TEXAS LITERARY INSTITUTE. The Texas Literary Institute was organized at Houston on January 9, 1846, as the result of a meeting known as the Convention of the Friends of Education. Its first officers were Chauncey Richardson,^qv president; Ashbel Smith,^qv vice president; William M. Tryon,^qv treasurer; and Peter W. Gray,^qv secretary. With its object the promotion of education in the Republic of Texas,^qv the organization published an educational magazine, the Public School Advocate, which had a circulation of 500. A meeting was held in Houston as late as November 15, 1848.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Democratic Telegraph and Texas Register, November 18, 1847, August 10, November 23, 1848. Truman Harrison Etheridge, Education in the Republic of Texas (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, 1942).