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I. Materials described in the Castañeda guide, 1488-1868. |
W. B. Stephens:An Inventory of His Collection at the Benson Latin American Collection
Biographical NoteWilliam B. Stephens was a geologist by profession and a student of Spain's role in North America. While working for the Huasteca Oil Company in Mexico, he amassed a collection of manuscripts, rare books, and other printed materials in his area of interest. Stephens died in 1937. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and ContentsManuscripts and printed material focusing on the area of the southwestern U.S. (especially California and Texas) before 1836, then under Spanish and Mexican control, and on Mexico. Series I includes correspondence, legal documents, reports and other literary productions, appointments, instructions, printed material, and other items relating to the governance and history of New Spain and the Catholic Church. Topics represented are Indians, missions, the Inquisition, Mexico's Wars of Independence, relations between Texas and Mexico (1820-1845), the U.S.-Mexican War, and commerce and foreign trade. Series II consists of a collection of pamphlets published 1820-1822 concerning political conditions in Mexico, and ten bound volumes of Mexican government documents, decrees, broadsides, fragments of books on history and law, and other materials dated 1811-1851 concerning the history and governance of Mexico. (Four volumes deal primarily with Texas, California, New Mexico, and Coahuila). Series III contains printed decrees, proclamations, reports, circulars, etc. dated 1655-1936 and covering the same general subjects as Series I and II, with emphasis on the empire of Iturbide and the early Mexican republic. Return to the Table of Contents
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Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationPreferred CitationW. B. Stephens Collection, 1488-1936, Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin Acquisition InformationThe W. B. Stephens Collection was purchased by the Benson Latin American Collection in 1939 from Virginia Stephens de Mariscal, the daughter of W. B. Stephens. Processing InformationThe collection was described by the Benson's Mexican Archives Project in April 1994. Prepared by the Mexican Archives Project, February 10, 1995. Alternate Form AvailableSeries I is also available on microfilm in the Benson Collection. Return to the Table of Contents Other Finding AidsSeries I of the Collection is described in the following guide, available in the Benson Collection Rare Books Reference:
Castañeda, Carlos Eduardo, 1896-1958. Guide to the Latin American Manuscripts in the University of Texas Library.
For the portions of the collection not included in this Guide, a card file for Series II and an item list for Series III are available in the Benson Collection Rare Books Reference. Return to the Table of Contents Subgroups and Series
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