Clinton R. Edwards Papers, 1927-2000

Container Title
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
Box   1
Folder   52
Bibliographic Aids, undated
Cline, Howard F.
Box   1
Folder   53-54
archive card file copy, 1973
Box   1
Folder   55
correspondence, 1963-1973
Box   1
Folder   56
"List of Writings 1940-1967", 1967
Box   1
Folder   57
notes on Relaciones Geográficas of South America, undated
Box   1
Folder   58
"Relaciones Geográficas: Geographic Aspects", undated
Box   1
Folder   59
"Relaciones Geográficas of the Spanish Indies 1577-1586", 1964
Box   1
Folder   60
Valladolid, Yucatán, reprints, 1959-1967
Box   1
Folder   61
Cabrero, Leoncio F., notes, undated
Box   1
Folder   62
Genet, Jean, notes, undated
Box   1
Folder   63
Lanzas, Pedro Torres, notes and reprint, undated
Box   1
Folder   64
Latorre, Germán, notes and reprint, undated
Box   1
Folder   65
León Pinelo, Antonio de, notes and reprint, undated
Box   2
Folder   1-2
reprints of articles, undated
Box   2
Folder   3
Vilar, Sylvia, correspondence, notes, and reprint, 1970-1971
Edward's Publications
Box   2
Folder   4
"Geographical Coverage of the Sixteenth Century Relaciones de Indias From South America", manuscript and correspondence, 1978-1980
"Mapping By Questionnaire"
Box   2
Folder   5-7
analytical notes to questions, undated
Box   2
Folder   8
correspondence and research materials, 1969, undated
Box   2
Folder   9
notes on eclipses of the moon, 1967
Box   2
Folder   10-11
"The Relaciones de Yucatán as Sources for Historical Geography", notes, reprint, and correspondence, 1974-1975, undated
General Files
Box   2
Folder   12
Bibliography, undated
Box   2
Folder   13
Correspondence, 1965-1992
Box   2
Folder   14
Handbook of Middle American Indians Project, 1962
Box   2
Folder   15
List of Colonial Governors 1577-1594, undated
Box   2
Folder   16
"Lost Relaciones", undated
Box   2
Folder   17
Miscellaneous Lists, 1973, undated
Notes From
Box   2
Folder   18
Archivo General de Indias, 1972-1973
Box   2
Folder   19
Archivo General de Simancas, 1973
Box   2
Folder   20
Biblioteca Nacional de España, 1973
Box   2
Folder   21
Library of Congress, 1974
Box   2
Folder   22
University of Texas at Austin, undated
Box   2
Folder   23
Questionnaire Translation Issue, 1968
Box   2
Folder   24
Responses to Instruction, 1973
Box   2
Folder   25
Review by Political Subdivision, undated
Manuscript Copies, Translations, and Notes by Region
Box   2
Folder   26
Argentina, 1973
Box   2
Folder   27
Bolivia, 1973
Box   2
Folder   28-36
Colombia, 1973
Box   2
Folder   37
Costa Rica, 1974
Box   2
Folder   38
Ecuador, 1973
Box   2
Folder   39-41
Guatemala, 1973, undated
Mexico
General
Box   2
Folder   42
Brand, Donald D., 1962
Box   2
Folder   43
list of cabeceras, undated
Box   2
Folder   44
Orozco, Federico Gomez de, undated
Box   2
Folder   45
Stampa, Manuel Carrera, 1969
Box   6
Folder   2
Velasco, J. Lopez de, 1963
Box   6
Folder   3
Michoacán, undated
Box   2
Folder   46
Tabasco, undated
Yucatán
General
Box   2
Folder   47
Alomia, Gustavo Martinez, undated
Box   2
Folder   48
Chi, Antonia G., undated
Box   6
Folder   4
lists, distribution, and notes, 1972
Box   2
Folder   49
royal instructions to governor, undated
Mérida
Box   2
Folder   50
analyses, undated
Box   6
Folder   5
lists and notes, undated
Box   2
Folder   51
locations, undated
Box   3
Folder   1-2
manuscripts, undated
Valladolid
Box   6
Folder   6
dates and comparison, undated
Box   3
Folder   3
general, undated
Box   3
Folder   4-5
manuscripts, undated
Box   6
Folder   7
Peru, 1972-973
Box   3
Folder   6
Puerto Rico, 1973
Box   3
Folder   7
South America, undated
Box   3
Folder   8-13
Venezuela, 1973