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Benson Latin American Collection

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Inventory

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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