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    <title>Puerto Rican memorial collection, 1519-1923 (bulk 1833-1910)</title>
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  <abstract>Chiefly papers collected by Alice Bache Gould relating to the history of Puerto Rico together with her own correspondence, writings, and bibliographic material.  Includes papers of Rufo Manuel Fernández Carballido, priest and professor of logic and metaphysics, consisting of notes and essays on science, religion, and education in Puerto Rico and a journal (1837) of his trip to the United States; papers of Román Baldorioty de Castro relating to politics and his presidency of the Partido Autonomista Puerto-Riqueño from 1887 to 1889; and manuscript volume, formerly owned by Baldorioty de Castro, containing an account (1765) by Alejandro O'Reilly, a Spanish general, describing the population, resources, and future of Puerto Rico.  Also includes letters (1890) written by Ramón Emeterio Betances, physician and Caribbean political activist, during his exile in Paris, France.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition of containers 1-3 available, no. 18,198.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1981.</note>
  <note>Pamphlets transferred to Library of Congress Law Library.</note>
  <note>Collection material chiefly in Spanish.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008085">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008085</note>
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      <namePart>Partido Autonomista Puerto-Riqueño.</namePart>
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    <topic>Education</topic>
    <geographic>Puerto Rico</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Exiles</topic>
    <geographic>France</geographic>
    <geographic>Paris</geographic>
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    <topic>Natural resources</topic>
    <geographic>Puerto Rico</geographic>
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    <topic>Science</topic>
    <geographic>Puerto Rico</geographic>
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    <geographic>Puerto Rico</geographic>
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    <geographic>Puerto Rico</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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    <geographic>Puerto Rico</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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    <geographic>Puerto Rico</geographic>
    <topic>Population</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Puerto Rico</geographic>
    <topic>Religion</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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      <title>Román Baldorioty de Castro papers</title>
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      <namePart>Baldorioty de Castro, Román,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1889</namePart>
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      <title>Ramón Emeterio Betances correspondence</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Betances, Ramón Emeterio,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1827-1898</namePart>
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      <title>Rufo Manuel Fernández Carballido papers</title>
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      <namePart>Fernández Carballido, Rufo Manuel,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1790-1855</namePart>
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      <namePart>Gould, Alice Bache,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1953</namePart>
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      <title>Alejandro O'Reilly manuscript volume</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>O'Reilly, Alejandro,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1725-1794</namePart>
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