The Ties That Bind : A Georgetown Texas Memoir 1904 - 1909

WALSH, LOUISE COOK [EDITED BY]

Publication: Hanover House Books, 2009, Montgomery, Texas

First edition. 4to. Pictorial boards, color decorated front and rear endpapers, 278 [10[ pp., double column, prologue, illustrations [most in color], portraits, epilogue, bibliography, index. Dr. William B. Jones, Southwestern University: “The letters reproduced in The Ties That Bind provide and inside look into the first decade of 20th century seldom obtained from narrative histories covering that period….The love story provides a thread that pulls the reader along until the end with features of the social history of the times that are quite fascinating.” The basis for this book is more than 500 letters to Early Price, who attended Southwestern University from 1901 to 1908. Price was the youngest daughter of a large, socially prominent family whose ancestors arrived in Georgetown in the early 1870s. Early’s uncle, Captain Frank L. Price was one of the men who helped get Georgetown selected as the site for Southwestern. Many of the letters were written to Early by Morris Fleming, a fellow student who she finally agreed to marry in 1909. There are also letters from her sister, who lived in Chihuahua, Mexico, her aunts, brothers, and grandmother as well as from other Georgetown residents and former students. These letters are brought to life in scrapbook fashion with period photographs, vintage postcards, newspaper and magazine clippings, greeting cards, invitations, telegrams, announcements, etc. Beyond the love story the letters tell, is historical information not found elsewhere, numerous mentions of early Georgetown families, material on early Georgetown, Southwestern University, early Texas and Mexico in the years immediately preceding the Revolution. The title is taken from the Hymn, "Blest be the Tie" sung at Southwestern's first Homecoming in 1909. Fine, bright copy without dust jacket, as issued.

Inventory Number: 53206