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Size | About 12,000 items (17.0 linear feet). |
Abstract | The collection includes correspondence and other items, chiefly 1750-1860, of succeeding generations of several interrelated aristocratic families whose members were prominent in business, the church, and government of Popayan, Colombia, capital of the department of Cauca. The papers concern family matters, religious institutions, mining, stock-raising and farming, production and marketing of quinine, legal transactions and cases, and political revolutions of the nineteenth century. Principal families represented are Valencia, Perez, Arroyo, Varila, Arboleda, Hurtado, Cordova, Delgado, and Mosquera. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. General Manuscripts. |
Language | Spanish |
Processed by: Manuscripts Department Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Container list added by Sara Mannheimer, May 2012.
Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.
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The collection includes correspondence and other items, chiefly 1750-1860, of succeeding generations of several interrelated aristocratic families whose members were prominent in business, the church, and government of Popayan, Colombia, capital of the department of Cauca. The papers concern family matters, religious institutions, mining, stock-raising and farming, production and marketing of quinine, legal transactions and cases, and political revolutions of the nineteenth century. Principal families represented are Valencia, Perez, Arroyo, Varila, Arboleda, Hurtado, Cordova, Delgado, and Mosquera.
The original finding aid contains more detailed information about the collection's contents.
Back to TopFolders 1-221 correspond to Boxes 1-17 in original finding aid. For the rest of the folders, relationships between folder numbers listed here and original box numbers are noted below.
Folder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1b-10 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1721-1760 |
Folder 11-18
Folder 11Folder 12Folder 13Folder 14Folder 15Folder 16Folder 17Folder 18 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1761-1769 |
Folder 19-29
Folder 19Folder 20Folder 21Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26Folder 27Folder 28Folder 29 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1769-1774 |
Folder 30-43
Folder 30Folder 31Folder 32Folder 33Folder 34Folder 35Folder 36Folder 37Folder 38Folder 39Folder 40Folder 41Folder 42Folder 43 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1775-1783 |
Folder 44-55
Folder 44Folder 45Folder 46Folder 47Folder 48Folder 49Folder 50Folder 51Folder 52Folder 53Folder 54Folder 55 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1784-1789 |
Folder 56-69
Folder 56Folder 57Folder 58Folder 59Folder 60Folder 61Folder 62Folder 63Folder 64Folder 65Folder 66Folder 67Folder 68Folder 69 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1790-1793 |
Folder 70-82
Folder 70Folder 71Folder 72Folder 73Folder 74Folder 75Folder 76Folder 77Folder 78Folder 79Folder 80Folder 81Folder 82 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1794-1798 |
Folder 83-93
Folder 83Folder 84Folder 85Folder 86Folder 87Folder 88Folder 89Folder 90Folder 91Folder 92Folder 93 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1798-1803 |
Folder 94-107
Folder 94Folder 95Folder 96Folder 97Folder 98Folder 99Folder 100Folder 101Folder 102Folder 103Folder 104Folder 105Folder 106Folder 107 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1804-1807 |
Folder 108-118
Folder 108Folder 109Folder 110Folder 111Folder 112Folder 113Folder 114Folder 115Folder 116Folder 117Folder 118 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1808-1810 |
Folder 119-129
Folder 119Folder 120Folder 121Folder 122Folder 123Folder 124Folder 125Folder 126Folder 127Folder 128Folder 129 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1810-1817 |
Folder 130-139
Folder 130Folder 131Folder 132Folder 133Folder 134Folder 135Folder 136Folder 137Folder 138Folder 139 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1817-1820 |
Folder 140-150
Folder 140Folder 141Folder 142Folder 143Folder 144Folder 145Folder 146Folder 147Folder 148Folder 149Folder 150 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1821-1826 |
Folder 151-160
Folder 151Folder 152Folder 153Folder 154Folder 155Folder 156Folder 157Folder 158Folder 159Folder 160 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1826-1828 |
Folder 161-173
Folder 161Folder 162Folder 163Folder 164Folder 165Folder 166Folder 167Folder 168Folder 169Folder 170Folder 171Folder 172Folder 173 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1828-1832 |
Folder 174-185
Folder 174Folder 175Folder 176Folder 177Folder 178Folder 179Folder 180Folder 181Folder 182Folder 183Folder 184Folder 185 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1832-1836 |
Folder 186-196
Folder 186Folder 187Folder 188Folder 189Folder 190Folder 191Folder 192Folder 193Folder 194Folder 195Folder 196 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1837-1842 |
Folder 197-211
Folder 197Folder 198Folder 199Folder 200Folder 201Folder 202Folder 203Folder 204Folder 205Folder 206Folder 207Folder 208Folder 209Folder 210Folder 211 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1842-1879 |
Folder 212-221
Folder 212Folder 213Folder 214Folder 215Folder 216Folder 217Folder 218Folder 219Folder 220Folder 221 |
Correspondence and related papers, 1880-1898 and undated |
Folder 222-228c |
Manuscripts, 1830s and undatedBox 18 in original finding aid. |
Folder 229a-230f |
Volumes, 1734-1865Box 19 in original finding aid. |
Folder 231-284
Folder 231Folder 232Folder 233Folder 234Folder 235Folder 236Folder 237Folder 238Folder 239Folder 240Folder 241Folder 242Folder 243Folder 244Folder 245Folder 246Folder 247Folder 248Folder 249Folder 250Folder 251Folder 252Folder 253Folder 254Folder 255Folder 256Folder 257Folder 258Folder 259Folder 260Folder 261Folder 262Folder 263Folder 264Folder 265Folder 266Folder 267Folder 268Folder 269Folder 270Folder 271Folder 272Folder 273Folder 274Folder 275Folder 276Folder 277Folder 278Folder 279Folder 280Folder 281Folder 282Folder 283Folder 284 |
Legal papers, circa 1750-1860Boxes 20-27 in original finding aid. |
Folder 285-319
Folder 285Folder 286Folder 287Folder 288Folder 289Folder 290Folder 291Folder 292Folder 293Folder 294Folder 295Folder 296Folder 297Folder 298Folder 299Folder 300Folder 301Folder 302Folder 303Folder 304Folder 305Folder 306Folder 307Folder 308Folder 309Folder 310Folder 311Folder 312Folder 313Folder 314Folder 315Folder 316Folder 317Folder 318Folder 319 |
Other papers, 1750-1860Box 28 in original finding aid. |