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Special Collections and Archives regularly receives individual manuscripts and small groupings of materials that have historical significance, but are not substantial enough to necessitate a full finding aid. For administrative and storage purposes, these materials have been grouped into an artificial collection, the Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection.

This collection consists of materials covering a wide range of topics and format. The contents reflect the breadth of the holdings in Special Collections and Archives, with a particular emphasis on Texas history. Materials may be added to the collection on an ongoing basis. Subject headings have been assigned at the item level.

Bill of sale for an enslaved person, named Tom, sold by Joseph Megginson to Jeremiah Smith in Galveston, Texas.

Contracts between James Hamilton, Elizabeth Hamilton, and Abner Jackson regarding the Retrieve Plantation on Oyster Creek in Brazoria County, which was owned by the Hamiltons and Jackson.

List of the crew of the Schooner Nancy, sailing from Edenton, North Carolina to Jamaica in 1805.

"The Saga of Our Ancestry: Being a Series of Sketches o the Lives of Pioneer Texans, Written for the Information and Pleasure of their Descendants by Maud Boyce Farrar, Waxahachie, Texas, 1934."

Contents:

1. Rebecca Horton Boyce
2. Mahaly, the slave woman
3. Little Dog Penny
4. The Aldredge Family
5. Elizabeth Aldredge Boyce
6. W.A. Boyce
7. Nancy Owen Smith
8. Hans Smith
9. Lelia Smith Farrar
10. Education of Her Children
11. S.B. Farrar
12. Genealogical Tables

Typescript manuscript of the Autobiography of Andrew Davis (1827-1906).

Typescript copy of original manuscript memoirs by John Beldon Billingsley (1830-1904).

Two receipts for taxes collected in Boerne, Texas, in 1912 and 1918.

Typed manuscript by R.L. Cartwright, "The Earliest American History of Texas," 1931.

Credential certificates of Reverend John Shackleford Gillett (1838-1910), West Texas Conference.

A commonplace book used by Violet Alice Haynes Bowles (1873-1953), in which she recorded poetry, correspondence, genealogical research, and other notes. Much of the contents reflects her views as a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy.

A variety of land grant certificates.
1- 1879 copy of an 1845 land grant from the Republic of Texas, granting Burrell Perry one labor of land in Fannin County
2- 1879 copy of an 1862 grant from the State of Texas to Hiram E. Hays for 160 acres in Collin County
3- 1862 land grant from the State of Texas to the Southern Pacific Rail Road Company for 640 acres in Concho County.

Deed for the 1860 transfer of land in DeWitt County, Texas, from Peter and Louise Metz to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

1899 application by Laura Schaefer of San Antonio, Texas, for membership in the Daughters of the Confederacy.

1880 teaching certificate granted to Reverend H.F. Young in Hopkins County, Texas, with handwritten renewals on the verso through 1887.

Journal belonging to a young lawyer in Georgetown, Texas, dated between 1914 and 1915. Although no name appears in the journal, the donor believed it to belong to R.E. Bowers.

Program for the 1948 Caldwell County Centennial coronation and pageant.

Three manuscripts related to the 1888 San Antonio International Fair: a timeline of events, an account of the cattle roping contest, and an account of George W. Saunders's renowned steer named Geronimo.

Autograph letter from Porfirio Diaz, president of Mexico, dated 1894.

Photocopies of two diaries written by William Calloway Flenniken (1831-1906), a Confederate soldier during the Civil War.