Political leader. Born 1803 and died 1880 in Mexico City. Educated as lawyer. Offices held: Primer Regidor del Ayuntamiento de México (1829), deputy to the Congreso de la Unión (first elected 1833), Minister of Justice, Minister of Hacienda (June-Aug. 1848), thrice Governor of the State of Mexico (1849, 1857, 1871), Director del Nacional Monte de Piedad. Imprisoned 1852-1854 during final presidency of Antonio López de Santa Anna. Named Emperor Maximilan's defender in May 1867. Worked to develop Mexico's law enforcement system, roads, railways, and industry.
For a complete chronology of Mariano Riva Palacio, see Part 1: Introduction to this guide.
The collections pertains to the governance of Mexico at federal, state, and local levels, to management of various institutions and haciendas, to social and economic conditions in Mexico, and to the activities of Mariano Riva Palacio and many other well-known figures of 19th century Mexico, plus documents relating to the settlement of the estate of Vicente Guerrero. Other names prominent in the collection are Juan Álvarez, Mariano Arista, Ignacio Comonfort, Atilano Sánchez Garayo, and Antonio López de Santa Anna.
This page presents Part 3: 1845-1846 of the collection guide. To access other parts of the guide see Related Material.
Arrangement is primarily chronological, with items numbered in accordance with the published guide:
Mariano Riva Palacio Collection, 1716-1880, Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin
The item level description of this guide follows the published calendar
Felicitations on new appointment; departure of Juan Álvarez with his troops, including over 2,000 Indians; Juanita Amat; death of Agustín [Amat?]; Antonio and Pepa Cardoso.
Felicitations on new appointment; recommendation for Juan Antonio Lanz, Tesorero Interino of the department; condition of the Hacienda Pública in Tabasco; replacement of General Ampudia.
Message delivered by Luis Colín; payment of $700 to Don Cristóbal; payment to Pendás (?); Vilela.
Introduction to Domingo Hernández, cura of Tampamolón; surrender of his
Acceptance of invitation to lodge at home of Riva Palacio on arrival in the capital; march to Tlalpam; discomfort of the troops.
Correspondence with the Ministro de la Guerra for arms; need for arms and equipment for troops before their entry into the capital; weapons left by Bravo at Cuernavaca.
Mariano Córdoba; transmittal of money; crops of chili and peas and rice; trade with Mexico.
Felicitations on new appointment; recovery from illness.
Suffering of prisoners in the fortress at Acapulco; order of the government for collection of food by the customs in Tlalpam and Tenango for their aid; failure of Antonio Algara to collect the food; request that similar order be issued for Tacubaya and Tenancingo.
Felicitations on new appointment; support of new government voted by the Asamblea; publication of documents in the
Problem of expense account; attitude of Tamariz; encouragement of the Santanistas; Prefect Pancho Zárate.
Account of his illness; plan to come to the capital to occupy his senatorial chair; Herrera; Pedraza; Rodríguez; Morales; Varela.
Conservatives in Cuilapa and Cuernavaca; insecurity of the mails; services with Guerrero.
Withdrawal of Santa Anna from the Cerro de San Juan with 400 men and retreat to Amozoque; Bravo's entry into Puebla; Inclán.
Approval of the new government; departure of Crescencio Chico Sein for the Senate; resignation as Deputy, and request for appointment as Promotor Fiscal de Hacienda to replace Crescencio Chico; complaint of illness.
News sent by the Juez de Paz of Tlalmanalco, Mariano Lizalde; General Miñón reported in Ozumba; preparations for action against Miñón; rumors of capture of Santa Anna by Montoya and Torrejón.
Santa Anna's flight reported by Bravo; halt at San Martín; meeting at Río Frío; withdrawal from Venta de Córdova; care of the sick; effect of climate on soldiers from Acapulco.
Report of entry of Álvarez' troops into Chalco; explanation of his service with troops of Santa Anna while Administrador de Aduana de San Juan del Río.
Felicitations on new appointment. Embossed design: Eagle with letters F. P.
Complaint of unjust accusations by Sub-Prefect Berra; charges of drunkeness and sedition; Colín's charge that he lodged General José Vicente Miñón; request for employment in the Renta de Tabacos in the capital; concern for the education of his children; request for withdrawal of the 8th Cavalry Regiment.
Services of Coronel de Inválidos de Puebla Manuel Joaquín Pérez Salazar and José María Pérez Salazar, his son; illness of father and poverty of the family; request for excuse for the son from last two years of his University studies as an aid to the family.
Gradual recovery from illness; offer of personal advice.
Desire to return to civilian life; participation in armed forces through dislike for Santa Anna and on order of Zenteno, Tesorero del Departamento de Querétaro.
Request for justice in the case of the capellanía promised Juan Evangelista Durán, son of Francisco Durán, by Canalizo as President.
Interview with Inclán; plot to transfer Santa Anna to Puebla; sentiment for summary execution; effect of the pleas of his daughter Guadalupe; route to Coatepec; Cenobio's guard over Santa Anna.
Authorization for drawing pay.
Congratulations on appointment; mission to Mazatlán for Álvarez. Embossed design as in 1487.
Imprisonment of Santa Anna in Perote; request for kind treatment; generous attitude of Pedraza; comforts provided by Diego Alcalde, Governor of the Fort; jury sessions; request by Santa Anna's daughter not to move him to Puebla; exile suggested; Inclán.
Congratulations on success of the revolution.
Request for clarification of source of his salary, whether from the Junta de Minería or from pay regularly made to generals; Valencia.
Congratulations on new government; shortage of news media.
Request for favorable decision in a case pending, on behalf of a friend. Embossed: WHATMAN TURKEY MILL and Crown.
Uprising in Veracruz and forced flight as a Santa Anna sympathizer; request for protection; plan to continue to Tabasco; request for intercession with the Ministry of War.
Death of son Senén (Zenón?); Manterola; theft of money from house of Luna & Co.; charges against Martín Riechi, son of José María Riechi; request for documents in his defense.
Departure of Crescencio Chico Sein for the Senate; request for appointment to replace him as Promotor Fiscal; Juzgado de Círcuita disbanded by Crispiniano del Castillo and replaced by the Promotor Fiscal; appointment of Baranda; advisability of abolishing the position.
Defense against charges in
Request for leniency for Santa Anna; comparison with the treatment of Iturbide and Guerrero; Puebla to be avoided; exile suggested.
Intended departure to serve in the Senate; recommendation that the duties of Promotor fiscal be divided among the Asesores del Departamento, as in the case of Baranda.
Felicitations on the new government; Santa Anna called the Atila Mexicano; trial of Santa Anna.
Return from Ajuzco and Huitzilaque to Cuernavaca; effect of cold weather; illness among the troops; popular dissatisfaction with Comandante General Gómez Daza, son-in-law of Vieyra; recommendation for appointment of Colonel Antonio Gómez; travel to Tixtla and Tlapa planned.
Intercession on behalf of his brother Mariano, who joined the Escuadrón Activo de Atlisco, under command of González Mendoza, organized by Santa Anna.
Protest against the rumored return of Rivera as Prefect of Taxco.
Notice of request for leave for Mariano Domínguez, forwarded to the Plana Mayor del Ejército.
Report on disarming of the Indians of Chilapa, except arms used for hunting; docility of the Indians.
Meeting with Juan Álvarez at Platanillo; freedom from individuals like Torrejón and Gayfero; confidence in the new government; messenger Juan Vega.
Recommendation for Lic. J. M. Ibarrarán for position as Juez 30 de Primera Instancia in Puebla; previous experience in the Juzgado de Letras Foráneas, the alcaldía segunda, and as regidor in the ayuntamiento.
Request for aid to Antonio Masse in his project for aid to Soconusco; commercial enterprise; visit to Church of San Pedro y San Pablo.
Request for favor to be shown Hilario Galván in recognition of his services with Lieutenant Colonel Felipe Briones; communication with Canales; departure for Tampico and Veracruz; services in Puebla against Santa Anna; death of Briones at the hands of bandits.
Protest against appointment of Ibarrarán as Juez de lo Criminal. Includes unsigned note to Ángulo, calling attention to the contents of the letter.
Letter in almost incomprehensible Spanish, complaining of the acts of the Indians; Juan Álvarez; Governor of Tlapa; Martín Ybaines (Ibáñez?); Pedro Agustín; Miguel; San Pedro de Xalpatlahuaca; disapproval of the Zoyatecos and Tlapanecos; Cuernavaca; Domingo Santiago; Cura de Tototepec; Cura Mateo Lupes (López?) Salmerón.
Success of government commission to restore peace in Chilapa, Tlapa, and the towns of Oaxaca; appointment of Colonel Ignacio Comonfort Prefect of Tlapa; arming of the Indians; need for money to pay for uniforms purchased in Acapulco, payable in Mazatlán; requirement of $20,000 to settle the problem of land ownership and pay for lands for the Indians; work of Diego and Cortés in settling the land problem; exemption from alcabalas; return of Chilapanecos to their lands.
Return to Oaxaca to attend personal affairs; illness with eye-disease; confidence in the future of the new government.
Recommendation for employment of a friend (unnamed) who distinguished himself by services with the Comandancia del Resguardo during the absence of José Antonio Ramírez.
Failure to sell beans in the capital; effort to borrow $40 from Colín; Juan López; tuition rate at San Gregorio; Rodríguez Puebla.
Article in
Disillusionment on return from the capital; illness at Tepecuacuilco; burning of Bravos and Chichihualco; return of some Chilapanecos to their homes; return from Tlapa; surrender of some arms to Moreno; illness and death among troops; treatment of Indians; appointment of Ignacio Comonfort at Tlapa.
Recommendation of friend Otero for position as Juez de Letras.
Receipt of unspecified request.
Transmittal of resignation of Lic. José Ignacio Villaseñor as Juez de Letras with request for favorable action. Includes draft of answer, dated February 22.
Complaints made by the
Discussion of the problem of cotton production and factories for manufacture of cloth.
Request for certificate as
Request for permission to go to San Juan del Río on business; refusal of such permission by the local authorities pending decision in a lawsuit.
Request for favorable action on letter of General Diego Argúelles, Primer Ayudante del Estado Mayor, for permission to move to Guadalupe for benefit of his health.
Review of employees in the Secretaría de Hacienda; request for recommendation on whether to retain Ignacio Vergara; proposed departure for Guaymas.
Complaint to Lic. Crispiniano del Castillo about poor equipment of the Second Cavalry Regiment; lack of horses and uniforms; better treatment of the First and Seventh Regiments; recommendation for promotion of Lieutenant Fernando Maruri left with Ignacio Cumplido; request for assignment as Secretario of the Comandancia General of Monterrey; replacement by Luis G. Solano.
Provision of lands for the Indians; exemption from the alcabala; desire for the services of Comonfort and General Palacios; recurrence of illness; concern for Tlapa; resident Prefect in Bravos; delivery of captured criminals to the Fortaleza de Acapulco; assassination of Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Gándara; transfer of criminals to Costa Chica for trial; request for publication of news in the papers; shortage of Jueces de Letras.
Censorship practised in Havana by Spanish authorities; comparison of Cuba with Mexico in the time of Venegas; comparison of Santa Anna with Captain General of Cuba; departure of Antonio García Gutiérrez for Mexico; plan to continue to New Orleans and Philadelphia to study the penetentiary system; Antonio Haro; Cuevas; Goleta
Recovery of Luis Colín from illness; request sent via Pablo Granados; Pancho Velázquez; request by General Argüelles for permit to move to Guadalupe.
Proposals for the Congress on importation of cotton; mills in Puebla.
Children of Luis Venegas recommended for Colegio de San Gregorio; Juan Rodríguez Puebla; Antonio Icaza.
Request for aid in employment for José E. Laredo (?); loss of business in Tampico in 1839.
Plan to return to the capital, as requested.
Rumors of secret arming of Indians; surrender of guns to Moreno at Tixtla de Guerrero and Acapulco; formation of the Batallón activo in Acapulco and Zacatula;
protest against new periodical
Request for free trade in cotton; monopoly of cotton by foreigners in Puebla; need for new factories; debt of $178,000.
Visit to home of his nephew Ortiz; scarlet fever at home of Palomar; Doloritas; Jesús (Palomar?); Calle de Cordobanes.
Approval of the new government; absence in Chihuahua; Senator Pedro María Anaya.
Shortage of equipment and money for troops at Acapulco; use of customs revenue.
Resignation of post as Juez de Letras in Tencitlán; quarrel with powerful family of the Sub-prefect; lawless attitude of the inhabitants; approval of Cristóbal Andrade.
Request for protection against injustice done brothers of Bernarda (?) for testimony given.
Petition of the town for restitution of the Ley orgánica of August 6, 1824 and the State Constitution of February 14, 1827, withdrawn in 1834; Juzgado de Primera Instancia removed in 1838 for opposing the Plan de Cuernavaca; petition to Pedraza.
Favorable attitude toward import of foreign cotton; conservative opinion in Puebla; effort to convince Diputado Espinosa; action of the Ayuntamiento; program for increasing agriculture; petition by cotton manufacturers to the Congress.
Collection of salary for Señora Guerrero in the name of his brother Javier.
Discussion with Arrangoiz on Texas Question; vote on annexation awaited; troop movement to the Río Bravo recommended; chartering of ships for service in the Pacific; withdrawal of Almonte in case of war; Domingo Revilla; plan to continue to New York and Philadelphia; Ignacio Trigueros; Antonio Haro in Havana.
Recommendation of Manuel Altamirano for Chair of Botany; student of Professor Cervantes; Juan de Dios Cañedo; proposed for Chair in Botany at Guadalajara; refused through influence of Alamán in favor of Miguel Bustamante his cousin; persecution and imprisonment by General Juvera for seduction; his record as insurgent.
Protest against article in
Desire to resign position as Administrador Principal de la Renta in Saltillo; local opposition to officials from other areas.
Collection of capitation tax; efforts to pacify the Indians in Oaxaca; rebels in Huajuapan; Tlachichilco; return to Tlapa on completion of mission; Rodríguez Puebla; Pedraza.
Celebration of annexation of Texas reported by Francisco Arrangoiz; Mariano Otero.
Return of Rivera to Prefecture of Taxco; letter to Herrera; rumors of Indian uprising spread by relatives of Vieyra; payment of militia; theft of arms; replacement of Rivera by García suggested; denunciation of Vieyra by Rocafuerte in 1832; approval of Méndez as Comandante Principal.
Recovery from recent illness; manufacture of book paper, lined paper, and cigarette paper.
Pacification of Indians in Tlalistaquilla, Tlapa, and Huajuapam; continued work in Teposcolula, Puebla, and Oaxaca; opposition inspired by Santa Anna.
Recommendation for José R. Aguilar; experience in the Administración del tabaco; writer's employment with firm of Hoffmann and Oleise (?); business trip to Tuxpan and Papantla.
Congratulations on speech made to the Senate. Embossed design: LEROUX EN MEXICO.
Bonds bought in 1824 and 1825; bonds secured by tobacco income; request for settlement of accounts.
Severe illness of Juan Francisco López; appointment of Riva Palacio as executor with his wife, Joaquina Iguera; trip to Axalco.
Illness; Guevara; Marianito Carrillo; Compañía experimental.
Itinerary via Puebla and Fortaleza de Perote; Iturbide; Brother Durem (Derem? Dusem?).
Citation on quality and prices of cloth for military uniforms.
Illness of friends; approval of Riva Palacio as legal representative.
Request for intervention in a legal case pending since 1844.
Watermark: Eagle and serpent; letters DIOS Y LIBERTAD.
Request for military supplies; General Gaona.
Income from customs at Veracruz, San Blas, Tampico, and Guaymas; Mazatlán; income from Tobacco Monopoly; plan for taxes.
Death of Juan López; care of the hacienda.
Death of Juan Francisco López; Tlalmanalco; care of hacienda at el Moral.
Recommendation for Juan Núñez; employment by Isidro Echave at the Panadería de la Merced.
Recommendation for Carlos M. Saavedra. Embossed design: Eagle and letters JARDEL LA ROQUE BORDEAUX.
Status of the national Treasury; expenses of the customs; debt to San Luis; Merino; Matamoros; order of Minister of War for payment to Garay; Vélez.
Death of Juan Francisco López; care of the hacienda.
Departure for Mexico with Antonio Gómez; influence of Vieyra in appointment of officials; Juzgado de Letras de Taxco; Lic. Mier; Lic. Rafael Solares; Prefecto Rivera; Lic. Manuel Labín.
Communications from Francisco Arrangoiz aboard the
Assistance given José Bejarano cited; request for similar aid to the Administrador de Tabacos in Fresnillo.
Status of the Treasury; payment to commander of the Battalion San Luis Vidal; Lebrija. Two copies.
Payment of garrison; credit from San Luis; Batallón San Luis Vidal; communication with Ministro de la Guerra, Ministro de Relaciones, and Ministerio de Hacienda; Sr. Lebrija; payments to Colegio de San Juan de Letrán; money taken to Toluca; mules from Amozoc; Colonel Escobar; letters of credit from Aduanas.
Request for replacement as Treasurer; message from Luis Cuevas; plea of ill health.
Covers the period March 13-19. Disbursements to General Paredes, G. Dremine (?), Serment Fort, Colegio de San Ildefonso, Filisola, Lieutenant Colonel F. Garay, Manuel Merino for travel to Matamoros, Toluca, Piquete de Querétaro, Batallón de San Blas, Convento de San Francisco, F. P. Acuña, Piquete de Celaya, San Luis Potosí; military expenses; Amozoc; Tomacatepec.
Message for Domingo Revilla concerning Texas; Galvestón.
Transmittal of resignation of Pedro José Echeverría, Ministro de Hacienda, for ill health; duties left temporarily to Mariano Riva Palacio.
Request for intervention in delayed legal case in Sombrerete against Juan N. Fernández.
Report on Valenciana and Yuriria and appointments; Congressional nullification of contract between Santa Anna and the Compañía Anglo-Mexicana.
Request for replacement on account of illness; receipts from Mazatlán.
Recommendation for Lic. José María Terán, applicant for a position.
Completion of mission to put down Indian revolts; return to private life.
Loss of position in Tilotepec and San Luis Potosí; life in the Mesón de San Agustín; request for aid in finding employment.
Care of el Moral; fields at Tenango; Don Tirso; condition of the crops; milling at Chalco.
Recommendation for Manuel M. Feulet, in the military service at Veracruz.
Approval of Luis de la Rosa as his successor as Ministro de Hacienda.
Request for intervention in his sudden transfer from the capital; opposition to Santa Anna; dislike for service under General Paredes.
Relations with Manuel Ximeno and Colonel Joaquín Zarco.
Recommendation for a friend. Embossed design as in 1639.
Recommendation for Lieutenant Colonel Ignacio Rodríguez, applicant for post as Administrador de Correos in Coahuila.
Resignation of Echeverría; discussion of amnesty to be offered the Santanistas; danger of Santanistas' using the Texas Expedition as excuse to return Santa Anna; Cuevas.
Request for payment for use of pastures.
Request for aid in returning José Bejarano to his position as Administrador de Tabacos in Fresnillo.
Recommendation for Lic. Valente Hita to replace Chico; Jaral.
Praise for the Junta established by the Supremo Gobierno and the correctness of its proceedings.
Mail received in Silacayoapam, Department of Oaxaca; Chilapa; development of new areas by settlers; comparison with policy of Bravo; Sousa; Dumarsei (?); recommendation for Francisco Rayón, applicant for office in Acapulco; Cortés; Diego Álvarez.
Recommendation of Carlos Both as bookbinder for the
Refusal of the Compañía Lancasteriana to continue school for artisans; Echeverría; Mier y Terán; Río de la Lora(?).
Replacement of Crescencio Chico Sein(?) as Promotor Fiscal; recommendation for Lic. Guerra Manzanares.
Transmittal of recommendation for Antonio Guerra Manzanares to replace Chico; rumors of resignations of Riva Palacio and Cuevas in favor of Jiménez; opposition to proposal of Peña and Solana to continue the trial of Santa Anna; return of General Lombardini; growth of military opinion favoring recall of Santa Anna in the event of hostilities in Texas; Pedraza; Rodríguez Puebla; discussions of the Asamblea Departamental; constitutional reform.
Business affairs with Reyes Veramendi and Otero; Jacinto Pérez; Lic. Mariano Vargas; Francisco Espinosa de los Monteros, son-in-law of Gorostiza.
Recognition of Jacinto Pérez as a business opponent.
Notice of shortage of funds.
Recommendation for Norberto Bello López to transfer from the Administración de Rentas in Tixtla to that in Tlaquiltenango, Cuernavaca, or Tenancingo.
Request for loan; efforts made to borrow from Ignacio Cumplido; debts in San Luis (Potosí) and Zacatecas.
Request for permission for his brother Juan N. Almonte to return through the North; news of the annexation of Texas.
Indignation over affairs north of Mexico; danger of sending more troops to Iguala; government at Teloloapan; need for federal government; return to La Providencia.
Note on recent earthquake; condition of the fields; illness of Luis Colín.
Damage caused by recent earthquake; walls at Santa Marta.
Conduct of business affairs.
Transmittal of requests from others.
Sudden transfer of the Chamber of Deputies to the University building.
News of plans of General Rea for an uprising; rumors of plots in the capital; request for surveillance of García Conde, Pedraza, Rodríguez Puebla, Otero, and others using the title of Federalists; concern over government of Herrera; Lieutenant Colonel Loeza; Haroa (?).
Appointment of Couto; Junta de San Ildefonso.
Transmittal of pension for Widow of Guerrero.
Opposition of General Mejía in Saltillo on account of the recent revolution; position of Governor offered writer by Cuevas; efforts of General Arista to foment trouble in Coahuila; Mejía's overt support of Santa Anna to deceive Woll; Fernández del Castillo.
Effects of recent earthquakes; transmittal of small sum for the local priest.
Request for intervention on behalf of Presbítero Domingo José Hernández with the Archbishop.
Receipt of permit; arrival in Alvarado.
Discussions of reforms in the State Assembly; vote in favor of Federalism; danger from pro-Santanistas; announcement sent by Cuevas; public education; severe earthquakes in Zacatecas; fire in the powder factory; San Miguel el Grande; Silao.
Offer of the use of his home to Riva Palacio and family; damage caused by earthquakes.
Report of Rafael Carrera to the Junta de Fomento de Minería; quicksilver business; reorganization of the Mineral de Ángeles; Santa María del Tequezquite; Ernesto Vezguez (Vázquez?).
Purchase of mules from Tirzo Conde; earthquakes; Chalco; Francisco Velázquez at Hacienda de la Asunción; corn and wheat crops.
Confusion of letters in the Mails; Silacayoapam; Tlalistaquilla; letter of Bravo; Pedro Vélez; Costa Chica; General Rea's suspected plans; Tlapa; Misteca.
Claim of Francisco Parra y Jiménez on the Department for back services; Juzgado de Letras; José Antonio Ondis (Oudis?); Vicente's entry into college.
Return to care for family; earthquakes; resignation of position as Deputy; request for appointment to office of Promotor Fiscal de Hacienda; death of Chico.
Request for aid in transferring to the Primer Regimiento Activo de México.
Recommendation for Luis de la Rosa to replace Salvador Hidalgo or Jesús Medina.
Return of letter erroneously shown for Pablo José de Mece instead of Sr. Martel.
Fear of collaboration between Bravo and Santa Anna to discredit Álvarez; rumors in Chilpancingo area and Tixtla; Acapulco; Iniestra; preparations of Distrito de Acapulco for defense against the U.S.; attention given to Petacalco, Zihuatanejo, and Papanoa; Veracruz; Tamaulipas; Matamoros; appointment of Gómez as Comandante in Iguala; General Rea (?).
Recommendation for Francisco Valenzuela for a scholarship in one of the colleges; Otero; San Ildefonso.
Contract for Army uniforms; García Conde.
Delivery date of printed
Recommendation for aid to López.
Recommendation for Antonio Romero, applicant for position in Tribunal Superior de Guadalajara.
Recommendation for Joaquín Sánchez Munive, applicant for position at Cuernavaca.
Widespread approval of government in the interior departments; absence of opposition press; favorable attitude of troops toward Paredes; recommendation for Lic. Manuel Junín (?) as Promotor Fiscal in Guanajuato.
Recommendation for Francisco Guerrero, applicant for position as Agente de Negocios; death of his cousin Agustín Elgusa (Elguca?).
Request for position in the Adminisración de Cuernavaca; Juan Álvarez; application sent to General Miguel Barreiro; public opinion in Tixtla.
Difficulties in raising silkworms in Morelia; encouragement of the silk industry.
Recommendation for Patricio Barbosa, applicant for position in the Fiscalia de Guanajuato.
Indiscreet publication of correspondence by Carrasquedo.
Arrival of four U.S. warships in Veracruz; tendency of public opinion to favor more severe measures for the nation's honor.
Approval of Cuevas' stand on the Texas Question; transmittal of pending legal problems in Guanajuato; Tesorero Ignacio Portu; Dr. Garza.
Contract with Jourdain and Lumber for work on artesian wells; Governor Ruiz; damage to wells by earthquakes; Thivole, editor of the
Transfers of military personnel to Sonora, Sinaloa, and California; request for special consideration.
Request for personal attention to travel of María del Carmen and María Rosa Rivas from Acapulco to school in the capital; departure for the Costa Grande.
Approval of policy toward Bravo and new negotiations with the Republic of Texas; despair of recovering Texas since 1835 (1836?); inadvisability of being involved in war; disorganization of the Ramo de Guerra; inadequate state of the Treasury; loss of Texas blamed on Legislators of 1824; Mexico's heavy losses in Texas; danger of losing New Mexico and California; regrets over permits given Juan Felipe Austin; Mexican colonists on the Río Guadalupe (Named for Guadalupe Victoria); uniforms purchased from Souza in Mazatlán.
Legal suit over property. Includes also unsigned draft of answer, Texcalyacac, May 11, 1845, on collection of debt.
Request for appointment for Mariano Viudas; appointment to the jail at Tepeji; office held in Tlapa; continued illness; interest of Comonfort; war experience; Covarrubias; request that General Mejía not be sent back to Coahuila.
Transmittal by Javier Echeverría of the $250 pesos pension for the widow of Guerrero; payment by Administrador de la Aduana.
Plan of Álvarez and Pinzón; inflammatory newspaper articles; rumors of coalition under Paredes; reported agreement between Santanistas and Faristas; opinion of Santa Anna; Elorriaga; hope for peaceful settlement of Texas question; separatist movement at Guadalajara; editors of the
Appointment to head the Juzgado; reports from Puebla; request for copy of Riva Palacio's
Appointment as Fiscal propietario de la Suprema Corte de Justicia by the Congreso General.
Request for recognition of title as Escribano público; need for remedying injustices of previous administration; policy of the Tribunal de Minería.
Efforts of the Junta Departamental to collect Capitation taxes in arrears; poverty of the area; inadequacy of other taxes to support the garrison; membership of Junta unchanged from previous administration.
Recommendation for Lic. Antonio Guerra Manzanares to replace the late Chico as Promotor Fiscal.
Care for girls coming from Acapulco; Medina; San Juan de Dios; Hermanas de la Caridad; Rodríguez; payment expected from Cuevas.
Introduction to two businessmen interested in establishing factory for water-proof cloth with rubber coating, made by machines.
Recommendation of S. Delgado for appointment to the Aduanas Marítimas.
Recommendation of Escribano Joaquín Argüelles; General Guerra Manzanares.
Request for payment of salaries for employees of the Juzgado Primero del Ramo Criminal of the district.
Transmittal of letter from the Rector de Tepotzotlán; rebel activity.
Recommendation for Luciano Trujillo; Trigueros.
Request for appointment to Juzgado de Letras de Teotihuacán; death of Lic. Ignacio Lovis Llano; approval of the Supremo Gobierno.
Request for appointment to the Juzgado de Teotihuacán; death of Lovis y Llano.
Recommendation of José Marzán for employment; Ángel Céspedes; Pepe Ramón Céspedes; Quijano.
Arrival of Manuel Rivera; Mineral; Ajuchitlán; acts of the Supremo Gobierno Departamental; charges against Rivera; attitude of Rincón; opposition to Vieyra, Santibáñez, Daza, and Rivera; Don Diego [Álvarez]; Encarnación [Álvarez].
Recommendation for Barraza for the appointment to the Juzgado de San Juan Teotihuacán; earlier appointment to Juzgado de Distrito de San Luis.
Recommendation for Bonillo for appointment as Ministro del Tribunal Superior de Jalisco; duties of the Ministro de Guerra and Ministro de la Hacienda; local support for the Government; Parres.
Opposition to the federalists; slow recovery from illness; need for return to academic duties; Marcos Esparza; wearing of the uniform; business transaction with Rosa; Cuevas.
Transmittal of another document.
Petition of Señora Mejía; Tesorería General; García Conde.
Congratulations on birth of new son; destruction of wheat crop by storms; death of some livestock; Cadena; Dolores.
Transmittal of letter from J. de García Sancho of Bordeaux; export of money; purchase of Zarzaparrilla and vanilla; grain.
Recommendation for Colonel Chavero and Lieutenant Colonel Vicario y Zarco.
Lic. Manuel Fernández recommended for appointment as Juez interino del Partido de San Juan Teotihuacán; death of Lic. Ignacio Lovis, Juez propietario.
Request for aid in the form of a scholarship for Ignacio Hidalgo, Primianista de Canones y Leyes in the Colegio de San Ildefonso. Embossed design as in 1639.
Appointment to the Comandancia Principal; request for support of garrison made by Colonel Francisco Sánchez, commander of the Escuadrón de Bravos in Iguala; request for reimbursement for expenses of the Escuadrón.
Departure of Lic. Ángel Claro, Fiscal de Hacienda; appointment of Lic. Manuel O'Horan by General Ampudia; approval by Supremo Gobierno.
Reference to: Letter to Luis G. Cuevas, explaining his resignation.
Illness of Guadalupe.
Interview with Basoco; agreement with Varela and Lacunza; Francisco Fagoaga; Benigno (?) Bustamante.
Suspension of work on the Colegio for lack of funds; establishment of legality of $8,000 donated by the Archicofradía del Santísimo.
Request for more pay for the employees of the Juzgado Primero del Ramo Criminal of the District. On back: San Ildefonso; Felipe N. del Barrio.
Continued illness; order to print pamphlet on Texas in the
Request for action on legal business pending in the Ministerio de Hacienda.
Request for action on decisions pending in the Suprema Corte and Ministerio de Guerra.
Recommendation for Comandante de Escuadrón Ramón Torres.
Discussion of amnesty and the Texas question in the Legislature; appreciation of the
Resignation as Secretario de Justicia.
Praise given by Alamán and appointment by the Dirección General de Industria; interest in new appointment, such as the
Injustice charged against the Segunda Sala de la Corte de Justicia; law of amnesty; efforts of Fiscal Casasola to free him. Embossed design: SM.
Illness of Riva Palacio; return of Juan Álvarez from the coast; request of General Tomás Mor[]o for pay for the Compañía Veterana; desertion rate; need for a protector of the Indians; unsettled problem of Indian lands, especially in the Distrito de Chilapa; Comandante Vicente Llorente appointed by previous administration; Lieutenant Colonel José Maza; danger of conflict between Álvarez and Moreno; troops on Costa Grande and Costa Chica; Teloloapam; Captain Miguel Suárez; appointments by Santa Anna.
Disinclination of Santa Anna to embark; baggage in customs at Jalapa; ships awaiting at Sacrificios; efforts of Inclán (?) to hasten his departure.
Rumors spread by French Consul and captain of a French ship; article transmitted for Cumplido.
Recommendation for Escribano José María Tello.
Incident involving French citizens Gaucheron and Berneu (?) and captain of the French ship
Liberality of the Supremo Gobierno; Luis Colín and Tirso Conde; effect of the amnesty; garrison at Perote; request for position as Ayudante del Estado Mayor.
Commercial plan proposed to the Ministro de Hacienda; difficulty of obtaining answer; insult by Ramón González; request for intercession by Riva Palacio.
Departure of General Manuel Micheltorena for Mexico with messages; appointment of Lieutenant Colonel José María Castañares as Ministro fiscal of the Superior Tribunal; legal difficulties caused by withdrawal of the Bases Orgánicas; irregularity in pay.
Campaigns anticipated by presidential candidates Joaquín Herrera, Luis Cuevas, Manuel Gómez Pedraza, Valentín Gómez Farías, and Generals Paredes and Almonte; attitudes of the Samantores(?) of Mexico and Muñoz Ledo; publications in the
Delay of the packet and subsequent delay in departure of Santa Anna; trip from Perote to Banderilla and Jalapa; communication with General Inclán; order of Supreme Court for loading of furniture refused by the Juez de Letras; travel to El Puente; Pancho Castro; impounded funds of Santa Anna; Manuel de Viga; loading of baggage of Sra. Santa Anna; list of passengers in the Santa Anna party; daughter Carmen; nephew Manuel Santa Anna.
Development of the Texas question in Congress; administration of Mexico since San Jacinto; impossibility of establishing a monarchy in Mexico; U.S. readiness to capitalize on revolt in California; dislike for Micheltorena; rumors of revolution in Mexico; fear of the return of Santa Anna as dictator; rerouting of the
Meeting of Lafragua, Espinosa de los Monteros, Algarde, Martínez de Castro, Pérez y Vargas; visit to Otero. Embossed design: J. WHATMAN 1840.
Presidential race; plan of Pedraza; tendency of state Assembly to favor Paredes or Farías; Herrera; interference of illness with social obligations; inability of doctors to cure illness; request for back pay; loan from Pérez Gálvez; Valenciana; article on Texas in the
Recommendation for Ildefonso Rivas for permit to administer his own property. Back of letter has notes on other duties: Vázquez; Bishopric of Veracruz; Church buildings.
Complaint of illness and poverty; request for advance in pay; similar request to the Ministro de Hacienda.
Return to civilian life; need for employment; Lieutenant Colonel Florentino del Castillo; the Administración de Rentas de San Juan del Río.
Request for intercession with the Ministro de Hacienda for quick answer to pending negotiations; plea of illness and indigence; Luis de la Rosa; Pereda.
Illness of Riva Palacio; unjustified tolerance of the government toward the federalists; the Plan de Cuernavaca; the Siete Leyes; overthrow of the Constitution of 1824; administration of Santa Anna; loss of Texas blamed on Santa Anna;
opposition to war to recover Texas; gullibility of Farías; return of Rivera to Taxco; political unrest on the Costa Chica; complaint to the Ministro de Guerra; clipping from
Alarm raised by Cura Cervantes in Atlistaca(?) of revolt by Indians against Juan Álvarez; Tlapa; Totomixtlahuaca; Oztocingo; Zoyatlán; General Joaquín Rea; supply of arms; Ayutla; Costa Chica; Puebla; General Palacios; [Nicolás] Bravo; efforts of Juan Zenón García to stir up Indians at Río de Totol[t]zintla[n] and Mexcala; Comandancia de Tixtla; Chilapa.
Request for return of property impounded in case against Santa Anna.
Letter of Governor of Querétaro to the Supremo Gobierno concerning Centeno and Castillo; inclination toward gambling; rumor by Martínez; Juez Godoy; Administrador de Correos Manuel Martínez; gambling in Chalco.
Appointment of Sebastián Martínez as Administrador Interino de la Aduana Marítima de San Blas; complaints by Martín Rul; request for instructions to the Juez de Hacienda.
Request for influence with Ministro de Hacienda for payment of debt.
Receipt of letter. Attached is answer by José Manuel Rivera, September 16, 1845, addressed to Jesucita Cordero, insisting upon payment of debt.
Rumors of revolt by Santa Anna and imprisonment of the Government Ministers in the Ciudadela; Torres Torija.
Recommendation for Manuel Altamirano in competition for the Cátedra de Botánica in the Colegio de Minería; payment of
Delegation from Ciudad Fernández y Pastora, Distrito de Río verde, complaining against the Administrador de la Aduana de Río verde; José O. Forns.
Request for intercession with the Tribunal Superior for favorable action on a petition by Ignacio Sierra y Rosso.
Letter to Paredes; request for approval of leave; hope to recover health in Mexico City.
Request for reimbursement of money paid to the Escuadrón de Bravos as salaries; need for arms; peaceful condition of the area; Ignacio Castañón; difficulty of Alejandro Román, Comandante de Teloloapan, with the political authority.
Conflict of circulars in the
Petition of Santiago Cruces.
Congratulations of quelling the recent revolt; imprisonment at San Juan de Ulúa recommended for Basadre, Gómez Farías, Olaguíbel, and Jiménez; payment to the Capellanías of Basoco.
Recurrence of illness; shortage of pay; plan to visit San Juan de la Chica; letter of Rosa; Irapuato; Salamanca; Tabasco; rumors of revolt in the capital;
Agreement between Paredes and the commanders of San Luis and Querétaro to oppose the revolt; need for back pay;
Harsh punishment for rebels recommended.
Request for permission to leave the country to avoid difficulties with the government.
Request for safeconduct from the Ministros de Guerra y Justicia; route via Veracruz to Europe and Bordeaux.
Recommendation for Lic. Víctor Márq[ue]z.
Attack on Herrera; congratulations on defeat of the rebels; Bernarda.
Request for lenient treatment for his brother Pedro; congratulations on success in quelling revolt.
Letter from Cuevas; need for better administration.
Promotion of Riva Palacio to Presidency of the Junta Cívica; plan for contract with bank; Diputado Palacios; delay in order for payment; Rosa; editorial in
Complaint about druggist's license granted Ignacio Rojas in Puebla without formality of an examination; subjects required in the examination; law of January 11, 1842; Bases Orgánicas; Bases de Tacubaya; request for license to be revoked. Includes a copy of the letter from the Prefectura del Distrito del Sur de Tampas, granting Rojas permit to practice pharmacy without an examination, signed Santa Anna de Tampas, December 5, 1843, M. S. Solórzano, Francisco Cordero, Ayuntamiento de esta Ciudad; earlier examination in Veracruz.
Opposition to Santanistas; notice in
Request for safeconduct; approval of the government; circular by Cuevas for his apprehension; Manuel.
Request for leave to go to Mexico for personal interview; Juez de Paz recommended as substitute.
Congratulations on success over rebels; improved conditions in Chihuahua; Fiscal del Tribunal Superior; suspension of the Tribunal.
Development of negotiations with the Junta Inspectadora; prison employees; Juez de Hacienda; need for back pay.
Return in company of General Álvarez; offer of employment by Álvarez; request for leave from position with the Aduana marítima de Acapulco; Doloritas.
Request for help in obtaining employment as Administrador de Rentas de Zacatecas; death of Ignacio Zaldúa.
Congratulations on success over rebels; Cuevas; Rosas; surprise at implication of Farías, Otero, Lafragua, Olaguíbel; work of Comonfort in Tlapa; Palacios; action on Cura Cervantes awaited from Bishop of Puebla; commander needed for the Batallón Activo de Acapulco; disapproval of Lic. Mier as Juez de Letras for Taxco for his reputation in the Juzgado de Chilapa; Tribunal Superior; Bravo; Archives of the Comandancia General; Diego.
Trip to Hacienda de la Peña; start of new paper factory; agricultural progress; sale of P. Jacinto; Padre Serbín.
Request for news about action of Supremo Gobierno on reimbursement for money loaned troops.
Transmittal of request to the Supremo Gobierno; disorder of the Comandante General de Marina and its bad impression of foreigners; imprisonment aboard a warship; Bernardita; Doloritas.
Bad administration in the military service caused by change in administration of finances; Ramo de Contabilidades; shortage of pay in Guanajuato and Guadalajara; march to San Luis Potosí; Parres.
Efforts to assure election of Joaquín Herrera; article in
Thanks for aid given his brother.
Cadena; Juez de Letras; plans for visit; completion of the wheat harvest; shortage of sugar; cura de Temamatla.
Complaint against Comandante General de Marina Gonzalo Ulloa; Bernardita.
Recommendation for Lic. Joaquín de Mier; appointment to Juzgado de Taxco; Juez de Chilapa; unpaid salary.
Request for intercession to speed decision on request before the Ministerio de Hacienda and Ministro de Relaciones, concerning pay; Aduana; Gochiva (Gochuva?).
Arrangements with the Administrador de Tabacos de Guanajuato for pay for troops; need for reimbursentment; departure for San Luis.
Delivery of gift for Antonio Pesqueira; Ángel Murillo; Doloritas.
Request made for Joaquín de Haro; General Manuel Portilla of the 3rd Regiment relieved; Celaya; Puebla; Veracruz; recuperation from illness.
Request for intercession to prevent punishment for mishandling funds of his company.
Delay in orders from Rosa; trip to Valenciana; plan for trip to mercury mines; rumors that Alamán is running the government; Junta de Industria.
Removal of the Escuadrón de Bravos; appointment of Ignacio Castañón to receive money due from the Ministro de Hacienda.
Transmittal of legal question of long standing; Manuel Urrea's departure for Sonora.
Recommendation of Lic. José Núñez de Cáceres for appointment as governor of Tamaulipas.
Request for aid in collecting money due.
Reply to article in the
Request for payment of salary; payment of money due Vicente Pozo; intercession with Cuevas; Rosa; Antonio Rodríguez Galván; Diego Archuleta; Hermana de la Caridad en Puebla.
Invitation to the Junta of July 1, 1845.
Delay in orders and pay; efforts of the local commander to be relieved of command by President Herrera; Paredes;
Payments to the Escuadrón de Bravos; income from customs at Iguala, Taxco, and Tololoapam; need for settlement of the account.
Request for appointment to Administrador de Rentas de Tehuacán de las Granadas; Tlalnepantla; resignation of Eligio Romero; Talleres nacionales; support of Pedraza; release from hospital.
Appointment of commission to solicit funds for the garrison; care of the children.
Criticism of the courtmartial of Rangel by the Consejo de Guerra; illness of General Torn[e]l at Hacienda del Cubo; request by the Tesorero Departamental de Guanajuato to the Ministro de la Guerra.
Gift of box of cigars delivered by Anastacio Craelio Núñez.
Order to assume duties as Oficial segundo del Ministerio Político de Marina, and to be replaced by Lic. Diego Castillo Montera; Auditoria de Guerra; request for reconsideration of order; extra cost to the Hacienda Nacional.
Request of the Padre Provincial del Carmen for renegotiation of mortgage; Pedro Berazueta; Lic. Sanz; Lic. Esteva; press of Navarrete.
Request for Governmental approval of renegotiation of contract for purchase of the Hacienda de Etúcuaro from the Padres Carmelitas; adjustment of price; condition of the hacienda; recommendations by Mariano Ansorena, Gaspar Alonso de Ceballos; and Joaquín Ladrón de Guevara; cattle; wells; windmills; quality of the sugar cane.
Return of illness; projects in Irapuato; visits to the mercury mines; Cuevas; Rosa; Federalist revolt in Tabasco under General Martínez; fear for return of Farías and Santa Anna.
Recommendation for José María de los Cobos for position in the Contaduría of the proposed Departamento de México; replacement of Luis Castro.
Capitan Juan N. Gómez recommended for position as Conserge del Instituto Mercantil to be formed under the Junta de Fomento del Comercio.
Rumors of Federalist pronunciamiento in the capital, starting in the Congreso and the Ayuntamiento and led by Pedraza and Valderas;
Aid given by Julián Torreblanca to the detachment of the 9th Regiment, acknowledged by Nicolás Bravo; death of Torreblanca's wife and need for reimbursement; collection placed in hands of José Antonio Ordaz (?).
Proposal for import of cotton; welfare of local producers; increase in national income; factories for processing cotton.
Extra expenses caused by illness; request for intercession to obtain extra pay lost by change in the Plana Mayor.
Request for intercession to obtain reimbursement for Julián Torreblanca for aid to Captain Francisco Ortiz and troops of the 9th Regiment of Cavalry; Ministerio de Guerra; Juan Álvarez; Nicolás Bravo; Feliciana; Guadalupe; Dolores.
Order by the Comisaria de Guerra y Marítima for payment of back salary; Lorenzo Rodríguez authorized to settle accounts.
Need for pay for troops; leave for Parres; Departmental income; efforts to obtain co-operation of other offices; local opposition to Paredes. Includes draft of answer, warning that Bustamante may replace him; warning against Barajas.
Recommendation for Pascual (Pascasio?) Dávalos; license as
Departure for San Juan del Río to assume duties in the Aduana; temporary illness.
Request for loan.
Request for interview to settle the limits of the Costa Chica.
Request for interview; the Junta Patriótica; duties at the Cabildo; ill health.
Projected appointment of Llorente to replace José Maza in Acapulco; illness of Maza; precautions for passage of troops en route to California via Acapulco; political feeling in the South; movement to place Bravo in Presidency before the election; Zumpango; Chilpancingo; uneasiness in Tlapa; orders from Bishop of Puebla for Padre Cervantes to leave; departure of General Palacios from Tlapa in Costa Chica and replacement by Rea; García Conde; Cura Foráneo.
Delay in interview caused revolt of June 6; offer to help negotiate loan of three million pesos.
Proposed replacement of Joaquín Rea by General Mariano Palacios; land dispute in Chilapa; interest of Álvarez; local suspicion of new commander; injustice suffered under Colonel Villarreal; unrest in Costa Chica; proposed interview with Álvarez at Petatlán; Tlapa.
Request for payment for publication of the
Operation of the Colegio de Minería; recommendation for Gabriel Moreno; Pedraza; Zárate.
Need for money to pay troops; consultation with García Conde; money expected from Mexico and Guadalajara.
Protest over reduction from Primer Comandante to Segundo. Includes copies of two communications:
Good impression made by prision in New Haven; plan to visit Charleston and Worcester, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania; friendship of Granja; newspaper reports of Jones and Mexico; lack of war spirit in the U. S.; acceptance of Texas; superiority of Mexican military effort; opposition to U. S. Texas policy voiced by Sr. Siliman of Yale; Revilla; Prieto.
Need for money to pay soldiers; efforts to borrow money; Cuevas; failure of departmental governments to furnish money for troops.
Watermark: PAPEL SELLADO DE 1844 Y 1845.
Certificate of the Cura Rector de la Parroquia del Sagraria de la Santa Iglesia Catedral; living children of María Ignacia Ortiz de Rosas listed as María Josefa, María del Refugio Alba y Ortiz de Rosas, also Juan Felipe, María Candelaria, Manuel María, and Guadalupe; Antonia Alba Ortiz de Rosas; Francisco María Ortiz.
Request for appointment by the Tribunal Superior to office of Juez interino de lo Criminal.
Receipt of money for operation of schools; need for back pay; Rosa; false rumors about at uprising; settlement of revolt in Tabasco; recommendation for members of the family Pairás of Tabasco; Lic. Rivera.
Preparation of report.
Printed letterhead.
Note on gifts of fish and cigars; canned fish.
Receipt of order for back pay; trip to Irapuato; plan for exhibition of local products; printing technique; Cumplido; prospect of war over Texas.
Elorriaga recommended as Governor for Durango; illness of daughter; Rosa.
Meeting of Junta patriótica.
Transmittal of speech made before the proposed Instituto Comercial.
Lic. Francisco Barraza recommended for the Juzgado de Letras de Teotihuacán.
Departure of General Rangel from Acapulco en route to Chilpancingo; suspicions of Rangel; fear of anti-government plot by Rea, Comonfort, and Palacios.
Concern over Texas question; relations with Tornel; lung infection in Toluca; Cuevas; danger of pronunciamiento in Zacatecas by Gordiano Guzmán and in Jalisco; danger of sending troops to Texas, leaving the interior to rebels; explanation of his own conduct.
Request for date of order concerning representation of towns by the Síndicos de los Ayuntamientos; Distrito de Toluca; accusation against Piña.
Transmittal of gift of cigars and candy.
Welcome to holiday on the hacienda.
Memories of service with Victoria at El Pico de Toluca; rumors of a change in government, involving Baranda; Almonte favored by the clerics; Padre Barajas; criticism of Riva Palacio and Cuevas; Cuevas favored by Centralists and Escoceses; Rosa; departure from Guanajuato delayed by order of the Asamblea; discussion of contract with the Casa de Moneda.
Efforts to obtain reimbursement for loan to the Escuadrón de Bravos; payment refused Ignacio Castañón by the Ministro de Hacienda.
Watermark: PAPEL SELLADO.
Income from contract for road from Perote to Veracruz; Josefa de Alba de Negrete; Antonia de Alba de Ortiz; Refugio de Alba; Juan Felipe de Alba of Guadalajara; José María Garrido Vicuña; Ana María de Alba; Juan Vicuña. Embossed seal.
Birth of daughter; the Texas Question; Joaquín Herrera favored by the Asamblea; complaint to Cuevas about the contract with the Casa de Moneda; criticism of foreigners.
Tlalmanalco; Moral; rain; Hacienda de la Asunción.
Request for repayment of loan to the Government.
Need for establishment of peace and order.
Services of Lieutenant Colonel Juan Pioquinto del Orbe; persecution by General Julián Juvera.
Texas Question; troop movement to California; gloomy predictions about the war with the U. S.; recommendation for heavy settlement in Nacodoches and San Felipe de Austin as alternative; need for food and equipment in Acapulco; Paso del Papagayo.
Summary of the condition of the division and its finances; inadvisability of marching on Monterrey without more equipment and better organization; warning of Arista that Federalists may take advantage of the war to return to power.
Transmittal of the Cuadro Sinóptico by Ocampo for presenting public lessons in agriculture; funds for mining and industry in charge of Rubio; Hacienda de la Asunción to be used as example; Sra. Fagoaga.
Receipt of the play by Ocampo for lessons in the Escuela de Agricultura; Sra. Fagoaga; Hacienda de la Asención.
Liquidation of accounts of Echeverría; meeting of the Junta; request for delay in the change.
Opposition to contract with the Casa de Moneda; ill health; conflict in local interests and the Erario Nacional; Cadena; Martínez de Cota; María Macario del Río.
Request for renegotiation of contract by Mariano Larreátegui for purchase of Hacienda de Etúcuaro; error in price shown; condition of the hacienda; refuge of rebels.
Asamblea vote in favor of Joaquín Herrera; weather; drought; contract with the Casa de Moneda; ill health.
Request for interview; complaint against treatment by Peón at the Ministerio de Hacienda.
Request for pay accrued during illness; example of Lieutenant Colonel Plutarco Cabrera; resignation of Gutiérrez; García Conde.
Request for detailed accounts for settlement of claims.
Load of cotton from the Costa Grande sent by Enrique Eduardo Virmond for Señores Del Río Hermanos; load conducted from Acapulco by arriero José Calvo; problem of transportation.
Transmittal of election tickets for August 10.
Preparations for departure for Mexico; solution of uprising in Tabasco.
Troop movement to California; war with Texas and the North; poverty of the nation; advice not to break off commercial relations with the U. S.; increase in water transportation by U.S. shippers; plan to go to Chilapa to meet Comonfort and Palacios; efforts of Padre Cervantes to disturb the peace; training of Indians at Totomixtlahuaca; receipt of guns from General Rea; meeting with troops at Chilpancingo.
Request for certificate of services rendered in the recent change of government; messages from Paredes; protection in the streets; Teatro Nacional; Cuevas; Mariano Otero.
Request for aid to Juan B. Boivin in obtaining patents for manufacture of waterproof cloth; need for new industry in Mexico. Note on back: Dn. Luis Robaho(?) dros de Azucares y Agts. pr S. G.
Gift of basket of pears; Calle del Hospicio de San Nicolás.
Request for aid in obtaining promotion for José María Ortiz in the Aduana; La Contaduría; qualifications of the other applicants.
Criticism of Robles' policy on salaries; Junta de Minería; Juzgado de Capellanías; pessimistic feeling toward the Republic.
Election of Herrera; end of uprising in Tabasco; the Texas problem; Elorriaga named Governor of Durango; rumors of a pronunciamiento by Paredes in San Luis Potosí.
Transmittal of notes on a secret meeting in Minería.
Recommendation for Mariano Hermosillo, applicant for position in the Contaduría of the proposed Department.
Recommendation for Rafael Durán for position as Guardia de la Aduana Marítima de Acapulco; death of Ramón Zárate.
Bill for $903.
Appointment of Lic. Mariano Navarro to the Rectorate; reapportionment of the salaries; meeting of the faculty for consultation.
Request for recommendation to Joaquin Noriega; payment of salaries reduced in the Junta Departamental; Juzgados de Paz; Sub-prefecto Antonio Flon (Flores?); Ayotzingo; Prefecto de Texcoco Noriega; request for clothing; Micaela.
Offer of financial aid to the college; establishment of advisory board; Lic. Mariano Navarro appointed Mayordomo; examination of title papers.
Rumors of triumvirate with Farías, Bravo, and Valencia; local opinion favoring the federation; Fernando Ramírez mentioned to succeed Riva Palacio, Almonte to be Minister of War, and Antonio Garay to be Minister of Hacienda; Cuevas; departure of Paredes for the capital; Rodríguez Puebla.
Maladministration of the college; unequal arrangement of salaries for the Catedráticos and Preceptor; living conditions for the students; inadequacy of religious services; program for improvement of the college.
Another copy of No. 1925.
Another copy of No. 1923.
List of salaries for the Rector, Vice-Rector y Capellán; Mayordomo; Catedráticos de Jurisprudencia; Catedráticos de Filosofía; Catedráticos de gramática latina; Preceptor de idioma francés; Preceptor de dibujo; Preceptor de primeras letras; Sacristía.
Copy of No. 1928.
Interview with Pedraza and Peña y Peña; inaccessability of Echeverría; payment of troops by the Aduana; exhaustion of Arista and Inclán.
Interview with Palacios and Comonfort at Chilapa; agreement to meet General Rea; settlement of Tabasco problem; election of Herrera by Departments of México, Puebla, Veracruz, Querétaro, Guanajuato, and Morelia; attitude of Comonfort toward Padre Cervantes.
Acknowledgement and acceptance in the name of the President of the resignation of all of the Ministers. Addressed to Diputado D. Mariano Riva Palacio.
Recommendation for Lic. Manuel Guerra to fill vacancy as Juzgado de Letras in San Juan Teotihuacán; Abogado de pobres; Juez de Letras.
Request for interview to help choose new Ministers.
Report on inspection of schools; San Miguel Tacámbaro; Irapuato; new schools for Talpa and Apano; comparison with European system; Paris; Bologna; Oxford; Edinburgh; Louvain; Salamanca; Coimbra; need for a bookstore in Department of Guanajuato; need for dictionaries; aid of cabildos ecclesiásticos to education in Puebla, Guadalajara, and Michoacán; comparison with Havana; poor qualifications of the faculty; instructional methods; no increase in colleges recommended; Rodríguez; Junta de Estudios; rumors of replacement of Riva Palacio by Peña y Peña and Cuevas by Pedraza.
Recommendation for Felipe Sánchez, new
Approval of request for three months; leave. Addressed to Mariano Riva Palacio, Diputado en el Congreso Nacional.
Failure of the Tesorero Departmental to pay salaries; dependence on the Casa de Comercio del Puerto de Mazatlán; vote of the Asamblea de Sonora favoring Herrera.
Diplomatic efforts to aid P. Bullon; arrival of funds at the Banco Jorlonia (?); search for skilled painters.
Transmittal of issue of
Preparations for departure; newspaper reports on Riva Palacio.
Newspaper reports of the change in ministry; Pedraza; elections.
Comments on the change in Ministry.
Election of Riva Palacio as Académico de honor by the Junta Superior de Gobierno de la Academia. Includes draft of acceptance by Riva Palacio, August 22, 1845, unsigned.
Comments on change in Ministry; change in attitude of some Federalists; approval of election of Herrera; Comonfort's relations with Rea in Tlapa and Chilapa; Rodríguez Puebla.
Loss of parish funds; dependence on contributions.
Comments on change in Ministry; praise for work in the Cabinet.
Ill health; French doctor; reforms in the Bases affecting the Ministros de la Suprema Corte de Justicia.
Transmittal of document to Manuel Gómez Pedraza.
Family affairs; gift of fruit basket.
Departure of Riva Palacio for his hacienda.
Delays in the mails; Mariano Avelina (?); Mariano Córdoba de Quatichan (?) de Granda.
Change of Ministry; opening of school delayed by the Texas war; Maravatío. Embossed monogram.
Request for interview at an hacienda; Escribiente Antonio López. Embossed design: BATH (first occurrence).
Illness; resignation of the Ministry; Rosa.
Illness; publication of
Purchase of lambs; Don Mariano; Hacienda de San Francisco Acuautla.
Transmittal of letter by García de la Mora; discharge of Departmental officials and restitution by the influence of Pedraza; danger of civil disturbances.
Summary of recent history of the Department; financial surplus under Federalism; policy of Governor Joaquín Calvo; criticism of Salado (Salcido?), vocal of the Ayuntamiento and Custodio de fondos municipales; Luis Zuloaga; Monterde; Plan de Jalapa; Governor Frías; Lic. Juan Urquidi; Rosa; income of Durango.
Receipt of $333 from José María Garrido Vicuña for Ana María de Alba; road from Perote to Veracruz. Embossed seal.
Receipt of $111; Guadalupe Iriarte de Covos; José María Garrido Vicuña; Ana María de Alba; Perote-Veracruz road; Juan Vicuña; Juana de los Cobos. Embossed seal.
Money needed for uniforms for troops; Custodio Sousa; seditious activity of Rangel.
Report on Zamora; chayotes (?) on the Hacienda de la Asunción; Mariquita; El Siglo.
Harness and military equipment ordered by Lieutenant Colonel Ignacio Iniestra, Comandante general del Departamento de California; bill for $1,500; Salvador María Iturbide; Manuel Gutiérrez; Joaquín Garraleta; Smith; Francisco Nieto; Felix Esquibel; Bonifacio Rosas; Ambrosio Martínez; José Velázquez; Francisco Guirenta (Quinenta?); Lieutenant Colonel Carran[]a.
Request for aid in obtaining office of Administrador Principal de Rentas de Tabaco; offices moved to Parral; Rosa; Anaya; Arias (?); losses sustained while serving in Congress; state of the Treasury.
Election of Vicente Zamora and Francisco Velázquez; Luis Banegas; Luis Colín.
Advice to electors to consult Riva Palacio for orientation.
Co-operation with Román García; elections in Ajuchitlán, Teloloapan, and Sultepec; election of Colonel Manuel Daza, Lic. Manuel Lavin, Captain José Mariano Zárate, and Lieutenant Colonel José María Madariaga; Vieyra; Administrador de Tabacos; request for personal favor; Chalco; Ixmiquilpan; publication in
Progress of elections; criticism of Tomás Ávila, nephew of Manuel Rivera and Director del Juzgado de paz.
Transmittal of letter of the Ministro de Hacienda on pay for the Mitra de Sinaloa.
Recommendation for José de la Luz Villegas, cura del Pueblo de Zumpahuacán; aid in recent elections; Tenancingo.
Danger of civil disturbance; criticism of General Rea; General Palacios in Costa Chica; suggested changes in military organization of the coastal area; Distrito de Chilapa; Puebla; local crops; cotton production; Taxco; military supplies for California impounded in the Fortaleza in Acapulco as precaution against Rea; surveillance of Rangel.
Pedraza named mediator in difficulties with Posada; request for interview.
Request for interview; communication from the Comisión de Aguas; letter from Paredes.
Effort to trace the Acta de Independencia in the archives of the Junta patriótica.
Unrest in Taxco; appointment of Antonio Noriega as Comandante militar disapproved by the Supremo Gobierno; inability of Manuel Gómez to serve; request for reconsideration of Noriega.
Letter from Algara; illness of Irisarri; inadequacy of income; plan to lease the hacienda; lung ailment; Posada.
Communication with Posada; appointment of Otero to the Ministry; use of the Obras Pías de Misiones.
Relations with Posada; Otero.
Favorable action on business offer reported by General Rincón; Lic. Pámanes; Posada.
Complaint laid before the Archbishop Manuel Posada Garduño by Atilano Sánchez of improper separation from the office of Notaría Mayor del Juzgado de Capellanías; consultation with the Capitulares; General Santa Anna; Manuel Gómez Pedraza.
Request for orientation for electors Agustín Viniegra, and Jesús Andrade; election results.
Services with Cuevas; departure for Mexico. Includes answer by Manuel Rivera, Texcalia[ca]c, October 5, 1845, recommending attention to duties and continuation of services until payment of debt is completed.
Recommendation for Atilano Sánchez; efforts of the newspapers to discredit Paredes.
Success of work with the elections; Antonio Herrera.
Details of the remodeling of the University.
Service with Guerrero; Otero; Lafragua; service in the war for independence; tyranny under Iturbide in El Bajío; lack of education.
Election of Juan Pérez in Sultepec.
Copies of prayer sent by Vicente Rayón; Francisco Velázquez; repairs of buildings; Luis Colín; robbery of and injuries to Joaquín Pliego on Chalco road; Pedro Hernández identified.
Exile for Federalist activity; cigar factory in Havana; expulsion from Cuba by Consul Arrangoy[z?]; travel through Texas; desire to return via Veracruz; robbery and theft of cigars; inadequacy of troops in Texas; lack of public sympathy with Polk and Taylor; poor quality of U. S. soldiers; Irish and German element among soldiers; praise of Paredes and criticism of Filisola for earlier defeats; Santa Anna; Consul Víctor Blanco; the Oregon and Texas Question; request for permit to return.
Recommendations from Paredes and Valdivieso sent to Posada; praise of Bishop Mad[ri]d; Delmot; Segura; Peña; disapproval of Atristain and Monjardin; Couto; mining interests.
Inspection of the Ramos de la Administración in company with Manuel Lebrija; discovery of $9,000; Fielatos; blame placed on Lebrija; request for intercession with Lucas Palacios.
Election of Agustín Díaz de la Peña and Luis G. Aguirre.
Answer to request for money; Aveleyra (?); Córdoba; Llanos de Apam.
Recommendation for Agustín Díaz de la Peña, elector for the Partido de Tanepantla (Tlalnepantla?).
Request for certificate for services in the revolt of November, 1844; services with Riva Palacio and Paredes; Decreto de 6 de Septiembre de 1845. Includes copy of previous letter of August 7, 1845 (see No. 1911).
Transmittal of letter concerning Agustín Díaz de la Peña; Díaz' desire to become a
Request for news from the capital; Cuevas; García Conde.
Recommendation for Antonio Sánchez.
Effort to influence Riva Palacio to favor legislation before the Asamblea concerning legal processes; success of the plan in Morelia.
Recommendation for the local Demaración to be joined to the Comandancia General del Sur, under the command of General Álvarez; prestige of Álvarez; danger of difficulties between Indians and “other classes.”
Receipt of printed lists of Diputados al Congreso General and Vocales for the Asamblea, for distribution. Addressed to President del Colegio Electoral del Departamento.
Receipt of copies of the Diputados and Vocales of the Asamblea Departamental.
Receipt of list of Diputados and Vocales to the Congreso General and Asamblea del Departamento, for distribution.
Exchange of communications with the Arcediano and the Archbishop; Irisarri; Osores.
Request for financial aid; illness of Antonio.
Gift of fish.
Opposition to leave granted Joaquín Herrera and the replacement by Gómez Pedraza; need for new cabinet; suggestions: Francisco Fagoaga for Relaciones, Riva Palacio for Hacienda, Rodríguez Puebla for Justicia; meetings of Juntas to discuss the Texas War; opinion of Anastasio Bustamante; Mexico's inability to carry on prolonged war; justice of Mexico's cause; arbitration suggested as a way out of war; Couto; Cuevas; local opposition to anullment of the contract with the English made by Santa Anna for establishment of the Casa de Moneda; recommendation for Zamacona; departure of Muñoz Ledo for Mexico to aid English Company; problems of the miners.
Recommendation for Martínez of Chalco; Morelos.
Transmittal of a document for study.
Illness of Mariano Rodríguez; Hacienda del Moral.
Message sent by Francisco Velázquez; illness of Joaquín, his son; heart ailment; Luis Colín.
Recommendation that the Demarcación be attached to the Comandancia del Sur, under Juan Álvarez; Indian troubles; Antonio Gómez; trouble caused in Tepecoacuilco by Lieutenant Francisco Saldívar with troops from Cuernavaca by order of Pérez Palacios.
Legal advice to heirs of Juan Bautista Arróyare.
News of Paredes' Pronunciamiento; request for aid; Haro.
Request for aid; Feliciano Guerrero; protection of Juan Álvarez; delay in settlement of charges; condition of his family.
Defense of Iturralde, persecuted by Pedraza for friendship with Santa Anna; influence of Pedraza over Riva Palacio. Embossed design: Benfield Mexico.
Negotiations with Irisarri; el Arcediano; Otero; Posada; Hacienda del Moral.
Comment on composition edited and published by Riva Palacio.
Transmittal of letter to Colonel Mariano P[érez] de Tagle, September 22. Includes draft of answer returning the letter.
Recommendation for Enrique by Inclán; travel to the North; Adela.
Request for publication of article in the
Request for recommendation to Prefecto Cristóbal Andrade; capital in Huejutla; land problem in Meztitlán; alienation of school funds; misuse of funds for water supply; influence of the Augustinians; value of crops of corn, beans,
Illness of Secretary Álvarez; difficulties in obtaining salary since 1827.
Transmittal of letters from the family; Sra. López; elections in Durango and Puebla.
Decision to continue in military command; Benito Haro; efforts of General Joaquín Rea to cause trouble along the Costa Chica and Costa Grande; political activity of the Federalists.
Negotiations for sale of the mill to Pezqueira; Juez de Letras de Chalco; Moral.
Invitation to meeting with Otero. Includes undated draft of answer accepting the invitation.
Request for intervention in favor of pending litigation for return of property held by the Aduana de Morelos; Benito Haro; favorable decision of the Ministro de Hacienda; Álvarez.
Receipt of letter; promise to send report.
Separation of son from his capellanía; Doloritas; Moral.
Request for payment for funeral. Includes note by Díaz, showing payment.
Recommendation of the Asamblea Departmental de Tamaulipas for appointment of Ramón Valdez as Juez de Primera Instancia de Tampico; Mariano Otero.
Sale of horse; saddle and cartridge-pouch.
Request for favorable action on petition by the Gobierno Departamental; protection of the South by Guerrero; Joaquín Rodríguez.
Acceptance of invitation.
Illness of Riva Palacio; Cadena; calves for ranch supplied by Francisco Velázquez; Vicentito; receipt of
Illness of Riva Palacio; negotiations over a will.
Danger of California's following the steps of Texas; arrival of adventurers in Río del Sacramento and in Oregon; transport of cattle; José Félix Trespalacios.
Local opposition to public school; letter to Cristóbal Andrade; support of Ignacio Virruete, Administrador de Correos; Jos×e Joaquín Morales, Director del establecimiento normal; Pedraza used as reference; Feria de Huejutla; Juntas corresponsales; opposition of the cura and some citizens to public education; misuse of school funds; offices of Juez de Paz and Juez de Hacienda; Junta de industria; Mariquita; Pancho; Agustín.
Appointment of Riva Palacio as Senador “por la clase de agricultores.”
Ownership of the Hacienda de San José Axalco; heirs of Manuel López de Escudero; Lic. Ramón Gamboa; hacienda accounts; Ramona Galli y Medina de Ayala; communication with Tenorio.
Receipt of recommendation for Alvino Herrera, applicant for position as Subteniente Alumno de Artillería in the Ministerio de la Guerra; Anaya.
Local support of present administration; purchase of calves at Tixtla; Sra. Guadalupe; attitude of Bravo in area of Chilapa, Chilpancingo, and Tixtla.
Notice of opening of the Congreso Nacional on December 15.
Trouble caused by the Martínez in the Prefectura de Texcoco; Colín; Dávalos.
Illness of Irisarri's mother; Lic. Agustín Pamanes; request for interview. Includes slip, 7 × 13 cm., on continuation of negotiations with Montoya; P. Lyon; Hospitalario de San Nicolás.
Distribution of territory studied by the Asamblea; the problem of Tlalchapa; erection of Ayuntamientos; Padrones; delay in submission of election returns; San Vicente; Juez Romero.
Request for aid in meeting burial expenses of wife of local peón; previous loans.
Interview with Agustín Pámanes; income from Capellanía de Santiago Huexotla; Tacuba; Dionisio Flores; Rancho de Xuchimango; Agustín Palacios; Juan Villar; Julián del Villar; Juez de Capellanías.
New post in the Administración de Tabacos de Tulancingo; delays in payment of salary by the Juzgado de Hacienda de Querétaro; illness and death in family.
Cura propio de San Mateo Texcalyacac; witnesses: Francisco Peña, José Pérez, and Joaquín Bernal. Marginal note by L. Arizcorreta.
Loan to Antonio Pesqueira; sale of the mill.
Transmittal of legal document for study by Cueva[s]; Echave; meetings of the Juntas preparatorias.
Delivery of hay by canoe; return to the capital.
Father's illness; Llera; birthday of mother.
Travel to the capital; Herrera.
Arrest for bearing arms; Fiscal Andonáegui; Colín; plight of family; request for aid.
Signature of legal document; warning to Reyes.
Offer of horse for Vicentito; Doloritas; Hacienda de la Asunción.
Failure of [María] Jesús Cordero to pay debt; beginning of litigation; Lic. Cuevas; Arizcorreta; José López.
Pronunciamiento by Paredes; request for interview.
Reports of Paredes' pronunciamiento in
Legal action against [María de Jesús] Cordero for debt; José López; Lic. Cuevas; Lic. Arizcorreta.
Concern over national affairs; surveillance of General Rea; message for Pedraza and Rodríguez; “alianza de escoceses y demagogos.”
Reopening of negotiations with Antonio Pesqueira; Hacienda de Acuautla.
News of Paredes' pronunciamiento; support by General Palacios of Tixtla; San Luis Potosí; possibility of pronunciamiento by “el fijo de México que está en Chilpancingo” (Bravo?) and by Rangel in Acapulco; Doloritas; Riva.
Detention of Riva Palacio in Mexico by political problems; absence at holiday celebrations; travel to Asunción; Vicente Rayón; Pesqueira.
Detailed account of members of the expedition outfitted by Warmuth, with names, items, and itemized costs, mostly leather goods for the campaign. Reference to: Captain Chalon; Juan Frías; Alejandro Duornig; Martínez; José María Cruz; Manuel Gutiérrez; Lieutenant Francisco Zerega; Horn; Nogueras; José de la Parra; J. Adasol; Joaquín Garraleta; Ambrosio Larragoyti; Campa; Teófilo Porras; Cristóbal Porras; Smith; Francisco de Paula Nieto, Escuadrón de Tlaxcala; Captain Félix Esquivel; Lieutenant Bonifacio Rosas; Cadete José Velázquez; Alférez Jesús Arce; Alférez Francisco Goyzueta; Lieutenant Colonel Juan Carranza; Capitán de Ingenieros Severo Castillo; Lieutenant Antonio Ferriz; notice to Comisario Stanislas Iturbide, November 27, 28, 1846; Comandante General de California.
Itemized list with prices. Preceded by biographical statement: Residence, Calle Cadena No. 24; birth in Bavaria; leather trade pursued in France, United States; marriage; prices published in
Copy of No. 2070.
Appeal for clerical support in the war with the U.S.; annexation of Texas; services of the clergy in the war for independence and the Revolution of December 6.
Detailed budget, with justifications; sources of income; imports; number of employees in various departments; salaries; Poder Legislativo; Poder Ejecutivo; Ministerio de Relaciones, Justicia, Hacienda, Guerra y Marina; Poder Judicial; Contaduría de Propios; Desagüe de Huehuetoca; Archivo General; Museo; Jardín botánico; Escuela de Medicina; Consejo de Salubridad; Cuerpo de Ingenieros de Camino; Legaciones; Obispado de Sonora, Yucatán, Chiapas, Californias; Misiones; Legación de Roma; Sección de Cuenta y razón; Tesorería general; Sección de Temporalidades; Sección de Créditos; Almacenes generales; Comisaria general de México, Chihuahua, Chiapas, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Sinaloa, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatán, and Zacatecas; pensions; Monte Pío; Colegiata de N.S. de Guadalupe; interest on debt; agents in London; Army; Colegio militar; Education of the Army; Medical Service; artillery equipment; Cuerpo de Inválidos; Suprema Corte de Justicia; Juzgados de Primera instancia; Juzgado de Tlaxcala, Huamantla, Tlaxco, Colima, Baja California, Hacienda de México, California, Chiapas, Chihuahua; Juzgado de circuito, distrito de Durango, Hacienda de Morelia, Matamoros, Hacienda de Oaxaca, Puebla, Distrito de Veracruz, distrito de Yucatán and Campeche; effect of the Arancel de 1843 on foreign investments; export of silver; alcabalas on real estate; fortification of Veracruz; Tobacco; cards; stamped paper; mails; lottery; customs; Aduana de Veracruz, Santa Anna de Tamaulipas, San Blas, Mazatlán, Guaymas, Acapulco, and Tabasco; export of dye-wood.
Explanation of earlier conduct; offer to surrender his official position; delivery of $900 by Ribera.
Congratulations on the pronunciamiento and capture of la Ciudadela; Beraza; head of the Supremo Poder Ejecutivo.
Answer to letter of January 2, 1846; friendship for Colín since May, 1820; Mariquita; José María; Doña Josefa; house repairs; Cura Vélez; Sra. Fagoaga; Otero; Hacienda de la Asunción; Garibay; Llera; Axalco; summary of business relationship.
Suggestion that case against the Capellanía be turned over to Francisco Herrera; Agustín [Pliego]; communication with Pámanes; Paredes.
Speech planned for Plaza de Jonacatepec in October; employment as Fiel de tabacos through influence of Manuel Bucheli; expulsion from office by a trick; increased income from tobacco; Administrador de Tabacos; service with Hidalgo and in the Voluntarios del Valle under Cortazar; imprisonment by Bravo; Salvatierra; persecution in Texcoco by Niño-Rivera; escape from Hacienda del Hospital; aid to Espinosa and Cardona; opposition of Lázaro del Corral; imprisonment in la Acordada; request for aid.
Delivery of load of lime; receipt of gift of basket, pan, and flowers (dahlias).
Elguero charged with settling litigation over will; delivery of documents.
Charges against Cura Juan Germán by members of Feligresía de Chautla (Cuautla?); request for statement on conduct of Germán during cholera epidemic of 1833 in Parroquia de San Gregorio. Stamp of office.
Negotiations with Lic. Pámanes; legal account with Juan F. López for $1,000 per month; Juzgado de Capellanías; value of crops; price of corn; sale of hacienda; José María Bas[s]oco; delivery of hay by canoe; delivery of corn; price of calves; hope for new constitution.
Invitation to meeting of Junta on 4th.
Cotton production; parts for cotton gin; crank; gudgeons.
Loan of $1,500; mortgage on house facing property of Vivancos; deposition before Lic. Juan Alva, Juez de Letras of the district; witnesses Manuel Arellano, Miguel Barba, and Ventura Romero; Asistencia: Miguel de Rivera and José María Torrescano; Manuel Izquierdo; recorded in Libro de hipotecas; report to Aduana; note extended by $1,000 in Texcoco, July 18, 1846.
Price of corn; work of stonemasons; Julián; Mariquita.
Verification of fines imposed in Ixtlahuaca; secret negotiations.
Debt due from Hilario Rivero; Condition of livestock; care of the sick; Hospicio de San Nicolás, Casa Nueva.
Impounded funds of the Director de la Casa de Ejercicios; transmittal of letter to Atilano Sánchez.
Delivery of note; attack by Cabrera.
Letter sent by mayordomo de canoas en Chalco and by Jimeno Ortiz; progress of plowing; wheat crops; irrigation of the fields; construction of stables; stonemasons; care of roads; corn storage in Chalco; sale of corn in Mexico; Mariquita; José María; loss of livestock; arrival of newspapers.
Transmittal of document to García; fear of Fontan[]ro and other enemies; Mejía; gifts for the “Tres reyes”; water supply.
Shortage of water; suspicions of Lic. Barreda; García; Fontanería; Jacinto Pérez.
Acknowledgement of reports by Benito Haro.
Complaint against Sra. Cordero; Casa del Oratorio; interference of Francisco Pliego; legal action against the house and property of La Plazuela de Alba and Calle de la Tenería.
Purchases in Ogamel; Atlautla; Sr. Arróyabe; high prices of rope.
Supply of hardware; deposit in Santa Cruz; search for beams in local forest; Axalco.
Supply of lumber for construction work on hacienda; Diego Arróyave; Atlautla; Luis Colín.
Bill for Vicente Rayón; use of oxen to transport beams; beams located in Santo Tomás and San Juan; use of mules.
Protest against exaction of $335 against the Rancho de Abelar; Icaza; Hacienda de la Asunción.
Message from Domingo Rivas; return to the capital.
Protest against tax for improvement of education.
Request for financial aid and care of his family; lengthy illness; dysentery.
Houses purchased by Mariano López; Value of Rancho de Abelar; inventory; Vicente Rayón; partial payments.
Receipt of answer to previous letter.
Departure of Andrés Quintana Roo from the capital; request for Riva Palacio, as
Postponement of interview; meeting with Miguel Francisco Heras.
Request for interview; liquidation of Aquautla; Chalco; Pepa.
Request for protection of mines of Mariano Larreátegui from pending litigation; letter to Álvarez; Chalco.
Request for protection of General Juan Álvarez in security of mines of Mariano Larreátegui in Costa del Sur.
Watermark: Leaf design; letters A D Vorster & Sohn Caesfeld 1837.
Debt of $200; cost of shingles; Axalco.
Liquidation of Aqüautla; request for action on earlier letter.
Receipt from Lic. Rebolla[r]; Llera; July accounts.
Conclusion of negotiations with Vicente Rayón.
Receipt of $50 from Manuel Pastor for tuition for José María Castro; Vicente Zárate; Cirilo de Castro.
Illness of father, Gabino Martínez; Moral.
Care of the hacienda.
Inquiry about negotiations with Cueva[s].
Transmittal of $500 by Ignacio Antonio de Orrutia; Canónigo Bernardino Palos; Dolores Isedo; Dionisio [Rodríguez Castillo?].
Sale of material for glass at Casa de la Viga; Doña María (Mariana?) de Alvear, widow of Juan de la Viesca; efforts to sub-lease the property.
Complaint of delay in action by the Secretaría del Ayuntamiento.
Request for aid in collecting debt; Santibáñez.
Family news; Domingo García; Hospicio de San Nicolás.
Supply of lime; price of corn; Vicente Alcívar.
Arrangements for interview; Moral.
Efforts to arrange for interview with Paredes; exchange of fire with enemy at Matamoros; plans of Paredes and Bravo; illness in Riva Palacio family.
Misconduct of Velasco, accepted as apprentice on recommendation of Riva Palacio.
Will of Padre Orruño; Cándido Guerra; José Ignacio de Anzorena; Diego Moreno.
Defense of son, Hipólito [Velasco]; recommendation of Riva Palacio.
Supply of lumber for beams in Mexico and Chalco.
Litigation with the Archbishop; interview with Patiño; advice of García Serralde and Domingo de la Fuente.
Order for search for missing mules; León Hernández; José Miguel Garibay.
Application for employment on an hacienda; Moral.
Receipt of $76 for the Hacienda de la Asunción; Moral.
Efforts of Félix Riva to organize canal navigation in the Chalco area.
Hacienda de Acozaque; Hacienda de San Miguel Tenopala; search for missing animals.
Transmittal of draft of contract; suggested changes in method of payment.
Suggestions for settlement of litigation; Don Jacobo; Moral.
Transmittal of letter by Manuel Arellano to José Guell in Misende (?); credit in Tepecingo; plan for settling case.
Receipt of money; negotiations with Don Juan; residence at Hacienda del Moral; José Rondán.
Illness of cousin; postponement of interview; sale of the hacienda; documents prepared by Carrera.
Request for decision on contract offered for outfitting troops; shop on Calle de Cadena; negotiations with the Ministro de Guerra.
Sale of house, No. 6, Calle de Chiquis, to José María Aguilar y López; Luis Guzmán; list of furniture.
Request for early settlement of title papers to the Hacienda de Acuautla; documents prepared by Rafael Arechaga; rights of the Mesa Adminisradora of the Archicofradía del Rosario.
List of furniture; materials of construction; conditions of the sale; transfer of title. Witnesses: Felipe Moctezuma, Juan Zavala, and Manuel Rojo; Juan Burnaud; Tomás Laurent; Castillo Lanzas; Ramón de la Cueva, Escribano.
Hope for settlement of litigation; Piña; Moreno, García Serralde; de la Fuente; Sagazeta; Patiño.
Purchase of cigars; stores; Correo de Ultramar, Segunda Calle de la Monterilla, No. 1; Calle de Tacuba No. 20; Empedradillo No. 5; Colín; curtain sales by Linch; prices of cloth; Calle de la Palma No. 9; Sr. Pacheco.
Negotiations with Garibay; money needed for payroll; Acolman; Velázquez; money sent to Aguilera; Moral.
Request for payment of $50 debt.
Receipt of sum from Mariano Riva Palacio for distribution; Lic. Luis de Pereda.
Account of the revolution in Guadalajara sent to Dionisio Rodríguez; General Pacheco; troops of González Arévalo; arrival of Francisco Palacios from the Quevedos of Hacienda del Cuatro; Pedro and Agustín Escudero; Echabe; letter to Castaños; Enrique Blume (?); Correo de Tepic; death of José María Castaños; Aguirre; Juan José Castaños; Gabriela Castaños; Fábrica de Bellavista; Hacienda de Puga; cutting of dyewood in Ipala; contract for sale in Europe; warning against José María Landa; Cecillon (?).
Transmittal of paragraph copied from paper by Lombardo; invitation declined; overdose of medicine. The paragraph copied deals with relations between Mariano Riva Palacio and Juan Álvarez and their differences with Santa Anna; Anselmo Cortés.
Request for aid in finding employment for Jesús Ortega; request for political news.
Dissatisfaction of Cura Guerra Manzanares of Tecamac and the unrest of his parishioners; Guevara; Coatepec.
Receipt of $333, income from Perote-Veracruz Road; Josefa de Alba de Negrete; Antonia de Alba de Ortiz; Refugio de Alba; Juan Felipe de Alba; José María Garrido Vicuña; Ana María de Alba; Juan Vicuña.
Receipt of $166 income from the Perote-Veracruz Road; Guadalupe Iriarte de Cobos; José María Garrido y Vicuña; Ana María de Alba; Juan Vicuña; Juana de los Cobos.
Receipt of $500 from José María Garrido Vicuña for income from Perote-Veracruz Road; Ana María de Alba.
Addressed to
Inability to meet with the Junta Patriótica on account of illness.
Debt to José Miguel Pacheco; interest of Blume in the Fábrica de Bellavista; postponement of debt.
Account with José María Pacheco; income from the Fábrica de Bellavista; Juan José Castaños.
Request for aid in finding more remunerative employment; summary of background; work in the Colegio de San Gregorio; experience with son of Riva Palacio; need for more pay.
Election of Riva Palacio as Vocal. Signed: P. M. Anaya, Presidente; J. Navarro, Secretario; Ignacio de Berra, Primer Escrutador, and Sebastián Guzmán, Segundo Escrutador.
Abandonment of Chiapas by Guzmán; efforts to re-establish order; flight of Guzmán to Zumpango and Chilpancingo; Matamoros; criticism of Paredes; freedom from “los dominadores de Hernán Cortés”; fear of “el monstruo del Norte.”
Efforts to collect from Lic. Atilano Sánchez the income for the capellanía founded by Alonso de Estrada y Sosa.
Election of Riva Palacio as
Dislike of military life; fear of the “yankis”; desire to return to civilian life as professional artist; art work in San Luis Potosí; Saltillo; leave requested from Simeón Ramírez, General of the Division from Querétaro, and from Colonel Partearroyo of San Miguel el Grande; letter to Farías and Miguel Arroyo; advice of Martín Carrera; Mexico's need for artists.
Medical care for the Administrador of the Hacienda de Peotillos; appointment as Subprefecto, Partido de Guadalcázar; directions for mail. Embossed design: “Bordeaux SBF.”
Appointment as Administrador de Rentas by Juan Álvarez.
Greetings from Blas; Barojas; Salomé; Ignacio; Joaquinita; Marini; Julián; Vicente.
Invitation to a meeting in Tacubaya, September 20 for important discussions.
Illness and inability to attend to business; visit from José Basoco; care of El Moral; income from capellanías; Patiño; Osores; Pamanes.
Care of cattle; accounts with the Hacienda de Taximaña; Axalco.
Need for legal decision by Osores; Pámanes.
Documents prepared by Lic. Antonio Rebollar; suit brought by Vicente Zamora against Pedro González y García for delivery of 100 loads of corn; Pedro López, Administrador de la Hacienda de Acozaque; Hevia Bolaños; Hermosilla; Gregorio López; Buenavista.
Draft of bill for $3,620 for equipment furnished troops of Colonel Ignacio Iniestra, Comandante general del Departamento de California.
Urgency of sending packages and money to Veracruz; plan for trip to Europe; request for loan of $500; loan of $4,000 from José María Pacheco. Letter is addressed on outside to José de la Cámara.
Notification of election as honorary President of the Instituto de África; work in abolition of negro slavery. Reference to: Prince de Rohan-Rochefort; Duque de Montmorency; Duque de Doudeauville; Vice-Almirante de Rosamil; Conde de Parsent; Calle St. Florentin No. 7, Paris. Accompanied by Spanish translation. Second leaf has printed constitution and list of members, not listed here.
Growth of invested funds; sum given to Santa Anna by Posada; contribution of $5,000 sought from list of 28 persons in Mexico.
Heavy losses suffered by the estate of María Teresa Castañiza by exactions in the Fondos Nacionales y Públicos; establishment of fund at the Cathedral for donations to charity and aid to destitute girls and education of the poor; income from mining property; Fondo de Peages; protest against improper exactions.
Need for sending effects to Veracruz; request for loan of $4,000, to be repaid from contributions; state of the treasury.
Request for delivery of clothes.
Confused political conditions; influence of Lombardo; letter from Santa Anna to Tornel; Monte Pío; plan for avoiding impositions; possibility of loan from MacKintosh, supported by income from mines; Irisarri; Antonio Basoco; Fondo de Minería.
Opposition to publication of letters of his deceased brother by his widow.
Report on election of representatives Vicente Zamora, Cayetano Ortega, Luis Venegas, José de la Llera, and Colín.
Request for correction of document; concern over political affairs.
Consideration of case by Defensor Fiscal; offer of employment in Government; offer of return to position as Notario Mayor; Sr. Victoriano; Promotor Fiscal; Posada; message to Covarrubias.
Mariano Riva Palacio and Antonio Icaza apponited to study use of open lands and use to be made of them; water supply; products. Signed also Manuel Piña y Cuevas. Includes draft of reply.
Complaint against abuse of friendship with Atilano Sánchez; Juzgado de Capellanías; Posada; P. Lyon; offer to use Sánchez; Osores; Antonio Carvajal.
Ruling on rights of bondholders Juan Bengough and Martínez del Río; income from Tobacco tax; existing legislation; payment of interest; critical state of the nation; income from Aduanas marítimas. Signed originally: Navarrete, G. Figueroa, Rivera, and José María de Garagalde, Secretary. Includes copy of agreement, or
Message to Barrientos; return of documents to Posada; Victoriano; Becerra; request for new license; refusal of re-employment.
Persecution by widow of brother; legal action by Lic. José María Jiménez; separation from the Instituto de N. S. del Refugio; request for protection.
Pay received from Capellanía of Bassoco; Diputados Rejón, Ágreda, Buenrostro, and del Río.
Request for payment of debt; bill at printing shop.
Transmittal of documents to Barrientos for deposit; Victoriano. Includes two lists, 10 × 35 cm., listing Diputados al Congreso General and Legislatura del Estado de México, with MS corrections.
Congratulations on election to the Congreso Constituyente. Contains also draft of answer, Mexico, November 17, 1846, offering his services; Ministerio de Relaciones; meeting of the Junta Preparatoria.
Transmittal of apponitment to the Congreso de la Nación; meeting announced with the Ministro de Relaciones. Includes draft of answer, November 17, 1846.
Negotiations with Cantaños; Blume; Bellavista; Puga; approval of the Tribunal Mercantil; Domingo Llama; Juan Amat.
Appointment of Síndico José Calvo to handle the accounts of the heirs of José María Castaños.
Letter delivered by Francisco Pevidal; guard furnished for collection of imposts; congratulations on new election; Chilapa; request for news.
Congratulations on election; return in December.
Transmittal of letter from the Ministro de Relaciones, calling for immediate meeting of the Congreso General, by order of the Supremo Poder Ejecutivo.
Watermark: Lion with crown; letters BENDETTO PICARDO.
Recommendation for position as Administrador de Hacienda.
Efforts to recover back pay for brother Manuel Riquelme; Tribunal de Revisión de Cuentas; responsibility of Mendívil; death of Mendívil; transfer of accounts to the Academia de San Carlos; appeal to Dirección de Alcabala; Echeverría; Ramo de Lotería; Plan de Tacubaya; illness of Riquelme and his brother; appeal to Gregorio Mier y Terán; example of Juan Landa; heirs of Iturbide; request for aid in recovering pay.
Favorable attitude of Terán toward recovery of back pay; opposition of Echeverría; appeal to Vicente Pozo; Inda; request for help in finding a merchant inclined to make a loan on prospects of recovery.
Credit for $200 in Comisaría General del Distrito y Estado de México.
Abandonment of employment in Tacubaya; request for aid in finding new position.
Request for meeting in the Salón Principal of the Palace, by order of the S.P.E. for important discussions.
Recommendation for Agustín Álvarez in effort to recover from persecution for favoring Federal System.
Tomás Quirós recommended as Jefe Político for Colima.
Protest against “supresión y reforma.” Payment of imposts; trip to Cuernavaca; fiesta de N. S. de la Expectación; Sra. Castañiza (?); forced loans; Presbítero Mariano Picuro (Piuro? Picucho?).
Birthday celebration; efforts to raise $2,000; address given as No. 2 Calle de Santa Teresa; Casa de José Antonio Gómez. Includes also draft of answer, November 27, 1846, unsigned: payment of $2,000 to Irisarri as loan; will of Sra. Castañiza; Mejía.
Absence of Atilano Sánchez; his illness; notice of elections for the Ayuntamiento at Manzana No. 192; offer to substitute for Sánchez.
Appointment as member of the Dirección de Colonización, along with Juan de Dios Pérez Ghalvez (Gálvez) and Antonio Garay.
Appointment as Comisionado de cuartel for Ayuntamiento elections; illness of Tomás; interview with Barreda; Manuel Luzuriaga; Juan Batres.
Notice of meeting of the Dirección de colonización.
Order of the Juez de Capellanías for the Hacienda de Santa María Atoyac to show ability to support the capellanía established by Juan Gómez Castrejón; legal expenses.
Request for aid in re-instating José Almon as Administrador de Río Verde; letter to the Ministro de Hacienda; congratulations on appointment to the Congreso Constituyente.
Delay in settlement of legal cases by government; concern over Church property; work of the Cabildo; Vicar Capitular. Includes note from Sánchez to Riva Palacio, December 10, recommending change of lawyers to Patiño.
Legal services of Barrientos; meeting with Ramón Gamboa; presidential chances of his cousin Elorriaga and Santa Anna; possibilities of Pedro Anaya and F[a]rías.
Leave granted Tomás for recovery from lung and liver infections; need for extension of leave; weather in Toluca; Noriega.
Notice of meeting.
Interview with Isidro Faber recommended by Antonio Icaza; Zabaleta; illness of Riva Palacio.
Account of appointment as Subprefecto under Olaguíbel; organization of Guardia Civil; appointment as Contador de la Aduana de Cuernavaca; increase in revenues; Mariano Ruiz; pay of the troops; work as bill collector; appointment as Visitador of the District of Sultepec by the Gobierno Provisional in Matepec; revenue sent to the capital; praise of work given by Tesorero General; discharge.
Annual summary of sums paid for religious services; Mayordomo de Acuautla; Mayordomo de la Santísima Virgen Francisco Ildefonso in Coatepec; Mayordomo de la Virgen del Rosario in Acuautla; Mayordomo de Nuestro Padre San Francisco Joaquín González; Mayordomo Teodoro Alegre; Juez José Barrón; Mayordoma María Balentina; Zacarias Flores; María Cleta Bocanegra; Mariano Rodríguez;