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Jesuit missionaries in Mexico letters

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Description: The first letter is from Juan María de Salvatierra, S.J. to Antonio Nuñez de Miranda, S.J., the Jesuit Provincial, on the 12th or 30th of June 1680. From the mission of Santa Inés de Chínipas (in the modern day state of Chihuahua), Salvatierra writes to Nuñez de Miranda, asking permission to carry out the charge that the Father Inspector ("Padre Visitador") Juan Fernández Cabero has assigned to him of working in the district ("partido") of Santa Teresa de Guasapares (also in Chihuahua). Salvatierra quotes a letter from another Father Inspector Juan Ortíz Zapato that spells out this charge. Salvatierra is to work with the Native Americans called "Usarones" (Husarones). HM 83155
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1680-1702.
Call number: mssHM 83155-83157
Provenance: Purchased from Kenneth Karmiole Bookseller, Inc., October 2016.

Juan de Oñate letter to Juan de Rucauado

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Appoints Juan de Rucauado as "Discoverer of the Mines of Spain" after his actions as Inspector of the Spanish mines, at great personal risk to himself, in the service of the King of Spain.

mssHM 1567

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Electus Backus manuscript and letters

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The manuscript relates Backus' experiences with the First Infantry Regiment during the Mexican War, from his departure from Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, in May 1846, until he left Vera Cruz in July 1848 to return home to the United States. Backus describes in detail his regiment's march; their occupations of Burita, Reinoso, Veracruz and Mexico City; the Battle of Monterrey; his time in charge of the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa; and the violence which continued after the official end of the war. Backus specifically mentions Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, Mariano Arista, Antonio Canales, and Antonio López de Santa Anna. At the end of the manuscript are several newspaper clippings regarding Electus Backus and the Mexican War. Accompanying the manuscript are two letters written by Backus further describing his experience in the Mexican War. The letters are addressed to Senator Alpheus Felch and to Backus' father-in-law, General Hugh Brady. The manuscript and letters may have been written by Backus to support his request for a promotion. There are also several sketches of Monterrey, which are drawn by Backus.

mssHM 66663-66666

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Photographs of scenes in Mexico

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Four photographs taken while researching his master's thesis in Mexico in 1906, including two views of the peaks of the Pachuca Mountains in Hidalgo province, one street scene in the city of Chihuahua, and one photograph of the botanist Cyrus G. Pringle

mssHM 52704

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George A. McCall papers

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Papers of George A. McCall related to his military career. Included are correspondence, dispatches, communications, and other military records related to the Black Hawk War, the 2nd Seminole War, and McCall's service as the Inspector General of the Army in charge of Pacific and Western territorial divisions. Also included are McCall's letters to his father Archibald McCall written during the Seminole War; letters of recommendation and other correspondents regarding McCall's proposed promotion to the rank of Assistant Adjutant General of the Western Division, 1838, and a brevet for this service in the Seminole War, 1843; and the correspondence related to McCall's resignation from the Army in 1853. Correspondents include John Reynolds, William Jenkins Worth, Samuel Cooper, Edmund P. Gaines, Winfield Scott, William Dayton Lewis, and others. There is also a small group of materials dealing with Native American affairs in Texas and New Mexico territory from 1849 to 1850 including a few pieces of the official correspondence of George Mercer Brooke, the commander of the 8th Military Department, and a copy of James S. Calhoun's Proclamation to the Pueblos, with related correspondence.

mssHM 42573-42621

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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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Baltasar de Mansilla letter to the Duchess de Aveiro y Arcos

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Father Baltasar de Mansilla writes to the Duchess de Aveiro, giving news of California and of Father Eusebio Kino.

mssHM 22489

Jesuit missionaries in Mexico letters

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