THE CONGREGACION DE SAN FELIPE NERI. 
(THE CONGREGATION OF SAN FELIPE NERI.) 
The remains of the archives of the Congregation of San Felipe Neri, which 
was headquarters for much of the missionary work done by the Jesuits in the 
northern provinces, are at the Congregation, on Calle de Cinco de Mayo, back 
of the Church of La Profesa. Permission to use the library, where the old 
papers are preserved, is obtained through the Provost (Prepdésito) of the 
Congregation. 
The archive contains at present little or nothing of direct bearing on the 
United States, but there are manuscripts of great value for the internal his- 
tory of the Congregation, which may contain incidental items of interest. The 
principal classes of papers of historical value are: 
Books of elections of provosts and deputies of the Congregation. 
Books of acts of the congregations, from 1659. 
Records of testaments, gifts, and loans in favor of the Congregation. 
Accounts of the administration of haciendas belonging to the Congrega- 
tion. 
(Among the loans recorded is one by Nicolas de la Fora, 1787, apparently 
the maker of the remarkable map of the Interior Provinces noted 
elsewhere. ) 
Correspondence of Dn. Mathias Monte Agudo, from Baltimore and 
other parts of the United States. 
The most interesting collection in the library is that consisting of the papers 
of Leonardo Baroni, castellan of Aseoli. The greater number of these are 
letters from his uncle, the noted Cardinal Caesar Baronius, friend of Felipe 
Neri, and one of the fathers of church history. His letters cover the period 
1560-1606. Among the papers there are also papal licenses, letters from the 
King of France, and a manuscript life of Caesar Baronius. This appears to be 
a copy, but the rest of the papers are originals. 
THE COLEGIO DE SAN FERNANDO DE MEXICO. 
(THE COLLEGE OF SAN FERNANDO DE MEXICO.) 
This missionary college was the mother of the missions of Alta California, 
and took part in the founding of Apache missions in Texas. An examination 
of the library shows that not a scrap of historical records remains. Fortu- 
nately some of the most important ones are preserved in the Museo Nacional, 
but familiarity with the archives of the sister colleges of Santa Cruz and 
Guadalupe de Zacatecas makes it evident that the papers in the Museo repre- 
sent only a small fraction of the papers that once were in the college. Records 
from this archive may be at the Church of La Encarnacion, where the last 
guardian of the college resided, or in the hands of the recently appointed 
provincial. 
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