Materials include one complete and one incomplete draft of House Bill 696 of the 26th Regular Session of the Texas Legislature (1899). The summary of the proposed bill reads: "An act to provide for establishing, governing, and maintaining a State normal school at San Marcos as to be known as the 'Southwest Texas Normal School.'" A subsequent version of this text became SB260, the legislation that officially authorized the creation of the institution now known as Texas State University.
Select excerpts: 26th Legislature, 1899, text of S.B. No. 260, page 175: An Act to provide for ... normal school to be located at San Marcos; 27th Legislature, 1901, text of S.B. No. 142, pages 33-35: An Act to provide for the organization, control, management and active operation of the Southwest Texas State Normal School.
Fidel Tafolla recommends the memoir of his grandfather, James [Santiago] Tafolla Sr., to the Book Section of Reader's Digest. The letter includes a description of the contents of the memoir.
Photocopies of letters from David Koresh from inside Mount Carmel Center during the siege: two from "Yahweh Koresh" to people outside; one from David Koresh to Dick DeGuerin. Also contains a list of the contents on the computer disk smuggled out by Ruth Riddle on April 19, 1993, containing Koresh's essay on the First Seal.