two letters (January 30 and 31, 1969) mention Muir’s ill...
Dates:
August 10, 1959