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1. Under the custody of the Center for Texas Studies at Texas Christian University (TCU), and TCU's Special Collections in the Mary Couts Burnett Library, the long-lost collection of letters was transcribed for publication as The Texas Legation Papers, 1836-1845 (Fort Worth, TX, 2012), edited by the author of this article. 2. H.P.N. Gammel, ed., The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 (Austin, TX, 1898) 1:534; Commission of Austin, Archer, and Wharton, 7 Dec. 1835, and Henry Smith to Austin, Archer, and Wharton, 8 Dec. 1835, in George P. Garrison, Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas (3 vols., Washington, DC, 1908-1911) 1:51-52, 52-54. Hereafter cited as DCRT. 3. For biographies of the commissioners see David Minor, "Archer, Branch Tanner"; Eugene C. Barker, "Austin, Stephen Fuller"; and Merle Weir, "Wharton, William Harris," all in the Handbook of Texas Online (https://tshaonline.org/handbook). 4. Austin to Richard R. Royall, 25 Dec. 1835, Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (4 vols., Washington, DC, 1924-1928) 3:292-294; William H. Wharton to the Public, 9 Nov. 1834, in Barker, Austin Papers 3:25-26. 5. Austin to James F. Perry, 4 March 1836, in Barker, Austin Papers 3:317-318. 6. Stanley Siegel, A Political History of the Texas Republic, 1836-1845 (Austin, TX, 1956), pp. 40-41; Will Fowler, Santa Anna of Mexico (Lincoln, NE, 2007), pp. 176-183. 7. Austin, Archer, and Wharton to the Gov- ernment of Texas, 6 April 1836, DCRT 1:79-80. 8. W. Roy Smith, "The Quarrel between Governor Smith and the Council of the Provi- sional Government of the Republic," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 5(April 1902):324. 9. Paul Lack, ed., The Diary of William Fair- fax Gray: From Texas to Virginia, 1835 (Dallas, TX, 1997), pp. 55, 58; Gregg Cantrell, Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas (New Haven, CT, 1999), pp. 346-347. 10. Lynn Hudson Parsons, John Quincy Adams (Madison, WI, 1998), pp. 224-231. 11. Morfit sent twelve reports, which are published in Senate Document 20, 24th Cong., 2d sess., Serial 297; John M. Belohlavek, "Let the Eagle Soar!": The Foreign Policy of Andrew Jackson (Lincoln, NE, 1985), pp. 232-233; Jackson's message to Congress is in James D. Richardson, ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents (20 vols., New York, 1897) 4:1484-1488. 12. Siegel, Texas Republic, p. 77; Wharton and Hunt to James P. Henderson, 5 March 1837, DCRT 1:201-202. 13. Houston to Jackson, 20 Nov. 1836, Austin Papers 3:457-458. 14. Jonathan W. Jordan, Lone Star Navy: The Fight for the Gulf of Mexico and the Shaping of the American West (Washington, DC, 2006), pp. 83-87. 15. Hunt to Forsyth, 4 Aug. 1837, in William R. Manning, ed., Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States: Inter-American Affairs, 1831-1860 (12 vols., Washington, DC, 1932-1939) 12(Texas and Venezuela):129-140. Hereafter IAA. 16. Forsyth to Hunt, 25 Aug. 1837, IAA 12:11-13. 17. Grayson to Houston, 21 Oct. 1837, DCRT 1:264-265; Robert A. Irion to Anson Jones, 12 July 1838, in Stevens, The Texas Legation Papers, pp. 294-296; Anson Jones to Aaron Vail, 12 Oct. 1838, in IAA 12:173-174; Mirabeau B. Lamar, "Inaug ural Add ress of Mirabeau B. Lamar," 10 Dec. 1838 and "[Notes for the Inaugural Address] on the Annexation of Texas," i n Cha rles A. Gulick, ed., T he Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (6 vols., Austin, TX, 1920-1927) 2:316-323, 324-327; Gammel, Laws of Texas 2:75. 18. Reily to Jones, 3 Aug. 1842, DCRT 1:576-580. 19. Upshur to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 26 Oct. 1843, quoted in Edward P. Crapol, John Tyler: The Accidental President (Chapel Hill, NC, 2006), p. 195; IAA 12: 53-54; Siegel, Texas Republic, pp. 227-229. 20. William G. Crane, Life and Select Literary Remains of Sam Houston of Texas (Dallas, TX, 1884), pp. 370-373; Van Zandt to 47 THE CAPITOL DOME noTES