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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo papers
Creator:
Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1808-1890
Identifier/Call Number: mssVA
Physical Description:
4.8 Linear Feet
(4 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1833-1888
Date (bulk): 1844-1846
Abstract: The collection consists of letters and documents (in Spanish and English) of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, bulk dating from 1844
to 1846.
Language of Material: Materials are in English and Spanish.
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[Identification of item]. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Holmes Book Company, February 1922.
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1808-1890) was an early California military leader, landowner, and legislator. Born in Monterey,
Alta California, he was elected a member of the provincial legislature in 1831 and soon after was made the commandant of the
Presidio of San Francisco. In 1835 he established a civil government for San Francisco and founded the town of Sonoma. He
later founded the towns of Vallejo and Benicia. After the change to U.S. administration in California following the end of
the Mexican-American War in 1848, Vallejo served as a delegate to the first state constitutional convention and as a state
senator in the first California legislature.
The collection consists of letters and documents (in Spanish and English) of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. The bulk dates from
1844 to 1846, and there are approximately forty drafts of letters by Vallejo in the collection. Subject matter includes the
defense of the northern frontier, relations with the missions, and the treatment of Native Americans by Father Jesús María
Vásquez del Mercado. Correspondents include Juan Bautista Alvarado, Jacob P. Leese, Manuel Micheltorena, Antonio María Osio,
John Augustus Sutter, and José de Jesus Vallejo. In addition, the collection contains one letter signed from James Buchanan
to Thomas O. Larkin, 1847 January 13 (VA 150b).
This finding aid was created in 2022 by Melissa Haley as part of the American Presidential Papers Project with enhanced description
of the presidential material present. The items had been assembled physically and arranged by Huntington Library former staff
in the mid-20th century.
Individual call numbers included in the collection: mssVA 1-257.
Collection is arranged chronologically.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Indians of North America -- California
Missions -- California
California -- History -- 1821-1848 -- Sources
California -- History -- 1846-1850 -- Sources
Letters (correspondence) -- California -- 19th century
Alvarado, Juan Bautista, 1809-1882
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
Leese, Jacob P. (Jacob Primer), 1809-1892
Micheltorena, Manuel, 1802-1853
Osio, Antonio María, 1800-1878
Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880
Vallejo, Jose de Jesus, 1798-1882