Rotary Club of Darwen Correspondence
Content Description
Photocopy of correspondence from Howard Peters, of the Rotary Club of Darwen, England, and "Rotarian James" of the Brownsville club. Included with the correspondence is a summation of letters written by members of a local Lancashire family, especially those of a young man by the name of James Horrocks (alias Andrew Ross), who came to America to escape a paternity suit, and lived for a time in Brownsville. Summation of Horrocks correspondence includes descriptions of U.S. Mail Steamship travel, aboard the Str. Illinois, as well as the South Texas landscape, the local peoples, local customs, the Rio Grande, Fort Ringgold, Camargo, Edinburg, local fauna, Brownsville, Matamoros, commerce, and smuggling.
Dates
- 1865 - 1871
Extent
1 Folders : 6 documents
Language of Materials
English
- Brownsville (Tex.)--History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Fort Ringgold (Tex.)--History--19th century. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.)--Fiction. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Mail steamers Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Matamoros (Mexico) Subject Source: Local sources
- Rotary Club of Brownsville (Tex.) Subject Source: Local sources
- Rotary Club of Darwen (Lancashire, England) Subject Source: Local sources
Source
- Torres, Rene (Person)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Sean Visintainer
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Brownsville Campus Repository
One West University Boulevard
UTRGV University Library (BLIBR 2.202)
Brownsville Texas 78520 United States
(956) 882-7281
archives@utrgv.edu
