Archive and Library

Resources (2)

• California Mission Documents

  Records, 1521–1938, ca. 4,800 items. Some materials relate to Russo-Spanish relations and to the peace of 1803, the Russian settlement at Fort Ross, and Russian barter trade with the Spanish in San Francisco (correspondence, diaries, and reports, 1803–33). Also, information about the conversion (to Catholicism), baptism, and marriage of various Russians. (NUCMC 75–782)

• De la Guerra Family. Papers, 1780-1885

  ca. 2,000 items. Spanish landowners in California. Personal and business letters and reports, all handwritten in Spanish, contain references to Russians and Russian settlements in California, Russian ships, and Russians sent to Mexico. Copies of these original documents are in the Bancroft Library (Berkeley, California) and the Huntington Library (San Marino, California). (NUCMC 75–784).