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  Spanish documents concerning Florida and the West Indies

  Manuscripts

  This collection contains official documents related to the 1783 Treaty of Versailles, particularly in relation to Spanish possession in West Indies. Included are original notifications about the cessation of hostilities directed to the Spanish overseas governors, the Minister of Marine and officers commanding the armed forces from the royal administration and Council of Indies; the acknowledgements and correspondence thereon; the text of two of the Articles of the Peace Treaty, and official proclamations, including a text that had been published without the consent of the King and was later withdrawn and destroyed. Prominent authors include: Juan Antonio Enriquez, Pedro Castejón, José Moffino, and Francisco Xavier Morales. Some notable items include: Enriquez, Juan Antonio. Proclamation of the Peace between Spain and England (1783, Feb. 5). Note: This document was printed and posted in Seville by Enriquez, Minister of Marine at Seville, but was withdrawn and destroyed by the command of the king. Castejón, Pedro, marqués de, 1719-1783. To Don Juan Antonio Enriquez. Draft of a letter from the king's secretary reprimanding Enriquez for exceeding the limits of his authority in publishing the news of the peace (1783, Feb. 11). Enriquez to Castejón. Letter vindicating his action, and begging intercession in his behalf (1783, Feb. 19).

  mssHM 9471-9548

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  Baptismal record

  Manuscripts

  This manuscript is a single-page, double-sided leaf taken from the Baptismal Record of the San Luis Obispo Mission. It contains entries for September 29 through December 19, 1783, and has been signed by José Cavaller, Junípero Serra, and Antonio Paterna. In Spanish.

  mssHM 31548

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  Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo papers, (bulk 1844-1846)

  Manuscripts

  The collection consists of letters and documents (in Spanish and English) of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. The bulk dates from 1844 to 1846, and there are approximately forty drafts of letters by Vallejo in the collection. Subject matter includes the defense of the northern frontier, relations with the missions, and the treatment of Native Americans by Father Jesús María Vásquez del Mercado. Correspondents include Juan Bautista Alvarado, Jacob P. Leese, Manuel Micheltorena, Antonio María Osio, John Augustus Sutter, and José de Jesus Vallejo. In addition, the collection contains one letter signed from James Buchanan to Thomas O. Larkin, 1847 January 13 (VA 150b).

  mssVA

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  Relación del descubrimiento y conquista de los reinos del Peru : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  This is Pizarro's account of his experience during the Spanish conquest of Peru. In Spanish. ff. iv, 1-166v. [Pedro Pizarro] Relación del descubrimiento y conquista del Perú. Incipit: Muchos son catolico y clementissimo principe los que an escripto las cosas De estos vuestros rreynos Del Peru. Explicit: Y asi ba aqui todo lo que ba escripto con toda berdad acabose esta escriptura Año de mil y quinientos y setenta y un años a siete dias del mes de hebrero. Rubric: Relación Del descubrimiento y conquista De los Reinos del piru y Del govierno y horden que los naturales tenian y tesoros que En ellos se hallaron y de las demas cosas que en el an çubçedido hasta el Dia De su fecha. Spanish. G. Lohmann Villena, ed., Relación del descubrimiento y conquista del Perú, by Pedro Pizarro (Lima 1978) published from this manuscript which is described on pp. xxxvii-xxxviii; see also M. Fernández de Navarrete, Colección de documentos inéditos para la historia de España (Madrid 1844) 5:201-388, an edition of the 32-chapter version published from the manuscript of Martínez del Villar.

  mssHM 167

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  Book of Hours: selected leaves : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-9v. [Book of Hours]: nine single leaves with illuminations copied from the Stuart de Rothesay Hours (London, British Library, Add. 20927), here bound out of order with respect to the British Library manuscript: Add. 20927 f. 13v: Annunciation = HM 1175, f. 8v; Add. 20927 f. 14: rubric for the Hours of the Virgin = HM 1175 f. 7; Add. 20927 f. 91v: David penitent = HM 1175 f. 9; Add. 20927 f. 92: rubric for the Penitential psalms = HM 1175 f. 1; Add. 20927 f. 119v: Jesus before Mary and Martha = HM 1175 f. 2v; Add. 20927 f. 120: rubric for the Office of the Dead = HM 1175 f. 5; Add. 20927 f. 165v: Crucifixion = HM 1175 f. 6v; Add. 20927 f. 166: rubric for the Hours of the Cross = HM 1175 f. 4; Add. 20927 f. 172: the Archangel Raphael guiding a very young Tobias = HM 1175 f. 3.

  mssHM 1175

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  Diary of His Expedition to Northern California

  Manuscripts

  The manuscript diary signed twice by Esteban José Martínez, the officer commanding the expedition to San Lorenzo de Nuca, which he undertook by order of the Viceroy of New Spain. This manuscript diary was written from his own rough notes jotted down during his voyage, as he states at the end of this manuscript. Text in Spanish. Included is a vocabulary in the Hawaiian language.

  mssHM 529