DeGolyer Library Archival Collections: J-L

John Holmes Jenkins (1940-1989) was a Texas bookseller, publisher, and historian. He is known for his ten-volume work, Papers of the Texas Revolution. This collection includes his personal and business correspondence, business records, speeches, and research material for his publications.

Cone Johnson was a lawyer, Texas state senator, and solicitor for the United States Department of State. This collection includes correspondence, Department of State papers, campaign materials, manuscripts, and newspaper clippings. Main topics include Johnson's unsuccessful campaigns against Joseph Weldon Bailey for delegate-at-large to the Democratic National Convention (1908) and against Oscar Branch Colquitt in the state gubernatorial race (1910); Johnson's work as legal advisor to William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State during Woodrow Wilson's administration (1914-1917); and Johnson's law practice in Tyler, Texas.

Anson Jones was a doctor and the last president of the Republic of Texas. Included in this collection are his letters to his cousin, letters to his wife, a confederate envelope, a war tax receipt, and a document appointing the first official physician in the Republic of Texas (1841). The two letters to his wife mention Sam Houston, as well as the new newspaper The Daily Bulletin, which was in opposition to The Daily Texian. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

The Texas League is a Class AA baseball league. Tom Kayser, former league president, created this research collection about the league’s history. Materials include baseball cards, biography and history files, box scores, media guides, newsletters, photographs, posters, programs, rosters, statistics, scrapbooks, and audiovisual materials.

Isabel T. Kelly (1906-1983) was a social anthropologist and archeologist who specialized in Mexican cultures. The Kelly collection consists of field note sheets, folders of data, manuscripts, maps, photographs, negatives, slides, film, charts, tables, and secondary source copies. These materials come from research trips in the United States to study Coast Miwok and Southern Paiute tribes, and in Mexico, Bolivia, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, and Pakistan.

Charles Kennedy was a professor of economics at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and a Boston and Maine Railroad historian. His papers contain his unfinished manuscript on the history of the Boston and Maine, as well as his teaching and subject files.

This collection includes letters and postcards written by Kerouac to various friends discussing literary and personal matters. Included is a brief note from Allen [Ginsberg].

Jack St. Clair Kilby is best known as the inventor of the microchip, first demonstrated September 12, 1958 at Texas Instruments (TI) where he was employed. This collection of Kilby’s personal papers consists of some early papers relating to his youth in Great Bend, Kansas, college and army years, and first job at Centralab in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The bulk of the material is from his years at Texas Instruments from 1958 to 1970 and later independent research. Kilby took out over 60 patents; reprints of most are in the collection. His numerous awards and honorary degrees are also included.

Jan Kirsten was an avid railroad modeler from Annapolis, Maryland and this collection reflects his hobby. The bulk of the collection contains locomotive drawings, with a few photographs and documentation. Also included are Kirsten’s college materials.

Henry Coke Knight (1896-1966) was an architect in Dallas, Texas, where he designed the Dallas Woman's Club, the Dallas Little Theater, and the Museum of Fine Arts. This collection contains photographs and childhood letters written by Nick and Barron Hilton to Coke; letters from Conrad Hilton; a letter from Conrad Hilton in Dallas to his sons; letters from sculptor Wheeler Williams to Coke; a pen and ink drawing for Miriam Green; and a sketch portrait of Miriam. Included are two letters from George Truett, pastor of First Baptist Church, written to Coke's father, R.E.L. Knight. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

This scrapbook contains clippings, correspondence, speeches, and photographs of the Walter and Bessie Koons family. Walter Koons was a judge in north Texas, and head of the legal division of the Texas Public Works Administration. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

Philip Lindsley was a lawyer, banker, and broker in Dallas, Texas. His brother, Porter, worked with him at the Lindsley Building on Poydras Street. This collection includes deeds, financial documents, and correspondence. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.