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Documentos Relativos a la Reforma y a la Intervención
Francesa en México
Prepared by the Mexican Archives Project
March 10, 1995
Introduction
The Benson Latin American Collection's Documentos Relativos a la Reforma
y la Intervención Francesa en México form part of the Genaro
García Collection, which was purchased by the University of Texas
in 1921 from the heirs of Genaro García. The documents were
described by the Benson's Mexican Archives Project in January 1995.
The physical extent of the documents is 2.5 inches. They are in Spanish,
and are also available on microfilm.
The following guide is available in Rare Books Reference:
Castañeda, Carlos E. and Jack Autrey Dabbs, eds., Guide to the
Latin American Manuscripts in the University of Texas Library.
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1939.
The suggested citation is "Documentos Relativos a la Reforma y la
Intervención Francesa en México, 1851-1910, Benson Latin
American Collection, General Libraries, University of Texas at
Austin."
Arrangement Note
The documents are arranged into three series, then chronologically within
series. The series are: I. Correspondence. II.Typescripts. III.
Assorted documents.
Scope and Contents Note
Correspondence, typescripts, and assorted documents relating to the
reform movement, War of the Reform, and French intervention in Mexico in
the latter half of the nineteenth century. The bulk of the
correspondence, dated 1851-1883, includes letters from Benito
Juárez, Juan Álvarez, Ezequiel Montes, Ignacio Zaragoza,
Leonardo Márquez, Manuel Doblado, Antonio Balbuena, Santos
Degollado, Joaquín Degollado, Melchor Ocampo, Dolores Quesada de
Almonte, Ponciano Arriaga, Porfirio Díaz, Juan Nepomuceno Almonte,
Miguel Miramón, José Sánchez Facío, and other
persons from opposing factions of the conflicts. A letter dated 1907 to
Genaro García relays a copy of a letter from Juan B. Duarte
concerning his experiences in the war against the French intervention in
Zacatecas in late 1866 and early 1867.
Typescripts include copies of correspondence of Manuel Doblado, Porfirio
Díaz, José María Arteaga, and others; two reports by
Achille François Bazaine dated 1865 and their translations from
French to Spanish; a report on the death of Pedro Morena of the Francisco
Javier Mina Expedition and the location of his remains; a diary of Miguel
Miramón from March 17-April 1, 1859, concerning military events in
Veracruz; newspaper articles; hospital reports on war injuries with lists
of patients; and a manuscript by Leon Guzmán entitled "El Partido
constitucional : la, 2a y 3a época del Presidente D. Benito
Juárez."
Assorted documents in the collection include research notes about and a
newspaper clipping by Porfirio Díaz; a printed report dated 1894
about improvements made in Etla, Oaxaca, under the leadership of
Agustín Robles Arena; a diary of a journey from New York to Europe
in 1859; military orders; a report in English and its Spanish translation
on the imprisonment of Emperor Maximilian; a rough draft of an official
document from the office of the French commandant en chef in Mexico; and
a patriotic poem.
Partial Proper Name List
Almonte, Dolores Quesada de
Almonte, Juan N.
Álvarez, Antonio
Álvarez, Juan
Álvarez, Melchor
Arriaga, Ponciano
Arteaga, José María
Arteaga, Octaviana W. de
Balbuena, Antonio
Barragán, Jose A.
Bazaine, Achille François
Cadena, Trinidad de
Calvo, Manuel María
Carrión, Luis
Carrona, Ramón
Castillejo, Francisco
Castro, José Dolores
Ceballos, Juan Bautista
Cisneros, José Antonio?
Chavez, José María
Comonfort, Ignacio
Corona, Antonio
Degollado, Joaquín
Degollado, Santos
Díaz de Zollano, José M.
Díaz, Felipe
Díaz, Felix
Díaz, Porfirio
Doblado, Manuel
Duarte, Juan B.
Echevestre, José María
Elguero, Manuel
Escobar, Manuel María?
Espinosa, Pedro
Faboada, Antonio
Gamboa, José Antonio or
Gamboa, José María Prieto?
García, Carlos
Guzmán, León
Hall, Frederic
Haro, Benito
Haro y Tamariz, Antonio de
Hidalgo y Carpio, Luís?
Huerta, Epitacio
Inguanzo, José
Jiménez, José Victor
Juárez, Benito
Lerdo de Tejada, Miguel
Linaza, Feliciano de
Llave, Ignacio de la
Marmolejo, Mauro
Márquez, Leonardo
Medina, Dolores
Mejía, Tomás
Mina, Francisco Javier
Miramón, Miguel
Monterde, José Mariano
Montes, Ezequiel
Moreno, Joaquín
Moreno, Pedro
Muñoz Ledo, Octaviano
Ocampo, Melchor
Ogazón, Pedro
Olaguíbel, Francisco Modesto de
Ortiz, Octaviano
Pardo, Juan
Parga, Rafael
Parrodi, Anastasio
Prieto, Guillermo
Ramírez, Francisco
Ramírez, Ignacio
Robles Arenas, Agustín
Rubí, Domingo
Sánchez Facío, José
Sansgrave, Crescento
Santa Anna, Antonio López de
Santa Anna, Justo
Siliceo, Manuel
Sota Riva, Manuel de la
Terán Peredo, Jesús
Tlachiquera, Hacienda de
(San Felipe, Guanajuato)
Vega, Plácido
Vélez, Francisco A.
Zaragoza, Ignacio
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