[Spain]. Collection

Note

I.a. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED by "El marq. de Viluma" (1761-1830), ambassador at Paris; Ramón Gil de la Cuadra (1775-1860), politician; Gen. Federico Roncali (1800-1857), military man and Prime Minister of Spain in 1852-1853; Ramon de Meer (1787-1869), Captain General of Catalonia (1843-1845) and President of the Supreme Council of War; Domingo Dulce (1808-1869), Spanish general who saved Queen Isabel when Diego de Leon tried to abduct her in 1841; TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS (1x only a part of the letter) by Diego de Leon (1807-1841), military man who earned the title of 1st Count of Belascoáin when he captured Belascoáin from the Carlists in 1838 during the first Carlist war (he was later executed for his role in the 1841 revolt led by him and O'Donnell against Baldomero Espartero); an AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED by Leopoldo O'Donnell (1809-1867), Spanish general (who as Captain General of Cuba was responsible for the violent repression of the perceived revolt of the Afro-Cuban slaves in 1844, the massacre during "The Year of the Lash"), and later prime-minister of Spain; a slip of paper with the SIGNATURE of Espartero (1793-1879) "El Duque de la Victoria"; a short AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED by Bertran de Lis (1772-1857), Spanish banker and politician; an autograph letter signed by Francisco Espoz y Mina (1781-1836), the most important guerrillero of the Peninsular War (1808-1814).