José Augusto Escoto Cuban history and literature collection, ca. 1574-1922 (inclusive), ca.1715-1850 (bulk).

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Escoto, José Augusto,. José Augusto Escoto Cuban history and literature collection, ca. 1574-1922 (inclusive), ca.1715-1850 (bulk).

José Augusto Escoto Cuban history and literature collection, ca. 1574-1922 (inclusive), ca.1715-1850 (bulk).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81507781

Autograph manuscripts, correspondence, historical documents, printed items, and other materials pertaining to various aspects of Cuban history and culture. Included throughout are clippings, drawings, lithographs, portraits, photographs, sketches, individual issues of journals and newspapers, decrees, orders, obituaries, pamphlets and leaflets. The Correspondence series concerns literary, political, personal and family matters, originating in Cuba, Spain, the United States, and Mexico. The writers are mostly Cuban, although some are of Spanish and other nationalities. The Literary materials series contains items by and about mostly 19th-century Cuban (and some Spanish) authors. This section includes both materials by the author and materials that document the author's life and works. Included are autograph manuscripts for poetry, drama, and prose, translations, lectures, transcriptions, portraits, biographical miscellany, among other materials. The Historical materials series contains manuscript documents and printed materials relating to the intellectual and political history of 19th-century Cuba, up until the Spanish American War of 1898. Notable strengths of this portion of the collection include materials about the various Cuban independence movements and conspiracies of the mid-19th century, the Liceo Artístico y Literario de Matanzas, slavery, Jesuits, trade and demographic statistics, political administration, and schools and other cultural institutions. Notable 16th-century and 18th-century pamphlets and documents concern the history of the Catholic Church in Mexico; others concern the Dominican Republic, Panama, and Peru. Some of the prominent names included in this collection are: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga, José María Heredia, José Jacinto Milanés, Federico Milanés, Leopoldo O'Donnel y Joris, and Plácido.

63 boxes, 31 v. (25 linear ft.)

spa,

eng,

Houghton Library