Heres excerpts from the first ten or so:
Both the Hispanic Texian patriot Jos Antonio Navarro and his correspondent Narcisso Leal concerning his memoirs of early Texas before the Mexican Revolution of 1821 signed their letters:
.My sole object in writing and publishing those treatises was to dispel some of the erroneous views which had been published in the American papers concerning various incidents that happened in Texas during the years of 1811 and 1813Your obedient
From German Colonel Juan Jos Holzinger in service of the Mexican Centralista Army in his description of Col. Fannins demise at Goliad:
.For, certainly, if the General Government, or our President had been informed that Fannin's forces had surrendered at discretion, under an individual promise, he would have required its punctual fulfillment; but as the Government and President far from the scene of action, they could only take for their guide the reports of Commanders; when those act illegally misfortunes are sure to ensue. .your very attentive faithful servant, who your hand kisses (Signed) Juan Jos Holzinger
San Jacinto veteran William Swearingen on 22 Apr 1836 writing home about the victory at San Jacinto:
.To see the number, the position and the termination and the time in which it was done (time 18 minutes) it at once shows that the hand of providence was with us. I shall be in Kentucky early in the fall. Kiss William for me and tell him pappy will be there in the fall and stay with him and that he must be a good boy.
Reports about Lt. Dickinson whose wife and child Susannah and Angelina Dickinson were in the Alamo when it was overrun by Mexican Centralista soldiers at the end of the siege:
.near the end, Lt. Dickinson rushed into the chapel where she was hiding saying "Great God, Sue! The Mexicans are inside our walls! All is lost! If they spare you, love our child," he kissed Susannah and returned to the battle where he died and his body was burned with the rest of the defenders.
In a letter home to Fayette County friend Gonzalvo Woods from Edward Y. Keen, Mier Expedition prisoner in Perote Castle, summer 1842:
.Gon, I gave you an office in Normans last letter and that was to lay an embargo on all of the girls in that neighborhood and not allow any more of them to get married until I return. Your commission extends still further. You must visit them all and kiss them once or twice each and tell them to charge same to my account..
Reference to Lavaca County residents in the Republic of Texas in the Free State of Lavaca by Paul Boethel:
As the years rolled by, the Butler and Smothers families, as neighbors and kissing kin, got along well, lending one another a helping hand; that is, until about the mid-1880's [when they began feuding].
Early Spanish revolutionary hero Ignacio Allende in a letter of 1810 to Miguel Hidalgo in organizing uprising against the Spanish crown:
.In the next meeting I am going to propose that we start the uprising at San Juan [de los Lagos] during the days of the fair.always work in agreement in this cause. I wish you good health and beg God to protect you and repeat myself your appreciative, affectionate and dependable servant who attentively kisses your hand. (Signed) Igno. de Allende
San Jacinto veteran James Sylvester describing the capture of General Santa Anna in the marshes of Santa Anna:
.I came up to the figure of something covered with a Mexican blanket which proved to be Santa Anna. I ordered him to get up, which he did, very reluctantly and immediately took hold of my hand and kissed it several times, and asked for General Houston
Biography of Capt. William Stevenson Brown, early Texian minuteman and Indian fighter:
.When only fifteen, he lost his mother and when he kissed her pallid brow, he felt that home could never be the same dear spot again and in 1810 resolved to seek the wilds of Missouri [and then Texas.]
Biographies summarizing General Santa Annas fate after capture and release at San Jacinto:
.After release Santa Anna became President and Dictator of Mexico 7 times more over 40 more years, with periodic exile of total 20 years.....ca. 1874 an old forgotten man with a wooden leg hobbled down the steps of Mexico's holiest shrine after being allowed to kiss the image of Our Lady Of Guadalupe, ills rapidly increased, total blindness set in and then complete senility.....El Presidente died penniless on June the 21st, 1876 at age 84.
Benjamin Franklin Hughes, Captain Horton's young orderly, a lad of fifteen years who was saved from execution at Goliad by efforts of the Angel of Goliad and protected by other sympathetic Mexican officers family members, then released, wrote in his recollections as an old man:
..I was told the understanding was that Madame Urrea was to have me when I got to Matamoros and Colonel Holsinger made the arrangements for my being well treated, and the ladies and the little girl made me some nice little presents and when the morning came for me to start, I could see tears in their eyes as they kissed me good-by.
A little German girl wrote in her later memoirs of their experience upon arrival in Mexican Texas in 1831:
..R. M. Williamson, who was then the alcalde, had his office. I saw him several times while I was here, and remember how I wondered at his crutch and wooden leg. S. F. Austin was in Mexico at the time, and Sam Williams, his private secretary, gave my father a title to land which he had originally picked out for himself. My father had to kiss the Bible and promise, as soon as the priest should arrive, to become a Catholic.
