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The "Governors' Palacen v/as not a governor's palace. 71 da a fine civic step toward the preservation of the spirit and character of the Spanish past. Truth respecting that past, however, will not cone until research has uncovered more and I--. more carefully interpretoied what is uncovered.
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The granary at San Jose was the old first church; therefore a rare and very interesting relic.	Iu.t there is work yet	to
be dono to completely provo this.	The profaning done at
that "restoration1' probably can never be corrected now.
There are considerable data developed to establish the correct history respecting the foregoing, and other historjrnow crudely misrepresented. These illustrate the necessity for collective Round Tabic discussion and Interpretation before any conclusions aha ild be given an historically correct, and those also illustrate the difficulties that must be faced, before historical facts con be established in the public mind and Tan Antonio spared the odium of amateurish work.
Affiliations. Coordination with all other historical agencies is as important to complete understandings as Round Table work is to local studies. Vc can organize broad and constructive institutional coordination, and we must do it. There is history in and around Gan Antonio to bo brought out that can moke San Antonio the shrine of the American traveler, and there io;’'rich iSJjndmngn field for literary writers, authors and historians’. As President of the Old Spanish Trail 1 can command transcontinental coordination—i already enjoy ouch cooperation and assistance. The K.0.Historical Commission of Texas io layiisg a splendid foundation for this Texas work—because of the K ,C. work much io possible novr that, a few years ago, was hopeless. T' e K.C. is identified with St. -.award'a University; our work should bring credit to Si. Tory's University. Prank cooperation with all other historical agencies in Texas ia of course essential. Some of our associates, who are also members of other societies, are helping with this. 'Uiore is no duplication. The field is too big. Great publications will not come until that field is explored infinitely more than it has been, and source material made ready.