Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810--Sources

Documents by and about Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, a poet, author, mathematician, historian, and geographer.

Correspondence, writings, and official documents pertaining to Mier, Dominican friar and revolutionary, reflecting conditions in colonial Mexico and Spanish America in the early 19th century.

Papers of Lucas Alamán, Mexican statesman, political leader and historian, include documents pertaining to colonial administration and church history of Mexico in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and nineteenth century correspondence and documents concerning Mexican government, political, and military affairs.