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Little-Known Latin American Manuscripts at the University of Texas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Donald L. Gibbs
Donald L. Gibbs*
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin
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The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas is internationally known as a major repository of primary source material on colonial and nineteenth-century Mexico. Specialists may also be aware of its collections of historical documents on the Río de la Plata and Central America. The best-known manuscripts were acquired before 1940 and have been described in widely distributed published guides.

Type
Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , 1992 , pp. 146 - 164
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by the University of Texas Press

References

Notes

1. The basic guide is Carlos E. Castañeda's Guide to the Latin American Manuscripts in the University of Texas Library (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1939). Detailed indexes to some sections of these collections are found in Carlos Eduardo Castañeda and Jack Autrey Dabbs, A Calendar of the Juan E. Hernandez y Dávalas Manuscript Collection, Independent Mexico in Documents: Independence, Empire, and Republic, vol. 1, (Mexico City: Editorial Jus, 1954); Pablo Max Ynsfran, Catálogo del Archivo de Don Lucas Alamán que se conserva en la Universidad de Texas, Austin, reprinted from Historia Mexicana, nos. 14–15 (1954–55); Pablo Max Ynsfran, Catálogo de los manuscritos del Archivo de Don Valentín Gómez Farías, obrantes en la Universidad de Texas, Colección Latinoamericana, Independent Mexico in Documents: Independence, Empire, and Republic, vol. 3 (Mexico City: Editorial Jus, 1968); and Jack Autrey Dabbs, The Mariano Riva Palacio Archives: A Guide, Independent Mexico in Documents: Independence, Empire, and Republic, vol. 2 (Mexico City: Editorial Jus, 1967–1972). Professor Dabbs is currently compiling a guide to the Vicente Riva Palacio Papers. The La Plata material was also indexed by Carlos Eduardo Castañeda and Jack Autrey Dabbs in Calendar of the Manuel E. Gondra Manuscript Collection (Mexico City: Editorial Jus, 1952).

2. See María G. Flores, Mexican American Archives at the Benson Collection: A Guide for Users, edited by Laura Gutiérrez-Witt (Austin: University of Texas at Austin, General Libraries, 1981); Jane Garner, Archives and Manuscripts on Microfilm in the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection: A Checklist (Austin: University of Texas at Austin, General Libraries, 1980); and Gerald E. Poyo and Jane Garner, Inventory of the Records of the Cuban Consulate, Key West, Florida, 1886–1961, on Microfilm (Austin: University of Texas at Austin, General Libraries, 1983). Ann Hartness is also preparing a bibliography of the large Guatemalan broadside file in the Benson Collection.