Sold for $3,750

Various sizes, most 4-pages. Provenance: All collected and catalogued by Ford Mitchell (his sale, PBA Galleries, 20 October 2005, Sale 319, Lot 434). 

Large collection of newspapers from the first half of he 19th-century including articles on Texas, including information about its beginnings as an outpost of New Spain, then as a province of Mexico, the revolution, the early days of the Republic, annexation, and finally statehood.  The earliest newspaper, The Washington Federalist of 23 February 1803, includes a long article about the "Secret Maneuverings of Col. Burr." An issue of the Boston Independent Chronicle of 9 January 1804 covers the Louisiana Purchase and the beginnings of the problems on the Texas boundary.  Many issues from 1836 include printings of the Texas Declaration of Independence.  An issue of the Philadelphia Sun of 14 April 1836 reports on the fall of the Alamo.  

Among the newspapers represented are the National Intelligencer (49 issues); Daily National Intelligencer (26 issues); New York Daily Tribune (9 issues); Manufacturers & Farmers Journal (7 issues); Richmond Enquirer (5 issues); and the Ohio State Journal and Register (7 issues).