Box 3
Container
Contains 74 Collections and/or Records:
2-4-1821. Iturbide, Agustin. Plan del Señor Coronel D. Agustin Iturbide. Copia del Suplemento al número 14 de la Abeja poblana. Mexico: Oficina de D. J. M. Benavente y Socios. The first Mexico City printing of the Plan of Iguala. 2 pp. (Br, #1)
File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, beginning with the heyday of nation formation from 1776 to 1815 and ending with the building of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century. Many of the documents are original government publications such as constitutions, decrees, or presidential and congressional messages, and...
Dates:
1821-1865
[1835] Rayon, Ramon. El Ciudadano Ramon Rayon, General de Brigada Y Gobernador Del Distrito Federal. [Mexico]. Initialed in manuscript by Governor Rayon. Describing the national debt of the Mexican states and declaring that Sonora (of which Arizona is still a part) and Sinaloa are responsible for payment of at least twenty percent of that debt. (Br, #12) (oversize)
File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, beginning with the heyday of nation formation from 1776 to 1815 and ending with the building of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century. Many of the documents are original government publications such as constitutions, decrees, or presidential and congressional messages, and...
Dates:
1821-1865
[2-19-1847] Cuartel General del Egercito. #20. Notifies the Mexican people of the dictates of martial law under U.S. occupation, naming in 12 separate directives the crimes which are punishable under U.S. law. By order of the “Mayor General” (Weinfield Scott) signed in type, “N.L. Scott” (Br, #38)
File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, beginning with the heyday of nation formation from 1776 to 1815 and ending with the building of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century. Many of the documents are original government publications such as constitutions, decrees, or presidential and congressional messages, and...
Dates:
1821-1865
[1852] [Hargous, Peter A.] “Remonstrance. The Memorialist, citizens of the United States…” Protesting Mexico’s repudiation of the Memorialists’ franchises and land transfers, which endangered their project to construct the Tehuantepec Railroad across the Isthmus. 36 pp. (Pm, #56)
File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, beginning with the heyday of nation formation from 1776 to 1815 and ending with the building of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century. Many of the documents are original government publications such as constitutions, decrees, or presidential and congressional messages, and...
Dates:
1821-1865
11-15-1865 Letter: Price, Sterling. Writing from the newly formed colony of Cordova, Mexico, describing the nearly idyllic conditions which he has found. To Col. Thomas L. Snead. 4 pp. (ALS, #9)
File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, beginning with the heyday of nation formation from 1776 to 1815 and ending with the building of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century. Many of the documents are original government publications such as constitutions, decrees, or presidential and congressional messages, and...
Dates:
1821-1865
5-18-1847. Tyler, John. Letter: "When the Mexican gulph [sic] shall be crowded with innumerable ships freighted with the rich production of Texas both Coastwide and outward - meeting other ships loaded with the frieghts of all the world to give in exchange - then will it be seen that my labors were not in vain to advance the highest destinies of the country...". To Robert Tyler Esq. 3 pp. Plus address leaf. (# 65)
File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, beginning with the heyday of nation formation from 1776 to 1815 and ending with the building of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century. Many of the documents are original government publications such as constitutions, decrees, or presidential and congressional messages, and...
Dates:
1823-1893
[2-13-1861] Vance, Zebulon. To the citizens of the eighth Congressional district of North Carolina. Explaining that the Cotton States have “gladly seized upon the election of Lincoln as the occasion, rather than the cause for breaking up the Union”; they have labored “for disunion for thrity years, inflamed with magnificent and visionary conceptions of a great Southern Republic… to conquer and annex all the countries seated in the basin of the Gulf of Mexico” and Cuba as well. 7 pp. (Pm, # 54)
File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, beginning with the heyday of nation formation from 1776 to 1815 and ending with the building of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century. Many of the documents are original government publications such as constitutions, decrees, or presidential and congressional messages, and...
Dates:
1823-1893
02-12-1898 Sigsbee, Charles. Ordering supplies for his ship, the USS Maine, [three days before it was destroyed in an explosion]. Havana, Cuba. Also signed by Lt. Richard Wainwright, Commander of the USN. 1 p. (DS, #34)
File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, beginning with the heyday of nation formation from 1776 to 1815 and ending with the building of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century. Many of the documents are original government publications such as constitutions, decrees, or presidential and congressional messages, and...
Dates:
1823-1893
03-18-1893. Letter: Marti, Jose. Seeking financial support for El Tara, a revolutionary newspaper printed in Key West for distribution in Cuba. To the presidents of Cuban exiled clubs in Florida. 4 pp. (ALS, #33)
File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, beginning with the heyday of nation formation from 1776 to 1815 and ending with the building of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century. Many of the documents are original government publications such as constitutions, decrees, or presidential and congressional messages, and...
Dates:
1823-1893
[5-5-1823] [Texas currency] Very early currency for Austin's colony and Mexico. Due to a severe paper shortage, the currency was printed on the reverse of an out-dated papal bull.
File — Box: 3, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, beginning with the heyday of nation formation from 1776 to 1815 and ending with the building of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century. Many of the documents are original government publications such as constitutions, decrees, or presidential and congressional messages, and...
Dates:
1823-1893