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Texas and Mexico since their beginnings have shared a common history and sustained mutual social, political and economic ties. The Kathryn Stoner O'Connor Mexican Manuscripts Collection is made up of 5400 printed and manuscript documents, periodicals, pamphlets, and broadsides, predominantly written in Spanish, and ranging in date from the 16th through the 20th-centuries. The Collection includes government documents, financial records, legal petitions, political and ecclesiastical decrees, wills and legal testaments, and personal and business letters. There is a broad array of topics covered in the collection, including information on government, politics, finances, work, religion, social status, marriage and family, and numerous other subjects of social and historical interest. Many of the documents were addressed to the municipal district of Tulancingo, in the city of the same name, which is located in the Mexican state of Hidalgo, northeast of the Federal District of México.
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The Sons of the Republic of Texas purchased the Kathryn Stoner O'Connor Mexican Manuscripts Collection in 1976, and placed it on loan with the Library of the University of Texas at San Antonio. The San Antonio Area Foundation, in 2003, provided the initial funding to transfer the data about each manuscript from index-card catalog to electronic format. In 2004, the Sons of the Republic of Texas obtained additional funding from the Summerlee Foundation to complete the project. The Archives and Special Collections department of the UTSA Library appreciates the generosity of the Sons of the Republic of Texas, the San Antonio Area Foundation and the Summerlee Foundation in making these important documents available to researchers in Texas and across the world. |
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