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The Founding Fathers as Seen by the Marqués de Casa-Irujo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Sandra Sealove
Sandra Sealove*
Affiliation:
Madrid, Spain
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Each nation views its own statesmen with a particular bias. This prejudiced opinion is generally more pronounced when the statesmen involved are “ founding father ” types. Other eyes, though not perhaps objective, saw prominent figures in United States history in a different light, and an alien culture elicited unique comments by one particularly literate and vocal observer.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Americas , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , July 1963 , pp. 37 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1963

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References

1 Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid (hereafter cited as AHN), Estado, Legajo 3896, Irujo to Manuel Godoy, June 11, 1796.

2 AHN, Estado 3427, Letter of July 10, 1802.

3 AHN, Estado 3896, Letter of June 11, 1796.

4 AHN, Estado 3896 bis, Letter of July 12, 1796.

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8 AHN, Estado 3896 bis, Irujo to Godoy, July 24, 1797.

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10 AHN, Estado 3897, Irujo to Secretary of State Urquijo, December 18, 1799.

11 AHN, Estado 3897, Irujo to Godoy, November 20, 1798.

12 AHN, Estado 3897, Letter of February 25, 1799.

13 AHN, Estado 3891, Irujo to Cevallos, November 29, 1801.

14 AHN, Estado 3896 bis, Article of December, 1797.

15 AHN, Estado 3897, Letter of May 19, 1800.

16 AHN, Estado 3897, Letter of May 19, 1800; AHN, Estado 3891, Letter of November 29, 1801.

17 AHN, Estado 5440, Irujo to Cevallos, December, 1805.

18 AHN, Estado 5774, Irujo to Cevallos, October 26, 1804.

19 AHN, Estado 5632, Irujo to Cevallos, December 16, 1806.

20 AHN, Estado 5574, Letter of September 5, 1805.

21 AHN, Estado 5631, Letter of December 17, 1805.

22 Irujo’s private correspondence is in the library of the Duque de Sotomayor. The index to the letters has a note to the effect that many of the documents were destroyed during the Spanish Civil War.