AFFAIRS OF THE ASSOCIATION.
A letter received some time since from one of the members of the Association brings information of the death of Mr. D. M. O'Connor, which had occurred, in fact, several months previous to the publication of the July Quarterly. The editor, however, had not then heard of it; and Mr. O'Connor was named in that number as a life member of the Association. Though he did not participate actively in the work of the organization, he gave it generous support; and in his death it has lost a friend that it could ill afford to spare.
The Association has received from Mr. R. A. Hanrick, of Waco, a leaf from The Texas Sentinel of July 11, 1840, containing a part of No. 4 of a series of letters by D. G. Burnet on the Indians of Texas, a report of part of the speech of Mr. Jack on the bill for the temporary location of the seat of government in the house of representatives, December 3, 1839; a clipping apparently from the same paper and of about the same date, containing two columns of advertisements referring especially to land certificates; and an almost complete copy of the same for July 18, 1840, containing the conclusion of Burnet's letter and Jack's speech. Another gift is a cannon ball found in the Southwest bastion of old Fort San Saba, and presented by the finder, Mr. J. W. Hunter, editor of the Mason Herald.
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"AFFAIRS OF THE ASSOCIATION.", Volume 005, Number 2, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page not available. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v005/n2/back_9.html
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