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[Receipt for Printing of de Zavala's book about the Mexican Revolution, 1831] (open access)

[Receipt for Printing of de Zavala's book about the Mexican Revolution, 1831]

Receipt for publication of Lorenzo de Zavala's book "Ensayo histórico de las revoluciones de México: desde 1808 hasta 1830", the Paris imprint. from the Printing Works of P. Dupont and G. Laguionie.
Date: August 25, 1831
Creator: Dupont, P.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Res-appoint Zavala-translate November 8th 1835 (open access)

Res-appoint Zavala-translate November 8th 1835

A noted request for Zavala to translate the declaration, and for it to be printed and distributed to Citizens of the republic of Mexico.
Date: November 8, 1835
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Manifiesto o Memoria.] (open access)

[Manifiesto o Memoria.]

Document handwritten by Agustín de Iturbide, containing a summary of the Revolution as well as the establishment and end of the Empire.
Date: September 27, 1823
Creator: Iturbide, Agustín de, 1783-1824
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mexia to Zavala, November 10, 1832] (open access)

[Letter from Mexia to Zavala, November 10, 1832]

Mexia to Zavala: On the state of military operations and optimism for early end to the war. On the need for a horse. Huelmetoca, November 10, (1832).
Date: November 10, 1832
Creator: Mexia, Jose Antonio
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
de Zavala Park [Statement] (open access)

de Zavala Park [Statement]

Statement describing a plan to create "De Zavala Park" in Harris County including a monument remembering Lorenzo de Zavala at the location of his home and grave. The statement includes background about de Zavala and the memorial plans, with a call to contact Representative Albert Thomas to support the plan.
Date: January 1964
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Mexia to Zavala, November 10, 1832] (open access)

[Letter from Mexia to Zavala, November 10, 1832]

Mexia to Zavala: On the state of military operations and optimism for early end to the war. On the need for a horse. Huelmetoca, November 10, (1832).
Date: November 10, 1832
Creator: Mexia, Jose Antonio
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Vicente Filisola on the resistance of Tlalmanalco and Ameca (open access)

[Vicente Filisola on the resistance of Tlalmanalco and Ameca

Filisola, Vicente. [ C. of office to the Ministry of the War and Navy, accompanying another office by the command of Chalco on the resistance of Tlalmanalco and Ameca to contribute with the military services that to them were indicated. ] Mejico, C. certified by Manuel Ortiz de la Torre.
Date: October 10, 1828
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Martin Perfecto de Cos to Political Chief of Nacogdoches] August 8th, 1835 (open access)

[Letter from Martin Perfecto de Cos to Political Chief of Nacogdoches] August 8th, 1835

Transcribes a communication from the War department stating the refusal of Lorenzo Zavala to present himself in Mexico to render account of his diplomatic commission to the court of France, and that as it is known that said Zavala had landed at Brazoria coming from New Orleans, to endeavour by all possible means to have him arrested he being a very dangerous person under the present circumstances, and to send him to the disposal of the Supreme Government
Date: August 8, 1835
Creator: de Cos, Martin Perfecto
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Valentin Gomez Farias, October 11, 1834] (open access)

[Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Valentin Gomez Farias, October 11, 1834]

Lorenzo de Zavala to Valentin Gomez Farias: On the politics surrounding Andrew Jackson and the Bank of the United States. On General Paez's efforts to obtain Spanish recognition of Venezuelan independence and on rumors that Mexico will declare war on Spain if it does not recognize the former's independence. N(ew) York, October 11, 1834.
Date: October 11, 1834
Creator: Zavala, Lorenzo de, 1788-1836
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Santa Anna, March 4, 1829] (open access)

[Letter from Lorenzo de Zavala to Santa Anna, March 4, 1829]

Lorenzo de Zavala to Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna: Asking Santa Anna to take the ministry of war in Guerrero's Cabinet. On the hardships Guerrero will encounter on assuming the presidency. (Tlalpam), March 4, 1829
Date: March 4, 1829
Creator: Zavala, Lorenzo de, 1788-1836
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Frank Johnson to Mrs. Louis Zavala, July 24, 1882] (open access)

[Letter from Frank Johnson to Mrs. Louis Zavala, July 24, 1882]

Letter from Frank N. Johnson to Mrs. Louis Zavala with typed copy of Captain R.M. Potter's account of Zavala's life taken from a paper furnished by Captain Potter himself. This biography of Zavala that Potter sketches deals mostly with his political life.
Date: July 24, 1882
Creator: Johnson, Frank N. & Potter, Robert M.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History