Descriptive Summary
Scope and Content of Collection
Historical Background
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Descriptive Summary
Title: Armando de María y Campos Collection
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0136
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California, 92093-0175
Languages:
Spanish; Castilian
Physical Description:
0.4 Linear feet
(1 archives box)
Date (inclusive): 1633 - 1963
Abstract: Papers collected by Armando de María y Campos, Mexican poet, novelist, biographer, and journalist. Materials include a collection
of twentieth-century corridos, a list of Mexican periodicals, documents (1633-1818) related to the Conde del Valle de Orizaba,
and numerous historical documents related to Mexican history. Arranged in four series: 1) CORRIDOS, 2) PERIODICOS, 3) HISTORICAL
DOCUMENTS, and 4) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES.
Creator:
María y Campos, Armando de, 1897-1967
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers collected by Armando de María y Campos, Mexican poet, novelist, biographer, and journalist. Materials include a collection
of twentieth-century corridos, a list of Mexican periodicals, documents (1633-1818) related to the Conde del Valle de Orizaba,
and numerous historical documents related to Mexican history.
Arranged in four series: 1) CORRIDOS, 2) PERIODICOS, 3) HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, and 4) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES.
Series 1) CORRIDOS: Typescripts of corridos about the Mexican writer Vicente Lombardo Toledano, politics in the state of San
Luis Potosi and the Mexican Revolution.
Series 2) PERIODICOS: A typescript list of primarily revolutionary and liberal periodicals, but also a few from conservative
and socialist anarchist sources.
Series 3) HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS: Individual documents related to Mexican history. Included are seven legal manuscript documents
(1633-1818), giving terms of lease agreements, contracts and inheritance for properties in Mexico held by successors to the
title Conde del Valle de Orizaba. Also included is an account of the founding of a poorhouse, the Hospicio de Pobres (1769),
by Fernando Ortiz Cortes, and a description of four decades of its financial and administrative problems.
SEPARATION LIST
A number of periodicals and broadsides have been separated from the collection and added to some of the department's other
collections. To identify and retrieve these items, search ROGER under the heading "María y Campos, Armando de, 1897-1967 former
owner"
Historical Background
Armando de María y Campos was born in Mexico City on May 23, 1897. He attended the Instituto CientĆfico de México and in 1914
began a career in journalism by collaborating on El Estudiante and Churubusco. In 1915, he worked as a reporter for EL LIBERAL;
founded EL UNIVERSAL; managed MEFISTOFELES, EL HERALDO DE MEXICO, and EL ECO TAURINO. In addition to his activities as a chronicler
of Mexican theater, María y Campos also wrote poetry, novels, and plays. After 1940, he became better known as a biographer
and essayist. His service to the Mexican stage and theater won him a gold medal from the Asociación Nacional de Actores in
1958.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Preferred Citation
Armando de María y Campos Collection, MSS 136. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 1969.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hospicio de Pobres (Mexico City, Mexico).
Hurtado de Mendoza, Joseph
Lombardo Toledano, Vicente, 1894-1968
Valle de Orizaba, House of
Vivero Peredo y Velasco, Nicolàs de, conde del Valled de Orizaba
Almshouses -- Mexico -- History
Land tenure -- Mexico
Mexico -- History -- 1540-1810
Mexico -- History -- 20th century
Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Literature and the revolution