Manuscripts
Descripción Geográfica natural y curiosa de la Provincia de Sonora
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Sueño sobre la expedición de Sonora
Manuscripts
This manuscript appears to be a poem about the Spanish expedition of Sonora. Unknown author. In Spanish.
mssHM 4053
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Segunda exploracion de la costa septentrional de Californias: handwritten manuscript
Manuscripts
This account of the 1775 expedition to the Northwest Coast of America is based on the diary of Francisco Antonio Mourelle, pilot of the schooner "Sonora" under the command of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Cuadra. In Spanish.
mssHM 161
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Diario de Rutta de Senora
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This is a diary of a route and the official operations of Juan Bautista de Anza who was sent from Tubac to open communications to province of Northern California in 1773. This was the first attempt to create an overland route between Mexico and California.
mssHM 1333
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Mexican and Spanish land grants, Sonora, Mexico
Manuscripts
Documents confirming property rights and holdings in the state of Sonora by Mexican or Spanish royal officials. Most documents concern the Gutierrez family, of San Miguel de Horcasitas and owners of the Rancho San Marcial in Sonora, which may suggest that they collected the documents as a legal record of their property ownership. The documents bear royal or state stamps that establish their bona fide nature. Some documents clearly state that they are copies taken from the originals. The documents are in Spanish.
mssHM 83121 (a-p)
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Galvez, Joseph de, Marques de la Sonora...Dos Autos y Testimonio
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, documents, and one map (all in Spanish) which are papers assembled in 1794 for the Conde de Revilla Gigedo. It consists mostly of official correspondence (1765-72) between Gálvez and the successive viceroys of Mexico. They deal with the organization of the expeditions sent to San Diego and Monterey to occupy California, the efforts to enlarge the frontiers of New Spain and subdue the Indians in Sonora and Sinaloa, and the removal of the Jesuit missionaries from Lower California
GA 680
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Juan Comapla letter to Dona Isabel del Valle
Manuscripts
Letter from Father Juan Comapla to Dona Isabel del Valle asking for the date of "the anniversary" and stating that he will only be able to bring a singer, but that the children should make up the difference. In Spanish. Includes handwritten English translation.
mssHM 72991