W.B. Stephens collection, 1488-1936 (bulk 1559-1848).

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W.B. Stephens collection, 1488-1936 (bulk 1559-1848).

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Manuscripts and printed material focusing on the area of the southwestern U.S. (especially California and Texas) before 1836, then under Spanish and Mexican control, and on Mexico. Series I includes correspondence, legal documents, reports and other literary productions, appointments, instructions, printed material, and other items relating to the governance and history of New Spain and the Catholic Church. Topics represented are Indians, missions, the Inquisition, Mexico's Wars of Independence, relations between Texas and Mexico (1820-1845), the U.S.-Mexican War, and commerce and foreign trade. Series II consists of a collection of pamphlets published 1820-1822 concerning political conditions in Mexico, and ten bound volumes of Mexican government documents, decrees, broadsides, fragments of books on history and law, and other materials dated 1811-1851 concerning the history and governance of Mexico. (Four volumes deal primarily with Texas, California, New Mexico, and Coahuila). Series III contains printed decrees, proclamations, reports, circulars, etc. dated 1655-1936 and covering the same general subjects as Series I and II, with emphasis on the empire of Iturbide and the early Mexican republic.

12 linear ft.

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