[Autograph letter signed] 1836 Mar 12, Head Quarters, Texas to Capt. P. Dimmit, at or near Victoria Guadalupe [?] Texas

Creator:

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Published/Created:

1836 March 12

Physical Description:

1 p.
approximately 34.7 x 21.5 cm.

Notes:

In pencil at top center: JHB.
Letter mutilated with slight loss of text.
At end: note headed "Unofficial" tells of the fall of the Alamo.

Topics:

Autographs --Texas --Collections

Topics:

Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) --Siege, 1836
Texas --History --Republic, 1836-1846
Texas --History --Revolution, 1835-1836
Texas --History --To 1846
Texas --Politics and government

Topics:

Dimmit, Philip

Language:

English

Genre:

Correspondence

Format:

Text

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Source Creator:

Streeter, Thomas W. (Thomas Winthrop), 1883-1965, collector

Source Title:

Thomas W. Streeter collection of Texas manuscripts, 1787-1864

Call Number:

WA MSS S-498

Folder:

Folder 129

Orbis Record:

3181241

Finding Aid:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.wa498

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

Yale Collection of Western Americana

oid pointer:

1130784

OID:

2036384

PID:

digcoll:3467065