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with this help, the chances are that individual investigators will have to do 
considerable searching to find some of the documents listed here. Because 
of the disorder of the individual legajos a roughly chronological order in the 
listing of the materials has been followed. 
MANUSCRIPTS IN THE CASE IN THE STAIRWAY. 
M. Legajos 1 and 2. 
Papers relating to Father Margil in Guatemala and elsewhere. 1700- 
1720. 
Despatches (Despachos) for the entrada of Margil into Nayarit and 
reports by him of the expedition. 1708-1711. 
‘“ Frutos Espirituales de los Misioneros de Fieles.”’ A summary of the 
missions of the college. 1728-17409. 
Correspondence of the commissary-general, licenses, report of a mission 
from Spain. 1748-174 
Id. of the cabildo eclesidstico of Guadalajara and the ayuntamiento of 
Valladolid. 1740. 
“ Descripcién Topografica ”, etc., of the missions de Propaganda Fide 
of the Sierra Madre de Viscalla (Viscaya). 1778. Unsigned. 
About 100 pp. 
“Ynforme general” of the sixteen missions of Tarahumara, by Fr. 
Antonio de Urbina. Cerocahui, Jan. 23, 1786. 
Another dated Mar. 3, 1786. 
Report to the viceroy of the state of the missions of Texas and Nueva 
Viscaya. Oct. 2, 1787. 
Request by the viceroy that the college send certain friars with the Bishop 
of Durango to New Mexico to undertake the conversion of the 
Comanches. Dec. 6, 1788. 
Correspondence concerning the same matter. 1780. 
Miscellaneous correspondence and reports concerning the missions of 
Tarahumara as late as 1804. 
M. Legajo2. “ Todos los papeles pertenecientes a la recepcion q® este 
Colegio hizo de las Misiones de Tarahumara.” 
Inventories, instructions, correspondence, etc. 1767-1768. 
(Missions of Tutuaca, Guazapares, Gueyachich, Chinipas, Baqueachic, 
Norogachi, Santa Anna, Navogaman, Moris, Tubaris, Thonochic, Cero- 
cahui, Batopillillas, Barbaroco, Tonachic.) 
Informe of the missions of Texas and Tarahumara. Oct. 12, 1787. 
M. Legajo 8. “ Papeles pertenecientes a la Fundacion, Renuncia, y entrega 
de las Misiones del Seno Mexicano, y una Descripcion que hizo 
el P. Cortéz de las Mis’ de Sierra Gorda.” 
(The papers present cover the period 1748-1767, and relate to the missions 
of Santa Barbara, Orcasitas, Puente de Arce, Altamira, Santa Maria 
de Llera, Aguayo, Reynosa, San Fernando, Camargo, and others. 
Among the documents those below were noted in particular.) 
Correspondence relating to the work of Escandon, containing incidental 
references to Southwest Texas, and important tribal data. 1748 
et seq. 
Plan for a mission on the Nueces. 1748. 
“Writing presented by the Rev. Father Commissary of the Missions, Fr. 
Luis Chacon, renouncing the missions of the Seno Mexicano and 
Vegass) Undated, but apparently about 1760. 
(He complains that Escandon has not furnished escorts for the missions. 
He proposes renouncing all of the missions of eastern Texas.) 

