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Finding Aid to the José López Uraga Papers, [ca.
1840-1882]
BANC MSS 71/94 m
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Collection Title: José López Uraga Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1840-1882
Collection Number: BANC MSS 71/94 m
Creator:
López Uraga, José, 1814-1885
Extent:
Number of containers: 2 boxes
Repository: The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please
consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Correspondence, commonplace book, miscellaneous accounts 1862-1880, programs,
clippings, and maps of Honduras relating to the career of Jose Lopez Uraga, diplomat and soldier, in
Mexico, Guatemala, and California. Collection includes letters from Maximilian, Porfirio Diaz, Benito
Juarez, F. Parraga, Matias Romero, Marco Soto, one from Zelia Nuttall Pinart, and others.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in Spanish
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the
reader.
[Identification of item], José López Uraga Papers, BANC MSS 71/94 m, The
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Materials Cataloged Separately
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Photographs (unidentified) have been transferred to the
Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library:
Title: José López Uraga Photograph Collection,Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1971.029-PIC
The collection was purchased from the Alta California Bookshop, November 9, 1970.
José López Uraga, Mexican soldier and diplomat, was born in Valladolid, Morelia in
1810. He fought against the United States in 1847, helped establish the Santa Anna government, and
during the Guerra de Reforma engaged on the side of the constitutionalists, losing a leg in combat. He
was Mexican Minister to Germany in 1854 and 1855. During the War of Intervention, he served as
general-in-chief of the Army of the West, and later as commanding general in Jalisco. He later served
under Maximilian, becoming his aide-de-camp and marching to Yucatan. When he went to Guatemala in 1873,
his mission was to organize and strengthen the army there. It was at this time that he wrote several
books on military subjects. López Uraga then settled in San Francisco around 1877, where he
had hoped to obtain the Mexican consulship and to be reinstated as a Mexican citizen. And it was in San
Francisco that he died in 1885, having been unsuccessful in both these attempts.
The José López Uraga Papers consist mainly of letters addressed to López
Uraga, many of them reflecting events in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.