Papers from Religious Houses 205 
Account of the siege of Manila by the English, by Manuel Antonio, archi- 
bishop of Manila. Dated Dec. 23, 1762. Contains rubric. 
Account si the death and funeral honors of the above archbishop. About 
1763. 
“ Apuntes sobre la Historia de la Comp? de Jesus de Yndias.’”’ About 20 
ff. Unsigned. 
Letter by José de Escandon, concerning the missions of the College of 
Guadalupe de Zacatecas. 1756. 
Legajo 2. 
Letters to the provincial of the College of San Fernando, Fray Garcia 
Figueroa. 1790-1791. 
(Some of them relate to the missions of New Mexico.) 
Fragments of a report on the condition of New Spain, evidently an 
“instruction” by a viceroy (evidently Revilla Gigedo) to his 
successor. Dated at Mexico, June 30, 1794. In 1422 paragraphs. 
(Cf. Revilla Gigedo’s Instruccién Reservada, Mexico, 1831.) 
Legajo 3. 
Fragments of Aztec manuscripts and anthropological papers relating to 
ancient Mexico. 
Decree of the viceroy concerning the temporalities of Nuevo Santander. 
1790. From the monastery of Tampico. 
Letters to Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci. 1742. 
Legajo 4. 
Original documents concerning the career of Morelos. 
MANUSCRITOS DE LOS CONVENTOS. 
(PAPERS FROM VARIOUS RELIGIOUS HOUSES.) 
The inventory of the library states that the collection contains 167 legajos 
and 220 bound volumes. The manuscripts are of the same general nature as 
the collection of “ Papeles Varios” just listed, but they are numbered sep- 
arately, and are considered as a distinct collection. The papers have come in 
various ways from different monastic archives. They are extremely mis- 
cellaneous and unclassified, but they contain a large amount of valuable mate- 
rial for the history of the religious orders of Mexico. The numbering of the 
legajos is altogether accidental. It is the intention of the Museo authorities 
to have the papers classified. 
UNBOUND MANUSCRIPTS. 
The most distinctive parts of the collection are the papers of the Franciscan 
commissaries-general of the Indies, the province of Santo Evangelio, and 
the Hospital Real de Indios of Mexico. There is correspondence from the 
provinces of San Agustin de la Florida, San Gregorio de Filipinas, San 
Pedro y San Pablo de Michoacan, Jalisco, San Diego, the custodia of Nuevo 
México y Tampico, the colleges of Santa Cruz de Querétaro and Guadalupe 
de Zacatecas, and the monasteries of San Francisco de México, San Francisco 
de Zacatecas, Santa Clara de México, Santa Clara de Querétaro, and N. S. de 
la Asumpcion de Xochimilco, etc. 
IrEmMs NOTED. 
Legajos 1 and 2. Correspondence of the custodia of Nuevo México y Tam- 
pico. 
Letters from the commissary-general to Joaquin de Oyarzabal, custodian. 
1803 and other dates. 
