Box 3
Contains 40 Results:
Document 231: Letter from Revilla Gigedo, Viceroy of New Spain, to Valdés (3 pages), 1792 March 31
Enclosing accounts of treasury sums paid out to the captains of the Atrevida and Descubierta. He adds that the said accounts could not be forwarded to Malaspina since he had left port destined for the Cabo de San Andres; signed by Revilla Gigedo. Mexico City.
Document 232: Copy of document 227 (1 page), 1792 March 31
Mexico City.
Document 233: Letter from Valdés to Malaspina (1 page), 1792 March 21
Informing him that he has written to Ciriaco Carvajal thanking him for all the help he has given the expedition and for forwarding letters and natural history items. Signed by Valdés. Aranjuez.
Document 234: Copy of document 223 (1 page), 1792 March 2
Signed by Valdés. Aranjuez.
Document 235: Better copy of document 224 (1 page), 1792 February 25
Signed by Valdés. Aranjuez.
Document 236: Letter from Valdés to Conde del Campo de Alange, Minister for War (2 pages), 1792 July 11
Requesting that Pineda's pension come into effect sooner than envisaged on account of the family's financial difficulties. See documents 188, 189 and 230. Palace.
Document 237: Letter from Revilla Gigedo, Viceroy of New Spain, to Valdés (2 pages), 1792 December 31
Informing him that Malaspina never received the sealed documents marked for his attention since he had left Acapulco and they are therefore returned to Spain. Signed by Revilla Gigedo. Mexico City.
Document 238: Copy of letter from Valdés to PP. Manuel Gil [Court historiographer] (1 page), 1795 July 26
Commissioning him for the account of the Malaspina expedition; he states that he has written to Malaspina asking him to send all documents and reports on the expedition. Gil was to be paid a salary of 19,500 reales a month. San Ildefonso.
Document 239: "Plano Del Puerto de Monte Video", 1789
Partial, reduced-size photocopy of 48 x 35 cm map. Map gives depths in fathoms and has a key: A - sand; C - gravel; P - stone; L - mud ("lama"); LS - marsh ("lama suelta").
Document 240: Map of Straits of Magellan, undated
Reduced-size photocopy of 56 x 42 cm map. With colouring; one corner repaired.