Manuscripts
Raymundo Carrillo de Albornoz letter to Valerie Franco
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José Raymundo Carrillo letter to Felipe de Goycoechea
Manuscripts
This letter reports various personal news. In Spanish.
mssHM 16578
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Rexistro y diligencias de Pocecion de la Mina de N[uestro] S[enor] S[a]n Jose, Sita en la Zierra de Santa Rosa de Buenavista, a distancia de 11# Leguas de d[ic]ho R[ea]l, para la parte del oriente
Manuscripts
A file of documents, sewn together, regarding a small Sonoran mining claim named San Jose. The San Jose was located in the Santa Rosa de Buenavista mountains around thirty miles east of the mining town Real de la Cieneguilla, which was to the east of Caborca in northwestern Sonora, Mexico. The documents, which bear a variety of signatures but are most prominently signed by the mining commissioner Jose Francisco de Velasco, register the mine and grant possession of it to Jose Elena Figueroa.
mssHM 69952
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R.B. (Richard Barnes) Mason letter to María de las Augustias de la Guerra y Carrillo de Jimeno
Manuscripts
R.B. Mason writes with regret of the passing of Lieutenant Colville J. Minor, and thanks Madam Jimeno for the gracious care given to him during his illness. With manuscript transcription, translated into Spanish.
mssHM 4150
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Robert Lewis Harris letters to Lucy W. Kimball
Manuscripts
Series of letters written by Robert L. Harris to his fiancée Lucy W. Kimball in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The letters begin with Harris' stay in Boston in early 1861 while awaiting instructions to travel to California as a railroad engineer. While in Boston Harris writes of his attendance of meetings held by the Franklin Club and the Freemasons, of an Easter service and festival, and of early Civil War fervor, particularly around the Lynn Armory (he writes that "I never before witnessed such perfect wildness of enthusiasm as was manifested in the streets today"). In late April Harris sailed for California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and he writes extensively of both life aboard the ship and of the scenery in Dominican Republic, Panama, and Mexico, particularly Acapulco. He also writes of stopping "mid-ocean" to exchange letters and parcels with the Northern Light (and also to "put them on their guard against Jeff Davis' pirates"). Harris arrived in San Francisco in mid-May 1861 and was "stupefied, overwhelmed, [and] confounded by my first vision of the Golden State." Once in California Harris writes of his plans for a horse-drawn railway, of climbing the Sierra Nevada mountains in a snowstorm, of the possibility of a railroad near Washoe City, Nevada, and of his visits to the Ophir Silver Mining Company and encounters with Captain George Blunt Wendell, San Francisco and San Jose Railroad president Timothy Dame, and Jerome Lincoln (brother of Harris' mentor Ezra Lincoln). He also writes of his dismay at the news of the Battle of Fredericksburg and of his religious views (he notes visiting Roman Catholic cathedrals, Jewish synagogues, and "African camp meetings," but that "I have not so strong sectarian feelings as most people.") Also included are three sketches of pastoral life in California.
mssHM 74761-74783, HM 83852-83853
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Conde de Revillagigedo to Antonio de Mesa
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters and documents in one bound volume regarding the outfitting of Pedro Alberni's expedition at San Blas, Mexico (in 1789 and 1790), the occupation of his troops at Nootka, and their return to San Blas in 1792. Persons represented in the collection include: Pedro de Alberni (16 letters), Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (10 letters), Manuel Antonio Flores (8 letters), Pedro Gorostiza (8 letters), Juan Vicente de Guemes Pacheco, Conde de Revillagigedo (63 letters), Francisco Hijosa (7 letters), Antonio Villaurrutia y Salcedo (17 letters), Jacobo Ugarte y Loyola (5 letters).
mssHM 327
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Carlos Francisco de Croix letter to Domingo Elizondo
Manuscripts
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