José Ignacio Rodríguez papers, 1860-1907.

Open to research.

Correspondence; legal records; notes, drafts, and other literary papers; newspaper clippings; and other papers relating to Rodriguez's career as an author and lawyer. Documents his work involving Latin American claims commissions and governments and his writings on Latin American history. Includes material pertaining to claims against the governments of Cuba and the Dominican Republic; cases before various Spanish and American Claims commissions, the French and American Claims Commission, the Joint Commission of Costa Rica and the United States, the United States and Mexican Claims Commission, and the Bureau of the American Republics, Washington, D.C.; individual litigations including cases from the legations of Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, and Uruguay; and the establishment the El Salvadoran legation in Washington, D.C., in 1894 and extradition of El Salvadorean refugees, 1894-1895. Individuals represented include Antonio Maximo Mora, Néstor Ponce de León, and Julio Sanguily. Includes papers of José Manuel Mestre and records of the Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del Pais, Cuba, and of the Cuban Junta, New York, N.Y.

Selected materials transferred to appropriate custodial divisions of the Library of Congress.

Cuban-American lawyer and author.

Collection material in Spanish and English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013046