BOX 1: RHODES FAMILY PAPERS
1.1: DIARY OF DR. ROBERT H. RHODES (1848-1849) [describes career as medical student; voyage to California; incl. some plays & poetry]
1.2: RHODES FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE & OTHER PAPERS (1838-1877)
a-Col. Elisha Rhodes letter describing conditions in Texas on his arrival (1838)
b-Mary Rhodes letter describing Sam Houston (1843)
c-Galveston residents to John C. Calhoun (1844) [testifies to Rhodes' good character]
d-Deed to Windsor Ranch (1856)
e-Edward A. Rhodes, Virginia Military Institute to family (1860)
f-Mary Rhodes to Edward A. Rhodes (1861) [describes sectional hostilities in Calif.]
g-? Rhodes, Texas to Mary Rhodes (1877) [protests election of Rutherford B. Hayes]
1.3: MISC. BUSINESS PAPERS (1868-1880) [25 items; principally rcpts. for ranch supplies and eqpt.; some tax rcpts., etc.]
1.4: MISC. BUSINESS PAPERS (1881-1883) [15 items]
1.5: MISC. BUSINESS PAPERS (1884-1886) [18 items]
1.6: MISC. BUSINESS PAPERS (1887-1898) [15 items]
1.7: MISC. GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL (1857-c1942) [15 items; primarily family corresp. showing relationships of Rhodes, Smith and Pister families; incl. some poetry by Mary Rhodes]
1.8: MARY RHODES [clippings re]
BOX 2: WILLIAM H. "CAXTON" RHODES
2.1: BIOGRAPHICAL & GENERAL INFO
a-Genealogy
b-Biography from History of the Island City of Galveston
c-Biography from The Poets
d-Biography from Science Fiction in Old San Francisco
2.2: SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & RECITATIONS
2.3: DESCENDANTS
2.4: MCDERMOTT (MATERNAL LINE) FAMILY INFO
2.5: WRITINGS AND ACTIVITIES
a-Woman suffrage
b-Caxton's Book (1876) [photocopy]
c-"The hobby horse," SF Call (7-26-1874)
d-Indian Gallows & Other Poems (1846) [photocopy]
e-"Caxton: The enrobing of liberty," from May Wentworth. Poetry of the Pacific (1867)
2.6: MISC. PUBLISHED MATERIALS, INCL. "THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE OF 1856"