January 20, 2005
Compiled by Scott Van Jacob, University of Notre Dame
Latin American Primary Documents in English
found in the Hesburgh Library
There are relatively few Latin American historical documents that have been translated
into English. The materials that have been translated fall into the following categories.
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Translated works of important Latin American historical documents
Translations of memoirs, letters, etc. by major Latin American figures, such as
Bolívar.
Travelogues and memoirs of English speakers living or traveling in Latin
America.
English language newspapers
Below are translations found in the Hesburgh Library. It is important to note that this is
not a complete list by any means. Also, some of these works have been translated more
than once.
EXPLORATION AND CONQUEST
Hesburgh Library General Collection G 161 .H127 no.60-61
Acosta, José de, 1540-1600. The natural & moral history of the Indies, by Father
Joseph de Acosta. Reprinted from the English translated edition of Edward Grimestone,
1604. And ed., with notes and an introduction, by Clements R. Markham. [Boston,
Mass.]: Elibron Classics, [2002]
Hesburgh Library General Collection E 111 .C383 2001
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566. Las Casas on Columbus : the third voyage / editor,
Geoffrey Symcox ; textual editor, Jesús Carrillo ; translators, Michael Hammer, Blair
Sullivan. Turnhout : Brepols, 2001.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1411 .C4276 1999
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566. Las Casas on Columbus : background and the
second and fourth voyages / Nigel Griffin, editor and translator ; introduction by Anthony
Pagden. Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 1999.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 3442 .C66313 1998
Cieza de León, Pedro de, 1518-1554. The discovery and conquest of Peru : chronicles
of the New World encounter / Pedro de Cieza de León ; edited and translated by
Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University
Press, 1998.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1410 .C725 2000
Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850
Boyer, Richard G. and Spurling, Geoffrey, editors.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Microforms (Lower Level) Hesburgh Library
Columbus, Christopher. Notes on Columbus.
New York, Priv. print. [Cambridge, Riverside press] 1866.
Ambrosian text of Columbus' letter to Santangel, with English translation at foot of
page, p. 89-100; Latin letter to Sanchez, from the "1st" Planck edition, p. 101-108.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1230 .C818 A3L En36
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547. Fernando Cortes; his five letters of relation to the Emperor
Charles V; tr. and ed. with a biographical introd. and notes comp. from original sources
by F. A. MacNutt. Cleveland, Clark, [c1908].
Hesburgh Library General Collection F1411 .I18 1984
New Iberian World. 5 volumes
– Translated Hispanic documents from the exploration and conquest of the new world.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1909 .P3613 1999
Pané, Ramón, d. 1571. An account of the antiquities of the Indians : chronicles of the
New World encounter / Ramón Pané. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1999.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1230 .L579
León Portilla, Miguel, The broken spears; the Aztec account of the conquest of
Mexico. Boston, Beacon Press [1962]
On Order 1/2005
Tienda de Cuervo, José,; Santa Maria, Vicente. General state of the settlements made by
D. José de Escandón [in the] Colony of Nuevo Santander, coast of the Gulf of Mexico,
original documents which contain the inspection of the province performed by Dragoon
Captain José Tienda de Cuervo, the report of the same to the Viceroy and an appendix
with the historical account of Nuevo Santander /
[Corpus Christi, Tex. : E. Brown], 1993
Hesburgh Library General Collection E 125 .V5 A3 1992
Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512. Letters from a new world : Amerigo Vespucci's
Discovery of America / edited and with an introduction by Luciano Formisano ; foreword
by Garry Wills ; translated by David Jacobson. New York : Marsilio, c1992.
COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA
Hesburgh Library General Collection F1412 .C642
Colonial Spanish America : a documentary history / edited by Kenneth Mills and
William B. Taylor.
Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, c1998.
Microforms [Lower Level HESB] General Collection Microfiche 4 x 6
Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of, 1775-1860. The autobiography of a seaman.
[microform] London : R.Bentley, 1860.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1410 .G5
Gibson, Charles. Spanish Tradition in Latin America.
New York: Harper and Row, 1968.
Includes documents from mainly from the colonial period, but does have some
relating to the independence period.
Microforms [Lower Level HESB] General Collection
Microfiche 4 x 6
Hall, Francis, d. 1833. Colombia [microform] : Its Present State, in Respect of Climate,
Soil, Productions, Population, Government, Commerce, Revenue, Manufactures, Arts,
Literature, Manners, Education, and Inducements to Emigration with Itineraries.
Philadelphia : A. Small, 1825.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F1411 .L58
Letters and people of the Spanish Indies, sixteenth century / translated and edited by
James Lockhart and Enrique Otte.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2341 .C25 P6 1966
Porter, Robert Ker. Sir Robert Ker Porter’s Caracas diary, 1825-1842; a British diplomat
in a newborn nation.
Caracas: Instituto Otto y Magdalena Blohm, 1966.
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Hesburgh Library General Collection E 322 .A516
Adams, John, 1735-1826. The Adams-Jefferson Letters.
Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at
Williamsburg Va., by the University of North Carolina Press [1959]
E 322 .A516
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2235.3 .A5 2003
Bolívar, Simón. El Libertador : Writings of Simón Bolívar / translated from the Spanish
by Frederick H. Fornoff ; edited with an introduction and notes by David Bushnell.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2235.3 .A1296
Bolívar, Simón. The Political Thought of Bolivár; Selected Writings. Ed. and with
introductions by Gerald E. Fitzgerald.
The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1971.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2235.3 .A3E 1951
Bolívar, Simón. Selected writings. Compiled by Vicente Lecuna. Edited by Harold A.
Bierk, Jr. Translation by Lewis Bertrand. 2 vol.
2nd Ed. Published by the Boliverian Society of Venezuela. New York: Colonial Press,
1951.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2235.3 .D859m
Bolívar, Simón. Memoirs of Simon Bolivar, President Liberator of the Republic of
Colombia. 2 vols. Edited by Ducoudray-Holstein, Henri La Fayette Villaume, 17631839.
London: H. Colburn, 1830.
Hesburgh Library General Collection E 337.8 .C579w
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852. The works of Henry Clay, comprising his life, correspondence
and speeches, ed. by Calvin Colton, LL. D. With an introduction by Thomas B. Reed and
a history of tariff legislation, 1812-1896, by William McKinley ...
New York, London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2815 .H432 1967
Head, Francis Bond, Sir, 1793-1875. Journeys across the pampas and among the Andes.
Edited with an introd. by C. Harvey Gardiner. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University
Press [1967]
The Library of Latin America – A book series published by Oxford University Press that
“makes available in translation major nineteenth-century authors whose work has been
neglected in the English speaking world”.
To find these books, do a browse search under title in the Aleph catalog for “library
of latin america”. This will list all of the works that we have for this series.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2823 .R2 M34613 1997b
Mansilla, Lucio Victorio, 1831-1913. A visit to the Ranquel Indians : (una excursión a
los indios ranqueles) / Lucio V. Mansilla ; translated by Eva Gillies. Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press, c1997.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F3446 .M64
Miller, William, 1795-1861. Memoirs of General Miller, in the service of the Republic of
Peru 2 volumes.
London: Longman, Reese, 1864.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2235 .M697e
Mitre, Bartolomé. The emancipation of South America, being a condenced translation by
William Pilling of the History of San Martin by General Don Bartolomé Mitre…
London: Chapman & Hall, 1893.
The Library of Latin America – A book series published by Oxford University Press that
“makes available in translation major nineteenth-century authors whose work has been
neglected in the English speaking world”.
To find these books, do a browse search under title in the Aleph catalog for “Library
of Latin America”. This will list all of the works that we have for this series.
Microforms [Lower Level HESB] General Collection Microfilm 4162
The Mexican herald <Newspaper >
Mexico :Mexican Pub. Co., Ltd.,1895-1915.
Hesburgh Library General Collection DP 233 .M59 2003
Modern Spain : a documentary history / edited by Jon Cowans.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003.
http://www.library.nd.edu/ (Select “n” from Find Resources by Title)
New York Times
Coverage: 1851-three years before present
Searchable database with access to every page of every issue from cover to cover, with
full-page and article images in downloadable PDF from the first issue in 1851 to three
years before the current year. Additional year of coverage added once a year.
Hesburgh Library General Collection PQ 8519 .R6 A713 1988
Rodó, José Enrique, 1871-1917. Ariel / José Enrique Rodó ; translation, reader's
reference, and annotated bibliograhy by Margaret Sayers Peden ; foreword by James W.
Symington ; prologue by Carlos Fuentes. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1988.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2213 .St48h
Stevenson, W.B. Twenty years in residence in South America.
London, Hurst, Robinson & Co.; [etc., etc.], 1825
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2846 .S24713 1998
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino, 1811-1888. Facundo, or, civilization and barbarism /
Domingo F. Sarmiento ; translated by Mary Mann ; introduction by Ilan Stavans.
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1998.
Microforms [Lower Level HESB] General Collection Microfilm 4166
The Two republics <Newspaper>
Mexico City :Clarke ;"The Two Republics" (Sociedad Anonimo) /1867-19-?
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2221 .UL4r En36 1764
Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795. A voyage to South America New York, Knopf, 1964.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1416 .G798 W392b
Webster, Charles Kingsley, Sir, 1886-1961. Britain and the independence of Latin
America, 1812-1830. 2 vols.
London: Oxford University Press, 1938.
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Hesburgh Library General Collection BX 1425 .A1 P83
Puebla and Beyond: documentation and commentary / edited by John Eagleson and
Philip Scharper ; translated by John Drury.
Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [1979]
Includes translation of Puebla: la evangelización en el presente y en el futuro de
América Latina, documents from the third General Conference of the Latin American
Episcopate, held in Puebla, Mexico, 1979.
Hesburgh Library General Collection BX 1425 .A2 P4 1989
Path from Puebla : significant documents of the Latin American Bishops since 1979 /
Author: Cleary, Edward L.; Berryman, Phillip.
Washington, D.C. : Secretariat, Bishops' Committee for the Church in Latin America,
National Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1989
Microforms [Lower Level HESB] Newspaper Collection
Microfilm N3 reel 1-18
New-York Daily Times.
New York : Raymond, Jones & Co., 1851-1857.
Hesburgh Library General Collection E 377 A3d 1951
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.
The Diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845 : American Diplomacy and Political,
Social, and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk. Edited by Allan Nevins.
New York, Scribner, 1951.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1413 .S77 2000
Strange Pilgrimages : Exile, Travel, and National Identity in Latin America, 1800-1990’s
/ Ingrid E. Fey and Karen Racine, editors.
Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 2000.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2235.3 .A1296
Bolívar, Simón, 1783-1830.
The Political Thought of Bolivár; Selected Writings. Ed. and with introductions by
Gerald E. Fitzgerald.
The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1971.
Hesburgh Library General Collection E 143 .L4 1972
Leonard, Irving Albert, 1896Colonial Travelers in Latin America. Edited with an introduction by Irving A. Leonard.
New York, Knopf [1972]
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1418 .D44 1975
De Onís, José.
The United States as Seen by Spanish American Writers, 1776-1890 / by José De Onís.
New York : Gordian Press, 1975 [c1952]
Microforms [Lower Level HESB] General Collection
Microfiche 4x6
Campbell, John, 1708-1775.
The Spanish Empire in America [microform]. Containing, a succinct relation of the
discovery and settlement of its several colonies; a view of their respective situations,
extent, commodities, trade, &c. ... By an English merchant.
London, M. Cooper, 1747.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 3058 .M733s En36
1809
Molina, J. Ignatius, 1737-1829.
The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili. Translated from the original
Italian of the Abbe Don J. Ignatius Molina. To which are added, notes from the Spanish
and French versions, and two appendixes, by the English editor.
[London] : Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2221 .UL4r En36
1764
Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795.
A Voyage to South America.
New York, Knopf, 1964.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2213 .St48h
Stevenson, William Bennet, b. 1787?
A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years’ Residence in South America,
Containing the Travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an Account of the
Revolution, its Rise, Progress, and Results. By W. B. Stevenson.
London, Hurst, Robinson & Co.; [etc., etc.] 1825.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2233 .V593 2002
Vizcardo y Guzmán, Juan Pablo, 1748-1798.
Letter to the Spanish Americans : A Facsimile of the Second English Edition (London,
1810) / Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzmán ; with an introduction by D.A. Brading.
Providence, R.I. : John Carter Brown Library, c2002.
Microforms [Lower Level HESB] General Collection F 2233 .V593 2002
Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of, 1775-1860.
The Autobiography of a Seaman. [microform]
London : R. Bentley, 1860.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2213 .H15
Hall, Basil, 1788-1844.
Extracts from a Journal : Written on the Coasts Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the Years
1820, 1821, 1822 / by Captain Basil Hall.
Edinburgh : A. Constable and co.; [etc., etc.], 1824.
Times (London, England : Online)
London [England] : R. Nutkins, 1788Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1409 .M22 1999
Magical Sites : Women Travelers in 19th Century Latin America / edited by Marjorie
Agosín & Julie H. Levison.
Buffalo, N.Y. : White Pine Press, c1999.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2213 .St48h
Stevenson, William Bennet, b. 1787?
A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years’ Residence in South America,
Containing the Travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an Account of the
Revolution, its Rise, Progress, and Results. By W. B. Stevenson.
London, Hurst, Robinson & Co.; [etc., etc.] 1825.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2235.4 .M565
Metford, J. C. J.
San Martín, the Liberator.
New York, Philosophical Library [1950]
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 3058 .M6 1970
Miers, John, 1789-1879.
Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts respecting the geography, geology,
statistics, government, finances, agriculture, manners, and customs, and the mining
operations in Chile; collected during a residence of several years in these countries.
New York, AMS Press [1970]
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 3446 .M64
Miller, John.
Memoirs of General Miller, in the service of the republic of Peru. By John Miller.
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2815 .R65 1971
Robertson, J. P. (John Parish), 1792-1843.
Letters on South America; comprising travels on the banks of the Paraná and Rio de la
Plata, by J. P. and W. P. Robertson. London, J. Murray, 1843.
New York, AMS Press, 1971]
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2675 .R547L
Robertson, J. P. (John Parish), 1792-1843.
Letters on Paraguay: comprising an account of a four years’ residence in that republic,
under the government of the dictator Francia.
London, J. Murray, 1839.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1412 R652
Robertson, William Spence, 1872Rise of the Spanish-American republics as told in the lives of their liberators / by
William Spence Robertson ...
New York, London : D. Appleton-Century Company, 1942, c1918.
Microforms [Lower Level HESB] General Collection
Microfiche 4 x 6
British Gentleman.
Rosas, and some of the Atrocities of his Dictatorship in the River Plate [microform] : in a
letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, &c. / by a British gentleman,
resident in Monte Video.
London : Simmonds and Clowes, 1844.
Kay, Richard. “Journal of a month’s residence in Buenos Aires.” 1819. Hesburgh
Library Special Collections, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN.
Palen, Rufus. “New York to Buenos Aires.” Personal Journal. November 23, 1841-May
24, 1843. Hesburgh Library Special Collections, University of Notre Dame, Notre
Dame, IN.
Hesburgh Library General Collection E 415.6 .G45 1968
Giddings, Joshua R. (Joshua Reed), 1795-1864.
Speeches in Congress.
New York, Negro Universities Press [1968]
Hesburgh Library General Collection E 415.7 .M223s
Maclay, William B.
A Selection of Letters Written on Various Public Occasions, by Hon. W.B. Maclay.
Washington : [n.p.] 1859.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1418 .M316di
Manning, William Ray, 1871Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States:
Washington, Carnegie endowment for international peace, 1932-39.
Microforms [Lower Level HESB] General Collection
Microfiche 4 x 6
Everett, Alexander Hill, 1790-1847.
Europe; [microform] : or, A General Survey of the Present Situation of the Principal
Powers, with Conjectures on their Future Prospects / By a citizen of the United States.
Boston : O. Everett, 1822.
Microforms [Lower Level HESB] General Collection
Microfiche 4 x 6
Mexico.
The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of
the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845 [microform] / edited by Richard Peters.
Boston : C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1845-1854.
Microforms [Lower Level HESB] General Collection
Microfilm 4278 Non-Circulating
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.
Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of his Diary from 1795 to 1848.
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1874-77.
Hesburgh Library General Collection J 33 .G132 18321861
American State Papers : Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the
United States / selected and edited under the authority of Congress.
Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1832-1861.
Hesburgh Library General Collection J 11 .A5
United States. Congress.
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States : with an Appendix
Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and all the Laws of a Public
Nature with a Copious Index / Compiled from authentic materials.
Washington, Gales and Seaton, 1834-1856.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2235.3 .A5 2003
Bolívar, Simón, 1783-1830.
El Libertador : writings of Simón Bolívar / translated from the Spanish by Frederick H.
Fornoff ; edited with an introduction and notes by David Bushnell.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Microforms [Lower Level HESB] General Collection
Microfiche 4 x 6
Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841.
Remarks of General Harrison, [microform] Late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Colombia, on Certain Charges
Made Against Him by that Government. To which is Added, an Unofficial Letter, from
General Harrison to General Bolivar, on the Affairs of Colombia; with Notes,
Explanatory of his Views of the Present State of that Country.
Washington, Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1830.
Hesburgh Library General Collection F 1418 .U685 1991
United States-Latin American Relations, 1800-1850 : The Formative Generations / edited
by T. Ray Shurbutt.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1991.
Hesburgh Library General Collection E 337.8 .P63
Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849.
Correspondence of James K. Polk. Herbert Weaver, editor. Paul H. Bergeron associate
editor.
Nashville, Vanderbilt University Press, 1969-
Hesburgh Library General Collection E 302 .J3593
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson; collected and ed. by Paul Leicester Ford ...
New York [etc.] G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1892-99.
Microforms [Lower Level HESB] General Collection
Microfiche 4 x 6
Lowe, John, merchant.
A Letter to the Right Hon. George Canning-- on the Policy of Reognising the
Independence of the South American States [microform] / by John Lowe.
London : [s.n.], 1823.
Hesburgh Library General Collection E 337.8 .C579L 1843
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852.
The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay ...
New York, R. P. Bixby & co., 1843.
Hesburgh Library General Collection E 337.8 .W373
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852.
The Papers of Daniel Webster / Charles M. Wiltse, editor, Harold D. Moser, associate
editor.
Hanover, N.H. : Published for Dartmouth College by the University Press of New
England, 1974Hesburgh Library General Collection F 2235.3 .D859m
Ducoudray-Holstein, Henri La Fayette Villaume, 1763-1839.
Memoirs of Simon Bolivar, President Liberator of the Republic of Colombia,
London, H. Colburn, 1830.