Box 1
Contains 90 Results:
Document 51: Letter from Mendoza to Valdés (1 page), 1790 March 15
Confirming the purchase of the natural history encyclopaedia by Valmont de Bomare and that it has been forwarded to Cádiz. See documents 48 and 55. Paris.
Document 52: Letter from Gutierrez de Rubalcava (Quartermaster of Cádiz) to Valdés (1 page), 1790 March 16
Assuring him that orders regarding transportation of items requested by Malaspina will be carried out promptly. Isla de León.
Document 53: Letter from Valdés to Ministro de Marina de los baxeles del Río de la Plata [Minister of Marine for vessels in Río de la Plata], Alonso Morgado (1 page), 1790 March 20
Confirming King's approval that extra bread be supplied to the expedition on account of infestation. Marked "Duplicado." See documents 16, 17, 28 and 29. Madrid.
Document 54: Letter from Valdés to Malaspina (1 page), 1790 March 20
Acknowledging Malaspina's letter dated 30 October and confirming that pens, paper and Encyclopaedia requested will be sent by the Quartermaster of Cádiz as soon as the Encyclopaedia is received from Paris, but that it will not be possible to send the scientific instruments in time for their arrival in Acapulco. Marked "Duplicado"; note at foot of document states that letter was to be sent via Viceroy of Peru. Madrid.
Document 55: Letter from Valdés to Antonio Pineda (1 page), 1790 March 20
Assuring him that the Encyclopaedia of Natural History will arrive shortly. Marked "Duplicado"; to be sent via Viceroy of Peru. See documents 48 and 51. Madrid.
Document 56: Letter from Ambrosio Higgins Villenas to Valdés (1 page), 1790 April 5
Confirming arrival of expedition at the Port of Valparaíso. Santiago de Chile.
Document 57: Letter from Jose Orozco (Naval Officer) to Valdés enclosing maps of the Patagonian coast received from Malaspina (1 page), 1790 April 14
Montevideo.
Document 58: Copy of a letter from Malaspina to Higgins enclosing list of deserters advising that they be duly punished, that there should be no safe haven in the Kingdom of Spain for such offenders and that all effective measures be taken to find them (1 page), 1790 April 10
Marked "Copia." See documents 60 and 64. Valparaíso.
Document 59: Letter from Orozco to Valdés (1 page), 1790 April 14
Informing that he sent a ship to travel in convoy with Malaspina's two ships while the Patagonian coast was being charted. Montevideo.
Document 60: Copy of Circular from Ambrosio Higgins, Capitan General del Reyno de Chile, to officers in Melipilla, Guillota and Aconcagua (3 pages), 1790 April 17
Instructing them to step up their search for the deserters; rewards for each deserter found will be 30 pesos and their punishment will be in accordance with Royal Orders. Inscribed "Copia." See documents 58 and 64. Santiago.