Series: 1. Lectures, 1991-1992
Scope and Content Note: This series contains materials on lectures that Edwards gave, particularly for the quincentenary of Christopher Columbus discovering the New World, at the University of California, Los Angeles. There are notes, correspondence, illustrations, and slides.

"Columbus's Navigation", 1991

Miscellaneous, mapping and remote sensing, undated
Physical Description: 57 slides (35mm) 

"On Maritime Matters", undated

Quintana Roo, Mexico, fieldwork slides, undated
Physical Description: 81 slides (35mm) 

UCLA

"Columbus: The Face of the Earth in the Age of Discovery", 1991

"Columbus: Navigation", 1991-1992

Columbus Quincentenary Programs, 1992

"Early Ship Building", 1991-1992

notes and bibliography, undated

Summer Institute, photographs, 1991

Series: 2. Publications, 1959-1993
Scope and Content Note: This series contains Edwards' publications and papers, such as articles he wrote for various journals, materials for books, presentations he gave, and other writings. It includes manuscripts, reprints, notes, and correspondence. For Edwards' publications related to the Relaciones Geográficas, see Series 3.

Papers

"Aboriginal Sail in the New World", 1965

"Columbus' Navigation: His Portuguese Mentors", 1992

"Discovery of Mexico and the Meaning of Discovery", undated

"Early Mapping of the Yucatán Peninsula", 1986

"European Discovery of Yucatán", 1987

"Francisco Pizarro, Bartolomé Ruiz, the Raft, and the Tierra Buena", undated

"Hypotheses on the Role of Watercraft in Southeast Asian Prehistory", 1968

"Maps and Minds", 1985

"Maps and the Columbian Encounter", 1992

"Maps and the Genesis of Columbus's Idea", 1992

"Maps Before and After Columbus", 1993

miscellaneous presentations and papers, 1982-1992, undated

"Nautical Technology and Maritime Routes in Mesoamerica", 1972

"Navigation in the Period of European Discoveries", undated

"Objective of Pizarro's Third Voyage Toward Peru", 1991

"Perspectives on Ancient Mariners", 1964

"Peruvian Sailing Rafts: Problems of Their Origin", 1959

"Possibilities of Pre-Columbian Maritime Contacts Among New World Civilizations", 1967-1971

"Pre-Columbian Maritime Contact Between Mesoamerica and the Andean Highlands", 1976

"Questions on Maritime Trade of Pre-Columbian Peru", 1975

"South American Log Rafts", undated

"Treasures of the American Geographical Society Collection", 1983

Publications

"Aboriginal Sail in the New World", 1965

Aboriginal Watercraft on the Pacific Coast of South America, 1963-1965

book reviews, 1973-1994

commentary in Man Across the Sea, 1971

"Commercial Sail and Small Fishing Craft of Western South America", 1967

"Design and Construction of 15th Century Iberian Ships", 1992

"Discoveries of Mexico and the Meaning of Discovery", 1986

"Impact of European Overseas Discoveries on Ship Design and Construction During the Sixteenth Century", 1992

"Indians of Bodega-Tomales Region in California", 1969

"Lancha Velera of Chiloé", 1966

"New World Perspectives on Pre-European Voyaging in the Pacific", 1969

"Possibilities of Pre-Columbian Maritime Contacts Among New World Civilizations", undated

"Pre-Columbian Maritime Trade in Mesoamerica", 1974-1975

"Recent Intensification of Resource Use in Quintana Roo, Mexico", 1980

referee on Carl Sauer's Northern Mists, 1967

"Sailing Rafts of Sechura", 1960

"The Test of Time", 1992

"Wandering Toponyms in California", correspondence and manuscript, 1964-1966

"Wandering Toponyms in California", maps, lists, and notes, undated

Series: 3. Relaciones Geográficas, 1959-1974
Scope and Content Note

The Relaciones Geográficas are a remarkable testament to the efforts by the Spanish Crown to compile and systematize basic information about its New World colonies. Beginning with a questionnaire of 50 items in the 1570s (later ballooning to more than 300 in the 1580s) regarding a wide range of natural, cultural, and demographic phenomena, the administrative responses provide an extraordinary accounting of peoples and places encountered in the process of conquest and colonization. While they were given out in order for the Spanish to govern more effectively, they can now be considered an early statistical study of the New World.

This collection consists of manuscript copies of most of the surviving Relaciones Geográficas known at the time (1970s), personally garnered from the General Archive of the Indies (Seville), major University Libraries, and other sources by Edwards. Also included are Edwards' descriptions, notes, and analyses of the materials, reprints of his publications, and ancillary materials, primarily reprints of significant scholarly treatments of the Relaciones Geográficas and their context. Especially noteworthy are papers of historian Howard Cline, long-time Director of the Hispanic Foundation of the Library of Congress, whose interest in the Relaciones Geográficas is reflected in his publications, and especially in a copy of his card catalogue of relevant documents from the General Archive of the Indies.

Ancillary Materials

Bibliographic Aids, undated

Cline, Howard F.

archive card file copy, 1973

correspondence, 1963-1973

"List of Writings 1940-1967", 1967

notes on Relaciones Geográficas of South America, undated

"Relaciones Geográficas: Geographic Aspects", undated

"Relaciones Geográficas of the Spanish Indies 1577-1586", 1964

Valladolid, Yucatán, reprints, 1959-1967

Cabrero, Leoncio F., notes, undated

Genet, Jean, notes, undated

Lanzas, Pedro Torres, notes and reprint, undated

Latorre, Germán, notes and reprint, undated

León Pinelo, Antonio de, notes and reprint, undated

reprints of articles, undated

Vilar, Sylvia, correspondence, notes, and reprint, 1970-1971

Edward's Publications

"Geographical Coverage of the Sixteenth Century Relaciones de Indias From South America", manuscript and correspondence, 1978-1980

"Mapping By Questionnaire"

analytical notes to questions, undated

correspondence and research materials, 1969, undated

notes on eclipses of the moon, 1967

"The Relaciones de Yucatán as Sources for Historical Geography", notes, reprint, and correspondence, 1974-1975, undated

General Files

Bibliography, undated

Correspondence, 1965-1992

Handbook of Middle American Indians Project, 1962

List of Colonial Governors 1577-1594, undated

"Lost Relaciones", undated

Miscellaneous Lists, 1973, undated

Notes From

Archivo General de Indias, 1972-1973

Archivo General de Simancas, 1973

Biblioteca Nacional de España, 1973

Library of Congress, 1974

University of Texas at Austin, undated

Questionnaire Translation Issue, 1968

Responses to Instruction, 1973

Review by Political Subdivision, undated

Manuscript Copies, Translations, and Notes by Region

Argentina, 1973

Bolivia, 1973

Colombia, 1973

Costa Rica, 1974

Ecuador, 1973

Guatemala, 1973, undated

Mexico

General

Brand, Donald D., 1962

list of cabeceras, undated

Orozco, Federico Gomez de, undated

Stampa, Manuel Carrera, 1969

Velasco, J. Lopez de, 1963

Michoacán, undated

Tabasco, undated

Yucatán

General

Alomia, Gustavo Martinez, undated

Chi, Antonia G., undated

lists, distribution, and notes, 1972

royal instructions to governor, undated

Mérida

analyses, undated

lists and notes, undated

locations, undated

manuscripts, undated

Valladolid

dates and comparison, undated

general, undated

manuscripts, undated

Peru, 1972-973

Puerto Rico, 1973

South America, undated

Venezuela, 1973

Series: 4. Research Aids, 1941-1993
Scope and Content Note: This series contains materials Edwards used in his research. Like the Relaciones Geográficas, it is primarily composed of copies of articles and manuscripts, with notes on them and some related correspondence. It also includes materials that supported his research, such as audio/visual materials.

Columbus

Bartholomew's map, undated

bibliography and historiography, 1992, undated

Cabot and Day, 1993, undated

cartographic impact, undated

centennials, 1989, undated

Ferrara manuscript, undated

general, undated

grant proposal, translation of Columbian materials, 1992

his ships, undated

"Informatione de Bartolomé Colón", 1973

landfall, 1989, undated

navigation, 1941-1953, undated

Zorzi manuscript, undated

General Files

archives, undated

bibliographies, 1965, undated

maritime museums, 1960-1962

Peru, early accounts, undated

pilots, masters, and shipowners, undated

Mesoamerican and South American Trade and Contact, 1969-1971, undated

Negatives, miscellaneous, 1964, undated
Physical Description: 861 safety film negatives 

News Reports, 1963
Physical Description: 2 audio cassettes 

Photographs, ships, undated

Pre-Columbian Cultural Diffusion, 1958-1966, undated

Peru, discovery and early voyages, undated

Primitive Watercraft

Africa, undated

Asia and Australia, 1962-1977, undated

Europe, 1979-1985, undated

general, undated

new world, 1992, undated

Oceania, 1957-1961, undated

South America, undated

Quintana Roo, Mexico

manuscripts, undated

recordings, 1970
Physical Description: 3 audio cassettes 

Slides, miscellaneous, 1970-1991, undated
Physical Description: 60 slides (35mm) 

Wandering Toponyms, undated

Yucatán, discovery, undated

Series: 5. University Files, 1927-2000
Scope and Content Note: This series is comprised of files on university matters, from Edwards' time as a student at the University of California, Berkeley, to his teaching career at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The series contains correspondence, notes, writings, grant applications for research, and other administrative records.

Student at UC-Berkeley

Correspondence from the Field, 1957-1958

Field Notes

Central America and Ecuador, 1958-1959

lists, distribution, and glossary, 1957-1960

Peru and Chile, 1958-1959

Quintana Roo, 1970

Lists and Dissertations, 1927-1967

MA Thesis, "Quintana Roo: Mexico's Empty Quarter", 1957

"On the New World Indigo", undated

PhD Announcements, 1936-1964

PhD Dissertation, "Aboriginal Watercraft", 1965

Sauer, Carl O.

obituaries, reviews, and commentaries, 1975-2000, undated

copies of articles, 1930-1981, undated

"Report on Integrated Study of Land Problems", copy, undated

Teaching and Administration

Correspondence

Andrews, Tony, 1988

Buisseret, David, 1985

building the schooner "Dennis Sullivan", 1992

limestone quarry in Quintana Roo, 1989

miscellaneous, 1965-1996

Smith, Tom, 1982

Geography 930, teaching materials, 1976-2000, undated

Grants

"Columbus Project", Department of Education, 1985-1988

"Environmental Impacts of Resource Mobilization", National Science Foundation, 1977

"First Spanish Landing in Mexico", National Geographic Society, 1990

"Small Mexican Coastal Watercraft", Fulbright-Hays Program, 1972

"South American Boats", Foreign Field Research Program, 1956-1973

Lectures, miscellaneous, undated

Library Committee, 1983

National Endowment for the Humanities, planning committee, 1990

Review Editor, Current Geographical Publications, 1982-1984