tact inn with many people t hath ave local data, using local net’s-
papers before and after liberally. I know how to do it. I.Iany persons will be found that have information that can be checked in or checked out by our maps end records which we would have with us, ilany helpful associations could be fostered, and many contacted “ho would go to work locally, ones properly directed, and once supplied with such aids as would be of use. You could find value in that trip also, T nr: sure.
Hut such a trip will not be profitable until there is an organisation here that everyone car. feel pride in supporting. Such a trip is essential in order to put over to the public at large a proper understanding of that Spanish century in Texas, and of the spread and coordination of works of those empire builders.
San Antonians .and South Texas today have a local and provincial vie pont$ their present lack of interest is due this restricted vi ew.
Tinny	•nt-rimr: '• v , me money to put over the Old Spanish
"rail bocu.Jfse ' k . t before them ■ high purpose nid vision.
'.mety large subscriber:- in Son Antonio averaged 1/531 each in support over f a . :o?o icriod; several h.mired move averaged around a hundred each. This Spanish Trail work w is not a local hobby; there vore nr. local bad roads or irritating rivers or bays b ock traffic. So So.r Antonians car be led to support something that is not local : elfish) ei s, and car other Texan
many of the problems and perplxities are real. I ..-ell know it. They can be overridden and generous cooperation acquired by seme such method as bov-. but not in these times. Probably the nos that car: be acknowledged for me now is that I am fallowing tv.- ground, awaiting the day ’.when the seed can be sown; and that here in this • orkshop T v getting machinery and equipment into shape.
Gome years ago I thought the research around here would be relatively easy for me. I have learned now; how vast and vweed-gro'in the field is. nevertheless have preferred to stick to this research as much as pcssib' e in preference to publishing improperly digested' matrial.
T began a ye x ago to build up r, took around the Jan Jose Kissioij because that mission would serve nicely as the' keystone to Can Antonio his tor,, and because the Texas Centennial was in the offing, and because the.- Margil canonization year was approaching, and because that mission should be preserved and sentiment educated and aroused to carry such preservation forward. he olther day I sent you several chapters and the table of contents for Ithat book to show you how tha'twork broadened. This San Jose study again confronted me with,'1 a consciousness of the magnitude of this Spanish story in South Texas.
",’as glad you offered/ to go through the chapters on Teran and Ramon periods, Itwilj.1 help me to know/ how well or poorly I am handling such things. Somewhere along he line I must establish a recognition among San Antonians as an interpreter