Leaves from the Scrapbook of M. W. Terrell.

[San Antonio, Texas:: The Compiler, Printed by the Press of the Clegg Company,.. Not illustrated; 56 + [i–iv] pp. Tall thin volume, stapled in the centerfold, 9 x 5 inches, brown very stiff card (simulated leather); title in gilt on front cover; some chipping at edges, corners, and spine. Three holdings in OCLC, all in Texas.Terrell says in his introductory remarks that one of his hobbies “has been the keeping of a scrapbook, into which I have incorporated, indiscriminately, verses, bits of eloquence and philosophy, of authors known and unknown.” He goes on to say that he authored none of the contents and remarks “You never can tell what one will keep and treasure, nor why.”The eldest son of J. O. Terrell, State Senator in the 19th and 20th Texas Legislatures, and elder brother of Chester Terrell, youngest Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. He got his law degree at the University of Texas; then went into one of the family-associated law firms; during WWII he was Legal Adviser to Draft Board. He went on to publish two more of these collections.