Miguel Bolaños Cacho Papers

Legal files, personal business records, correspondence, literary productions, printed material, photographs, and scrapbooks from the professional and personal activities of Miguel Bolaños Cacho. Legal files include case files, related correspondence, and other legal documents from lawsuits about land tenure, payment of debts, other civil matters, and a few criminal cases. Documentation of personal business and family affairs includes correspondence about Bolaños Cacho's private property, business interests, and family matters. Most correspondence with brother, Emilio Bolaños Cacho, relates to events during the Mexican revolution of 1910-1920 and associated problems with disposal of property. Also in Series II are legal documents pertaining to real estate, mining claims, and inheritance; records of a fishing business; financial documents of the San Luís Beltrán and Aguilera haciendas; inventories of Bolaños Cacho's private library; assorted financial and other documents; and Bolaños Cacho's obituaries.

Bolaños Cacho's literary activities are reflected in literary productions and associated correspondence, and his publishing activities in printed material, correspondence, drafts, and financial documents. Records of his political career, mostly concerning the state of Oaxaca, include correspondence; laws and regulations; and periodicals. Scrapbooks contain clippings about his political and literary activities. Photographs and portraits are of Bolaños Cacho and family members. In Subgroup II, papers of wife, María Maceyra de Bolaños Cacho, and other family members include correspondence, legal and financial documents, and printed material relating to family matters and estate business, and artwork.

The papers are in Spanish.