Stephen F Austin to Unknown, 07-20-1836 Stephen F Austin Project Director and Editor Andrew J. Torget Creation of XML version Debbie Liles Initial TEI Formatting Stephen Mues Programmatic and Manual TEI P5 Compliance Ben W. Brumfield Digital Stephen F. Austin Papers 08-13-2011 Unknown Unknown Unknown Eugene Barker, ed., The Austin Papers, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1927), 3 vols., Vol 3, pp. 399 Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes Memorandum 07-20-1836 Programmatic restructuring and manual clean-up to comply with TEI P5 2.3.0 Restructured to meet TEI P5 standards Digital creation of XML file

Conversation with Archer and William H. Wharton, who urged him to become candidate for presidency

July 20—Went to Velasco to meet B. T. Archer and W. H. Wharton (who had returned a few days before from the U. S.) for the purpose of making a return of our mission to the U. S. as commissioners We made our report and rendered an account of all the monies we had recd, and disbursed for Texas, and accompanied those with all the original vouchers, which were passed to the Auditor for examination—

Archer and Wharton at this time requested that I would be a candidate for the Presidency of Texas— B Hardiman, S. Rhoads Fisher and many others also requested it—