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- Texas State Historical Association
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Abstract
Prescott Webb at his desk in Garrison Hall with copies of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and the Junior Historian. Prescott Webb Papers, di 02574, me Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, the University of Texas at Austin. Touched with a Sunset: The Letters of Mavenck and Prescott Webb A Love Story Edited By Betty Hannstein Adams* the first part of the courtship correspondence between Maverick and Prescott Webb ran in the July 200g issue of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. She was the widow of Maury Maverick Sr., U.S. congressman and mayor of San Antonio, and Prescott Webb was a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and a recent widower. Longtime acquaintances, they developed a friendship in late ig6o that turned into a love affair in ig6i. They regularly exchanged letters, as she lived in San Antonio and he lived in Austin. In this set of letters, Webb details his efforts to get his affairs in order so that he can ask to marry him. He finds a job at the university for his daughter, Mildred, and consults an attorney about dividing his property and that of his late wife between him and his daughter.
Journal
Southwestern Historical Quarterly – Texas State Historical Association
Published: Jul 6, 2009