Manuscripts
Domingo Elizondo letter to Juan Claudio de Pineda
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Carlos Francisco de Croix letter to Domingo Elizondo
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This letter consists of drafts of two letters to Domingo Elizondo, enclosing secret sealed orders related to the explusion of the Jesuits from lower California and Sonora, Mexico. In Spanish.
mssHM 22487
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Juan Claudio de Pineda letter to Carlos Francisco de Croix
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Juan Claudio de Pineda reports to the marqués details of expeditions. In Spanish.
mssHM 4040
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Padre Juan Lorenzo letter to Lorenzo de Cancio
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In this letter to Captain de Cancio, Padre Salgado discusses the captain's movements around Cerro Prieto. In Spanish.
mssHM 4042
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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento letters to Benjamin Apthorp Gould
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In these letters to Gould, an American astronomer who founded the Argentine National Observatory and National Weather Service, Sarmiento discusses details of astronomy and of the Observatory. He also writes of political details, requests to be sent new and recent books on American foreign and domenstic policy, and is pleased to collaborate with Gould. HM 29259 is dated 1872, November 23; HM 29260 is dated 1877, February 28, and HM 29261 is dated 1885, May 17. In Spanish.
mssHM 29259-29261
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Toribio Malarin letter to Juan Malarin
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Letter from Toribio Malarin in Cerro de Pasco, Peru, to his brother Juan Malarin in San Francisco. Toribio writes of his silver mining in the Pasco region of the Andes mountains, but notes that he has fallen into debt and is close to ruin. He wanted to join many of his compatriots departing for the California gold rush, but felt he had a responsibility to his mother and sister in Peru. Toribio writes that he was glad to hear of Juan's success in California, and hoped that he would not be affected by the misfortunes that he felt had plagued their family. He warns Juan to be careful in his associations and to be vigilant about protecting his safety and property. Toribio did not know that Juan had died in Monterey in April 1849. In Spanish.
mssHM 80445
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Juan Bandini letter to Juan Bautista Alvarado
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In this letter, Bandini writes to Alvarado of the poor state of the land at San Juan Capistrano. In Spanish.
mssHM 44935