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Title: Anonymous Englishman's Diary
Identifier: foth_0417_multipage
Dates: 1842
Description: This anonymous writer records physical descriptions of the country and discusses several issues confronting the Republic of Texas.

Title: Diary of Somervell's Expedition Against the Southwest in 1842 and 1843
Identifier: foth_0516_multipage
Dates: 1843
Description: Led by General Alexander Somervell, the expedition answered the Mexican army's raids into Texas in 1842. A force of 700 men left San Antonio in November 1842, but by mid-December Somervell recognized the insufficiencies in planning and preparation and, to avoid an overwhelming defeat, ordered his men to return home. Almost half of the original force continued to Mexico as part of the Mier Expedition.

Title: Diary of Thomas Nunn
Identifier: foth_0172_multipage
Creator: Nunn, Thomas
Dates: 1835-05-18
Description: Thomas Nunn records his trip on board a schooner from New Orleans to Texas beginning in February 1835. He discusses a cholera outbreak, Velasco, San Felipe de Austin, [Robertson's] Colony, and the changing landscape during his journey.

Title: Mary Austin Holley Diary
Identifier: foth_0413_multipage
Creator: Holley, Mary Austin, 1784-1846
Dates: 1837
Description: Stephen F. Austin's cousin, Mary Austin Holley, drew this sketch of Peach Point Plantation, the home of Austin's sister Emily Austin Perry and her husband James Franklin Perry. Mrs. Holley visited Texas in 1831, 1835, and 1837 and kept this diary account during her latter two visits to Texas. The diary includes sketches of Texas scenes.

Title: Mary Maverick Diary
Identifier: foth_0504_multipage
Creator: Maverick, Mary Adams, 1818-1898
Dates: 1842
Description: Mary Ann Adams Maverick married Samuel Augustus Maverick in 1836 when he returned to Alabama from the battlefields of the Texas Revolution. They returned to Texas in 1837 and settled in San Antonio. In her diary, Mary Maverick recounts her husband's involvement with the Santa Fe Expedition and his time in a Mexico City prison as a result of the expedition.

Title: Mary Rabb diary
Identifier: foth_0121_multipage
Creator: Rabb, Mary Crownover, Mrs.
Dates: 1875
Description: Mary Crownover Rabb came to Texas in 1823 at age eighteen with her husband, infant, and about sixteen head of cattle. Mary recalled her trip and life in Austin's Colony in these reminiscences, written in 1875.

Title: Peter Gallagher's Journal of the Santa Fe Expedition
Identifier: foth_0492_multipage
Creator: Gallagher, Peter
Dates: 1841
Description: Despite failing to get Congressional approval, President Mirabeau Lamar commissioned an expedition to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to extend commerce by way of a western trade route. In June 1841, a volunteer military force accompanied the merchants on the expedition, but all were met with resistance in New Mexico. Forced to march to Mexico City and imprisoned there, the prisoners gained release in April 1842.

Title: William Fairfax Gray journal
Identifier: foth_0268_multipage
Creator: Gray, William Fairfax, 1787-1841
Dates: 1836-03-02
Description: William Fairfax Gray attended the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos at which delegates wrote the Texas Declaration of Independence. He kept a faithful record of the Convention's proceedings, noting that, as there was no printed press in Washington, "various copies of the Declaration were ordered to be made and sent by express to various points and to the United States."