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Title: Certificate for admittance in the Nashville Colony
Identifier: foth_0104
Creator: Robertson, Sterling C. (Sterling Clark), 1785-1842
Dates: 1835
Box: 3k25
Description: Sterling C. Robertson issued this receipt to A.F. Burchard, awarding Burchard admittance as a colonist into the Nashville Colony.

Title: Colorado and Red River Land Company
Identifier: foth_0114_multipage
Creator: Colorado and Red River Land Company
Dates: 1835
Description: The Colorado and Red River Land Company issued this pamphlet to assure stockholders that speculation in Texas lands would prove to be a prudent move.

Title: Dinner to Colonel Austin
Identifier: foth_0253
Dates: 1835
Box: BC OB 1830-1835
Description: The text of Austin's speech to the citizens of Brazoria given at a dinner in his honor on September 8. Austin landed in Velasco on September 1, 1835, after more than two years in Mexico. In his speech a week later, Austin called for a convention to protest the centralist Mexican government's abrogation of the Constitution of 1824. He ended his address with this toast: "The Constitutional rights and the security of peace of Texas, they ought to be maintained, and jeopardized as they now are, they demand a general consultation of the people."

Title: Map of Texas With Parts of the Adjoining States
Identifier: foth_0634
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1835
Description: The 1835 edition of Austin's 1830 Map of Texas, the first map to show on a large scale the beginnings of immigration into Texas from the United States. This later edition depicts additional land grants and presents a section of text stating the number of families to be located on each grant shown on the map.

Title: Prison diary
Identifier: foth_0035_multipage
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1835
Box: 2a153
Description: The small diary Austin smuggled into prison to record his thoughts and experiences during the nearly two years he was confined. The diary contains an inscription dated December 25, 1871, by Moses Austin Bryan, Austin's nephew, stating that he traced in ink over Austin's original pencil writings "which were made by him in this book whilst he was a prisoner in the cell no. 15 ... I have heard my Uncle Austin speak of this book that he managed to secret with a pencil when his person was examined."

Title: Prison Diary [facsimile]
Identifier: foth_0646
Creator: Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836
Dates: 1835
Box: 2a153
Description: Two pages from the small diary Stephen F. Austin smuggled into prison to record his thoughts and experiences during the nearly two years he was confined. This page includes a drawing of Austin's prison environment.

Title: The Texian Grand March for the Piano Forte
Identifier: foth_0389
Creator: Meyrick, Edwin
Dates: 1835
Box: 3n182
Description: This sheet music, "Respectfully dedicated to Gen. Houston and his brave Companions in Arms," carries an idealized rendition of Santa Anna's surrender to Houston based on the earliest news reports. Publishers in the nineteenth century often illustrated their sheet music with covers depicting political and military events and heroes of the day.