Series 1: 16th Century, 1584-1594
Petition concerning litigation in Querétaro over a criminal assault in 1584 involving Antonio de Mendoza (The Younger) and Alfonso Díaz, 1584
Petition concerning a demand in 1594 that the sheriff restitute money to one Gonzalo Pérez (in Mexico; town unknown), 1594
Chimica Historial (manuscript extracts), 16th century
Series 2: 17th Century, 1600-1664
Juan de Torquemada, letter of complaint, 1600
C. De Cuerda, petition to Torquemada against Lorenze Lopez de Bergasa who sold the writer 1000 calves and then sold some of the same to someone else before he could pick them up (Guadalajara), 1604
Juan Quesada de Figueroa, petition (incomplete: Mexico City), 1614
Pedro Godinez Maldonado, contract dispute with church (Mexico City and Huechiapa), 1616
Diego Gomez de Mena, petition (incomplete), 1616
Marquez de Guadalcazar, petition to reconfirm land measurements (Mexico City), 1617
Colegio de San Pedro y San Pablo, lawsuit, mortgage claim (Mexico City), 1618
Fray Nicolas De Alto[?], petition, 1633
Maria Gil de Guangui, petition from church to order payments from Maria (Mexico: signed by Gaspar de Villanueva Zapata y Sandoval), 1650
Fray Gabriel de la Madre de Dios, decreto acerca de las fundaciones, 1651
Hernando Caso De Mallin, pending lawsuit with El Convento de Religiosos de Nuestra Señora de la Redemcion (Tepotzotlan), 1657
Joan de Contreras Garcia, lawsuit (mentions Torquemada as witness), 1663
Pedro Moreno, petition (Mexico City), 1664
Series 3: 18th Century, 1700-1797
Certificado de buena conducta y parentesso, fragment, approximately 1700
Fray Manuel Terreros, sermon concerning the relation of God and goodness to light and its properties, 1702
Assorted eighteenth-century sermons, approximately 1700-1800
José Gufalba[?], fragment of document concerning a marriage, 1725
Philipe Antonio Mata, cuenta y relacion jurada (account and sworn relationship), 1732
Certificado de Limpieza de Sangre (Villa de Santiago del Saltillo), 1417
Bartolomé Ruiz de Pasuengos, Escrito del Licenciado Pazuengos (Guadalajara), 1742
Certificado de Limpieza de Sangre (San Juan Bautista Cavezera, Sonora), 1743
Convento de Señora Santa Ana de Carmelitas Descalzos, inventory of archives (San Angel), 1744
Diego Philipe Sainz de Las Corrtes, fragment concerning sale of Hacienda de Zadros, 1744
Augustin de Aguera, certificate of legitimacy (admittance into the Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City), 1744
Pope Clement XII, plenary indulgence to all visitors to the Sagrario during Lent, 1731-1748
Miscellaneous receipts, 1721-1751
Antonio Calderon, will, 1757
Joseph Herrera Rodriguez, tax on Hacienda, 1758
Sumaria Ynformacion en orden de la Marabilla que Nuestra Señora del Nogal... , 1758
Manuel de la Borda, petitions (Tasco), 1759
Joseph Rodriguez Gallardo, mortgage interest payments (Mexico City), 1759
José Garrucho, letters on Real de San Juan and church properties, 1760
Francisco Antonio Alday, loan contract (Santiago de Querétaro), 1761
Juan de Pineda, letter to Joseph Nuñes (Presidio San Miguel de Horcasitas), 1765
Manuel Antonio de [Ocaz], report on medicine in Nayarit (damaged), 1767
Ramon de Berbegal, obligacion de tutela, 1769
Memorial para Ordenarse, notes on ordenation, collection of letters of student at El Colegio de San Pedro, 1769
Pedro Francisco de la Puente, certificate (Querétaro), 1769
Pedro Procel, deed of sale for one house (Salvatierra), 1771
Oración fúnebre dicha en Breslau en honor del Reverendisimo Padre Lorenzo Ricci..., 1776
Padre Fray Joan Augustin de Morfi, diario del Nuevo Mexico (typescript copy), 1777
Vicarias, lista de Vicarias de este Obispado de Sonora, 1780
Virrey Dn. Martin de Mayorga, admission letter to Colegio de San Ildefonso for Vincenero José de Roa, 1782
Rafael Gonzales Riestra, document granting him permission to continue studies without payment for board, 1783
Miguel Jospeh Bocio y Mediola, petition, 1784
Alonso, Arzobispo de Mexico, decree regarding a disagreement among mentioned individuals, 1787
Ana Maria de Guraya, testament, 1787
José [Lema], minutes for meeting of college directors, 1788
Juan Maria de Galvez (intendent of the province of Jarma), manuscript addressed to Antonio Porlier informing Lima authorities that he feels it would be wise to supress all four of the monasteries in his jurisdiction (Jarma, Peru), 1789
Domingo José Abedul, receipts (Guadalajara), 1791
Miguel Antonio Ortiz, petition for payment from property sale (Cuautitlan), 1791
Augustin de Castillo, certified packing statement that 32 mule packs with a total of 75 bars of silver were received (Guadalajara), 1791
Dr. Manuel de la Borda, will and testament, 1792
Account of Louis XVI's interrogation by the court (in Spanish by unidentified author; Paris), 1792
Declaracion Contra las Franceses por el Obispo de la Rochela, Residente en Guadalajara, 1793
El Conde Revillagigedo, official correspondence (some signed), 1790-1794
Convento de San Francisco, assorted documents, 1693-1796
Fray Juan Rouset, response to petition (denial for request for canonization; Sonora?), 1797
Alonso, Arzobispo de Mexico, document regarding funds allocated for repairs, 1797
Marques de Branciforte, copies of two letters, 1797
Series 4: 19th Century, 1800-1901
Fr. Francisco Rouset, copies of church and mission laws, 1800
Viceroy Iturrigaray, document for the establishment of a mission (undisclosed location), 1804
Miguel Gallego, letter to Francisco Rouset (Bishop of Sonora) asking for confirmation of his appointment as provincial vicar and president of the missions of the ecclesiastical province of Santo Domingo, 1804
Maria Ignacia Siquenza, formal petition to José Máximo Cuevas for deceased husband's pension for raising her children, 1804
Certification of money paid (unidentified), 1806
José Teran[?], letter making him executor of estate of Ortiz Cortez, 1808
Arzobispo, letter to state judge, 1809
Fr. Joseph Martinez, Libro en que se asientan las patentes, y ordenes..., 1809
Sermon de San Bartolomé (Cathedral of Mexico), 1813
Feliz [Carreja?], letter regarding report from Dr. Forál about the conduct of some priests in the Querétaro area, 1813
Sermon de San Lorenzo: predicado en el Pueblo de su advocacion de la jurisdicion de Tacubaya, 1813
Capitan Dupaix, Castillo Antiguo Mexicano...and Sepulcros de Tlacolula (handwritten bound manuscripts), before 1817
Don Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, provincial certificate of promotion, 1817
El Conde del Venadito, certificate of merit for Manuel Reyes (Mexico City), 1820
El Conde del Venadito, letter to administrator of customs regarding request for a transfer of funds (Mexico City), 1820
Decree accepting the new Empire in Baja and Northern California (signed Herrera), 1822
Joaquin [Fernandez Linardiz], letter to Dr. Meir (photocopy), 1822
Unidentified letter naming a commander, 1825
José Mana Martinez, last will and testament with transcription (Los Angeles), 1825
Letter fragment claiming items for some Spanish capitularies (San Juan Ulloa, Veracruz), 1825
Manuel Chavez, letter regarding naming of new Fort Commander, 1825
Guerra y Marina, Commission Central, dispatch from President regarding individual merit awards, etcetera, 1825
Guadalupe Victoria, Presidente de Mexico, several documents, 1825
Compañía Nacional Mejicana, Ynstrucciones formadas sobre las minas de San Antonio en el cerro de Tocapuchi, y la del Cobre, 1826
Compañía Nacional Mejicana, Ynstrucciones formadas sobre las minas del Huacal, Nuestra Señora del Rosario y la Cobriza, 1826
Adiciones del Sr. Oduando á las leyes de Indias, 1826
Fr. Domingo Barreda, regarding secularization in Baja California and money matters, 1827
D. Antonio Obregon, letter, 1829
Death certificate for Monica Doblado's husband by General Pedro Celestino Negrete, 1830
Copias de Esqrituras, de Pizarras antes de la Conquista y El Dibujo que Empleaban Los Indios Mayas Despues de la Conquista con Traducion... (illustrated), 1830
Letter of congratulations (unidentified from Veracruz), 1830-1831
Purchase agreement (Acaxochitlan), 1831
Official in the Dominican Order, letter to higher church official regarding controversy over selection of Dominicans to serve in Baja California missions, including list of men chosen to serve, 1832
Municipalidad de San Angel assorted, including document on sale of Rancho del Olivar to Sr. Fagle in 1828 as well as list of members of the brotherhood of Our Merciful Holiest Lady de Carmen at the College of Poor Carmelites of San Angel and an index of documents in the archives with detailed listings of contents (1815), 1815-1833
Manuel Arzaga, letter requesting Juilan Moreno to present need of new parish priest to the governor (Sonora), 1833
Minestro de Justicia, letter consigning the sending of prisoners to the presidios of California and Texas, 1833
Unidentified author, letter directing the use of military prisoners for the colonization of Texas, 1833
Military service certificate relating to the Battle of Tampico in 1829, 1833
Tomás Queredo and Pedro Tornel, documents regarding troops to defend the northern border against Indians, 1833-1834
Letter to Secretario de Estado de Relaciones Exteriores del gobierno de Veracruz on legalization of immigration and colonization along the Colorado and Trinidad rivers, 1834
J.Y. Pavón, letter to administrador de la aduana del Distrito Federal regarding permit for the importation of some goat herds into the District, 1834
Bill of merchandise directed to the Administrador de la aduana del Distrito Federal, 1834
License to carry arms for José Manuel [?] of Puebla, 1834
Conde de Valenciana, three fragment accounting ledgers (2 signed by Francisco Aniceto Palacios), 1803-1835
Maratino Arguello, account of eruption of Conchagua volcano , 1835
Data del mismo Ramo, monthly accounts (Zacatecas), 1836
Egresos de Ensenanza Publica (Zacatecas), 1836
Colegio de San Ildefonso, assorted documenting pertaining to financial affairs 1539-1836
Juan José Acosta, receipt of payment (Zacatecas), 1837
José Mariano de Bereztain, salary receipt to Pedro Rojas for salary as sacristan for the Convento de Santa Inez, 1839
Pasaporte, permission for a Captain Castellanos to march through with eight men (Oaxaca), 1840
Libro en que we acientan ordenes y comunicaciones á esta oficina del Grabado, 1840
Anastasio Bustamante, letter from Nicolas Catalan (1837) as well as certificates of merit to José Francisco Lopez and Andres Leflor (1838, 1841), 1837-1841
Pedro de la Lama, letter to Manuel Madrid (Havana, Cuba, 1841
Contribuciones para la fuerza de seguridad publica, 1842
Joaquin Rea, military certificate, 1843
Mariano Guerra Manzanares, employment certificate, 1843
Census of Males in Sonora, 1847
Batallon 1st de Guardia Nacional de Zacatecas (inventory), 1848
Mariano Arista, letter to comandante General de Mexico regarding distribution of funds, 1849
Gefaturas politicas del estado, fragment (Zacatecas), 1850
Juan Abraal, recito de Capellania (Amatepic), 1851
Josefa Hurtado, letter to Guadalupe Martinez (Querétaro), 1851
J.M. Zamacona, medical report regarding exhumation of remains of Maria de Jesus, profesa de velo y coro del Convento de la Purisma Concepcion de la Puebla de Los Angeles, 1852
Iglesia Metropolitana de Mexico, constitaciones para el seminario conciliar (Mexico City), 1852
General Antonio Lopez Santa Maria, promotion of Major Luis de Ormaechea to General (Mexico City), 1854
Luis Robles Pezuela, letter to Manual I. Madrid regarding business proposition, 1856
Frederico Weidner, Estudios Geognasticos (Durango), 1856
Societe des Textiles Mexicains, manuscript in French regarding structure and objectives of the society, 1856
Luis Orosco, employment certificate, 1856
Estado Mayor General del Ejercito, military service records, 1825-1856
M. Payno, note to Pio Bermajillo regarding a debt, 1857
Ygnacio Manuel, letter regarding French in Mexico, among other topics, 1865
Auxilio para pueblos afectados, por las inundaciones, list of donors, approximately 1865
Frederic de Gibelli, tribute to Leonardo Marquez (written in French; includes an acrostic; Constantinople), 1865
Coronel Secretario José Herrera, order from General Conde to transfer Mariano Camacho to Veracruz, 1866
Decreto sobre el ejercicio de medicina, three letters (Tepic), 1866
Suez Canal, copy of contract between Viceroy Said Pacha of Egypt and Ferdinand de Lesseps allowing right of way for construction of canal, 1866
P. Estrada, certificate of post as second lieutenant of La Compañia de Guardia Rural (Campeche), 1866
Arzobispo de Mexico, memorandum regarding remittance of a document with 1000 pesos that will be kept by the church (although already given to A. Noriega (Mexico City), 1867
Cabildo, town meeting minutes, 1867
C. General Pedro Hinojosa, certification of excellent military service given to José Villegas, 1867
Antonia Romero, obra pía por 500 pesos para el culto de San Nicolas (Mexico City), 1867
Accounting record, fragment (Zacatecas), approximately 1968
José Maria Villegas, letter from Departmento de Estado Mayor requesting he submit proof of military service for receipt of decoration for service in the defense of the Plaza de Puebla on June 14, 1863, 1870
Meeting minutes regarding transfer of confraternity to the Chapel of San José del Carmen (as well as statue of Nuestra Señora de Carmen, 1870
Sebastian Lerdo de Cejada, employment certificate, 1873
Typescript of Fr. Juan de Albornoz's Arte de la Lengua Chiapaneca (with two-page introduction by Alphonse Pinart), 1874
Compañia Restauradore del Mineral de Santa Rosa, document on mining in Hildalgo, 1878
C. Vincente Morales, original and copy of president's arrangement to give steamship passage to future consul of Arizona (Acapulco to San Francisco), 1881
Escuela Hidalgo e Yturbide, lessons and enrollment, 1881
Nomina de los religiosos que pertenecen a la Provincia De San Diego de Mexico (1 page), 1882
Elementos de gramatica Azteca ó Mexicana, parte segunda (lecture notes?), approximately 1883
José Fernandez Ortega, fragment of ledger (Guanajato), 1885
C. Carlos Larrañaga, employment certificate, 1885
Bound manuscript copy of eighteenth-century manuscript of Plantae nouae hispaniae... by Jose Mariano Mociño and Martin de Sesse, 1790-1885
Manuel Gonzales, two letters regarding rejection of application for vacant position and dispatch from an Infantry colonel (Chapango and Mexico City), 1879-1886
Accounting records, incomplete, and correspondence for an unidentified hacienda in Central Mexico, 1886-1887
General Carlos Fuero, En el Vigesimo sesto año del triumfo de...Ygnacio Zaragoza...y Miguel Negrete..., 1888
Nicolas de Régules, letter of recommendation certifying Pedro Troncoso's honorable services during the French invasion (Mexico City), 1889
Memorias de Lerdo (diary: New York and Mexico), 1889
Ignacio Velasques de la Cadena, letter to Bishop de Tenagra regarding response to letter and never having received prior communications, 1895
Rafael Carrera, certigicate of employment from the Mexican Government, 1895
Periodo de Venus en los escritos hieroglificos del grupo Codice Borgia, Memorias de la Sociedad Antropologica de Berlin, 1898
De Los Antiquos Mexicanos Tonalamatl (typescript of article), Memorias de la Sociedad Antropologica de Berlin, 1898
Ygnacio Mariscal, personal and official correspondence (3 items) and one certificate (Paris, Veracruz, and Mexico City), 1860-1901
Series 5: 20th Century, 1900-1973
Sres. Curas de la Parroguia del Salto del Agua, , 1772-1901
Jesus Higuera, state certificate of job assignment for Mariano Quiroz, 1902
Rosalino Martinez, thank you letter to D. Gilberto Luna, 1904
T. Torres, letter to Mariano Tellez Pizarro regarding books, 1905
Mary Lonerfall[?], letter to a monsignor in English, 1905
Unpublished study of the ancient inhabitants of Michoacan by Nicolas Leon (bound typescript), approximately 1905
Justo Sierra, letter to Presbo. A. M. Hunt Cortés, 1906
Two account books for the following quarries: Tehuantepec, Salina Cruz, and Mixtequilla, 1902-1906
Nociones generales acerca del idioma Nahuatl, Azteca ó Mexicano (typescript leccion) , 1907
Museo Nacional, Mexico, monthly report, 1907
George Frederick Kunz and Charles Hugh Stevenson, The Pearl Fisheries of Mexico (typescript), approximately 1907
D. Seler, letter (Berlin), 1907
General Bernardo Reyes, letter to Maria Luisa M. de Luna (La Havre), 1909
Vicente de P. Andrade, speech to Vice President and Associates praising Don José Mariano Lara y Zurita for his print work in Mexico City and the importance of works printed by him and letter to José Mora y del Rio regarding festivities celebrating the coronation of La Santisima Virgen de Guadalupe, 1907-1910
Zelia Nuttall, letter (Venice) 1911
Enrique B. Cota, letter regarding request to Mexican government to nullify grant of permission for free fishing and exporation along the coast (Ensanada), 1912
Isabel Ramirez Castañeda, documents regarding teaching career, School of Archaeology, 1912
Sample ballots and list of voters for elections of 1912 (17 items: Tacubaya), 1912
Junta Patriotica de Tacubaya letter to members requesting donations for Independence Day celebrations, 1912
Item on fishing in Ensenada (regarding permission to freely fish on coast, permission for exportation of oil for commercial use, 1912
Manuel Villaseñor y Villaseñor, materials regarding political career, 1912
Francisco I. Madero, flyers, correspondence and telegrams (40 items), 1911-1914
Milpa Alta, Titulos antiguos de los pueblos...del distrito de Xochimilco, 1915
General Jesus Cazares, miscellaneous papers pertaining to Brigada Cazares del Ejercito Liberacion (56 items), 1915
Blank government building contract, Yucatan, approximately 1915
José Mondragón, correspondence (5 letters regarding return to Mexico from exile and 1 letter regarding repayment of loan), 1913-1916
Fr. Manuel de San Juan Crisostomo Nájera, volume on Tarasca and Othomé grammar with other notes, 1918
Professor R. Sala, report: Compania Criadora de Concha y Perla de la Baja California 1923
José Maria Benitez, correspondence, telegrams regarding railroads, 1924
Aaron Saenz, letter to General Francisco R. Serrano regarding promotion of employee Stein at Vienna Consulate, 1925
Miguel Galindo, Metodo Robinson para estudia la lengua Azteca (typescript), approximately 1925
Liga Nacional de Defensa de la Libertad Religiosa, letter regarding naming Emilio Ordoñez head of legal defense, 1926
Nicolas Leon, letters to (2 items), 1928
Alfred M. Tozzer, letters from (to Nicolas Leon and unidentified woman), 1914-1928
José de León Toral, materials on execution (letters of authorization to witness, lists of authorized visitors), 1929
Alfonso Fabila, diary, February 1933
Alejandro Michel, nineteen items relating to Michel's career in government service, 1917-1935
Luis Mora Tovar, letter to Xavier Icaza 1936
Gonzalez Blanco, Projecto Formulado por el Señor Ministro Gonzalez Blanco (memorandum: Veracruz), 1936
Reformas a la ley de supremos poderos del estado, 1936
Maximiliano Camino, memo from Ferrocarril Mexicano to the Superior Court regarding legal dispute, 1937
Petroleum industry, contract and ammendments, 1938
Xavier Icaza, assorted correspondence and other items, 1926-1939
Secretario de Agricultura y Fomento, correspondence, 1937-1939
Derecho Sin Justica, esasy on Nazism and justice, approximately 1940
Comission Permanente del Congreso General de la Union, charges against a judge, 1945
Centro Nacional de Orientacion Civica, elections (circular with questions to consider before voting), 1946
Professor Rafael Ramirez, In Defense of the Mexican Rural Schoool (typescript), 1946
United States involvement in Mexican affairs, circular, approximately 1950
Maria de Marrón, Pictorial Progress of Middle America (typescript), 1951
Juan de Leon, letter to Bernardo M. de Leon, 1953
Sociedad Mexicana de Amistad con China Popular circular, 1957
Political prisoners, circulars on rail workers' strike, 1960
Manuel M. Cerna, Doctrina de la Educacion Rural Mexicana, Ideario del Prof. Rafael Ramirez (see also Ramirez, Rafael), 1964
Mauricio Martinez, complaints against Mariano Molina related to railway fares, 1965
Dr. Antonio Oriol Anguera, honors from Escuela Superior de Medicina, 1973
Series 6: Undated,
Lessons on speech making (fragment of a book on how to become a good orator), undated
Indexes (source unidentified, undated
Nahuatl grammar(notes on verb forms), undated
Nahuatl lesson notes, undated
Dialogos Transcendentales (1 page typescript), undated
Unidentified letter of reconciliation (Universidad Obrera de Mexico), undated
Unidentified philophosical manuscript (one page of handwritten text beginning Al Titular Pensador...), undated
Catechism, written in Nahuatl and some Spanish (90 pages), undated
Catechism, written in Nahuatl (24 pages), undated
Mercedes Cosio, Descripcion del salon de codices del Museo Nacional de Historia (typescript for course), undated
Lobster fishing, letter regarding American lobster fishing in Baja as proposed by G. Bregente of the American Union Fish Company, undated
La Pescadora, S. A., memorandum on destructive United States fishing industries in Baja California and establishment of first Mexican shellfish packing plants (Ensenada), undated
Teoria economica and politica (unidientified essay), undated
Assorted fragments, undated