Calleja del Rey, Félix María, conde de Calderón, 1755?-1828 Cordero y Bustamente, Manuel Antonio, 1753-1823 Herrera, Simon de, d. 1812
Call Number:
WA MSS S-1475 H4341
Image Count:
6
Abstract:
Copy of correspondence bewteen Simon de Herrera and Col. Manuel Antonio Cordero y Bustamente regarding a proposed military expedition from San Antonio de Bexar to New Mexico to be led by Francisco Amangual. All of the letters are countersigned by Félix María Calleja del Rey. The letters are accompanied by a folding table detailing the members of the expedition and types of ammunition.
Description:
Donated by Lindley Eberstadt in 1968. and In Spanish.
Subject (Geographic):
New Mexico--Discovery and exploration and Texas--Discovery and exploration
Franciosini, Lorenzo. Dialogos apazibles compuestos en Castellano y traduzidos en Toscano. 1707
Subject (Topic):
Italian language --Dialects --Italy --Tuscany, Italian language --Grammar --1500-1800, Spanish language --Conversation and phrase books --Italian, and Spanish language --Grammar --1500-1800
Copy of a letter by Juan José Hernández concerning his participation in a special session of the Ayuntamiento regarding the impending proclamation of secession by Texas. Hernández mentions President Santa Anna's appeal for acceptance of the proclamation and for a united effort to popularize this development. He also records the Ayuntamiento's agreement with the proposal and the names of the officials present.
Subject (Geographic):
Coahuila and Texas (Mexico)--Politics and government, Goliad (Tex.)--History, Mexico--History--1821-1861, and Texas--History--To 1846
Subject (Name):
Hernandez, Juan José,--fl. 1822 and Santa Anna, Antonio López de,--1794?-1876
William Watts Hart Davis, attorney, editor, military officer, and historian, was born on July 28, 1820 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He served in the Mexican War and Civil War and as a government official in the Territory of New Mexico (1853-1857)
Collection of notes on the family of William Shakespeare (1564-1616); also lists of clergy, sheriffs, nobles and members of Parliament; accounts in Spanish for 1715-1719; copies of wills and preambles of patents; lists of books and of the members of the Society of Antiquaries; English verse, etc.