Documentos para la historia de California
Contributors: Leese, Jacob P. (Jacob Primer), 1809-1892; Cooper, Juan Bautista Rogers, 1791-1872; Larkin, Thomas Oliver, 1802-1858
Published: 1769
Language: spa
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: Politics and government; Sources; Missions; Emigration and immigration; History
Other titles: Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo documents; Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo papers; Hubert Howe Bancroft collection.
Description: Jacob Primer Leese letter, 1843 June 19, introducing L.W. Hastings. Translated by Violet G. Homen.

Personal papers and official records relating primarily to the Mexican period in California History. The first section (v. 1-14) consists of official papers, including letters and documents addressed to Vallejo and drafts or copies of his letters to other individuals. There is also much personal and business correspondence. The second section (v. 15-27) is composed almost entirely of military papers. Most of these pertain to the Presidio of San Francisco, but some relate to companies stationed at Monterey, Santa Barbara, and San Diego. The third group (v. 28-36) is a heterogenous collection, seemingly made up of portions of the family archives of a number of Vallejo's relatives and friends, such as his brother-in-law, John Bautista Rogers Cooper; Cooper's half-brother Thomas Oliver Larkin; and others. Subjects include: government and politics, military history, missions, economic history, immigration and colonization, and social history.
Notes: STORED IN PART OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for use.

RESTRICTED ORIGINAL. USE PHOTOSTATIC COPY ONLY: Use of originals only by permission of the Head of the Manuscripts Division.

Photostatic copies (bound volumes) also available.

Vols. 1-36 also on microfilm.

Published finding aid: A guide to the Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo documents para la historia de California, 1780-1875 / by Doris Marion Wright (University of California Press, 1953) available in the library.

Vallejo gave the papers to Hubert Howe Bancroft in the 1870s, after Bancroft's employees had begun copying and indexing the materials for use in a published history of California. Vallejo had retained the official Mexican documents after the U.S. conquest of California.

Forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft collection.