Alcance y Contenido:

Legajo 102. 1774-1805. Correspondencia del obispo de Cuba al Sr. Gálvez. B, 25 cm., 600 letters. The extreme dates of documents noted were 1774 and 1802; nothing was seen for the years 1775, 1777, 1779, and 1800. The legajo is completely disorganized. The legajo is made up of the following series of correspondence:

(a) Bishop of Cuba, Habana, to: 1774, 1776, Luis de Unzaga; 1778, 1780, 1781, 1783, Bernardo de Gálvez; and 1783, 1787, Esteban Miró.

(b) Cirilo de Barcelona, bishop of Tricaly, to: 1782, Francisco Bouligny; 1784, 1785, 1787, 1788, 1790, Esteban Miró; and 1792, Barón de Carondelet.

(c) Fr. Antonio de Sedella to Esteban Miró, 1786, 1788, 1789. (d) Luis de Peñalver y Cárdenas, bishop of Luisiana, to: 1795-1797, Barón de Carondelet; 1798, Vicente Folch; 1797-1799, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos; 1799, marqués de Casa Calvo; and, 1801, Manuel de Salcedo. (e) 1792-1793, Teodoro Tirso Enrique Enriquez to Barón de Carondelet; 1790-1791, Joaquin Portillo to Barón de Carondelet; 1794-1795, Patricio Walsh to Barón de Carondelet; 1804-1805, Patricio Walsh to marqués de Casa Calvo; and, 1802, Joaquin de la Torre to Manuel de Salcedo.

Many of the letters are accompanied by the drafts of the replies. Subjects treated: The theme of the whole legajo is the religious affairs of Luisiana. The items of interest include: Ecclesiastical appointments; moral matters coming under the control of the Church; list of members of the "Orden Seráfica" (capuchins) destined to Luisiana (1787) ; and religious work among the english and americans in the territory conquered from England (1787)