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Manuscript/Mixed Material Manuscript dispatch in Spanish

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Title

  • Manuscript dispatch in Spanish

Summary

  • This endorsed "Copy of the letter the duke my lord wrote to the governors of the Indies in the year 1587" is the official "model" of a set of letters sent by the Duke at the behest of King Philip II of Spain. The attached slip is a list of the addressees: it specifies the governors of Havana ( i.e. , of Cuba), of Cartagena, of Puerto Rico and of Florida (Pedro Menéndez Marqués, whose name is here entered), the audiencias (governing supreme courts) of Santo Domingo and Panama, the alcaldes (chief magistrates) of the lesser islands of Jamaica and La Margarita, and Alvaro Flores de Quiñones, the Captain-General of the armed fleet expected to return that year from America via Havana.

Names

  • Medina Sidonia, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, duque de, 1550-1619
  • Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • May 1587.

Headings

  • -  Drake, Francis,--approximately 1540-1596--Early works to 1800
  • -  Medina Sidonia, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán,--duque de,--1550-1619
  • -  Armada, 1588
  • -  West Indies Expedition, 1585-1586

Notes

  • -  Unsigned: drafted as the model for letters sent by the Duke to authorities in Spanish settlements in the Caribbean area, informing them of Drake's recent attack on Spanish shipping at Cadiz and warning them that he may intend to attack them. Paper, 1 1/4 pp. Folio (315 x 215 mm.), with attached slip. Endorsed on verso of second (blank) folio.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Description based on Global Gateway metadata.
  • -  drakenew

Medium

  • 1 sheet

Repository

  • Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbc.home

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021699427

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

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Chicago citation style:

Medina Sidonia, Alonso Pérez De Guzmán, Duque De, and Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection. Manuscript dispatch in Spanish. May, 1587. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021699427/.

APA citation style:

Medina Sidonia, A. P. D. G. & Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection. (1587) Manuscript dispatch in Spanish. May. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021699427/.

MLA citation style:

Medina Sidonia, Alonso Pérez De Guzmán, Duque De, and Hans And Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection. Manuscript dispatch in Spanish. May, 1587. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021699427/>.