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Finding Aid to the Francisco Mujica Diez de Bonilla Papers, 1956-1979
BANC MSS 84/89 m
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Collection Title: Francisco Mujica Diez de Bonilla Papers,
Date: 1956-1979
Collection Number: BANC MSS 84/89 m
Collector:
Mujica Diez de Bonilla, Francisco, 1899-1979
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 with institutions in the United States and abroad to solicit
interest in housing Mujica's Collection of original hand drawn reproductions of the art and architecture
of pre-Columbian Mexico and New Spain. Also personal letters concerning his stay in the United States;
memoranda, inventions and evaluations of his collection, and the will which outlines the final placement
of his collection.
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] Francisco Mujica Diez de Bonilla Papers, BANC MSS 84/89 m, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Title: Correspondence
with institutions in the United States and abroad to solicit
interest in housing Professor Mujica's collection of original hand-drawn reproductions of the art and
architecture of pre-Colombian Mexico and New Spain. Also personal letters concerning his stay in the
United States. Miscellaneous personal papers include memoranda, inventories and evaluations of his
collection, and the will which outlines the final placement of his collection.
Title: Outgoing letters
of Francisco Mujica Diez de Bonilla, 1974-1979 are arranged
chronologically. Carbons and photocopies, they relate for the most part to attempts to place his
collection.
Title: Incoming letters
are arranged alphabetically by writer or organization, then
chronologically within each folder. When possible, they are listed under institutional affiliation,
since Mujica was primarily interested in that aspect of his correspondents. Single items have been
placed in an A-Z miscellany at the beginning of the series.
Gift of his estate, 1981?
Born in Mexico, January 29, 1899, the son of a career diplomat, Professor
Mujica in his early years attended schools in Spain, France, Belgium, Argentina, and Chile, pursuing
his studies in higher education at the Universities of Chile, Mexico, and Paris. As President of the
Architecture Students' Center at the University of Chile, he was the School of Architecture's
delegate to the first Pan American Congress of Architects.
The lifework of Architect Mujica is unique—a true graphic
inventory of Mexico's artistic treasure— and consists of five major sections:
pre-Hispanic art, Colonial art, Modern art, landscapes, and finally prototypes, costumes, and
customs. The collection has been praised by world-famous anthropologists and archaeologists
including Rivat, Morley, Imbelloni, Kidder, and Capitan. Aldon Mason, Curator ofthe Philadelphia
Museum of Art, stated, 'No description could do justice to the enormous and extraordinary collection
of drawings and photographs of Mexican art, archaeology and architecture'... .
by Dr. Capitan, Curator, Paris Museum