University of Arizona

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Documents Relating to Missions in Pimeria Alta

1733 to 1734
AZ 439
Collection Guide

The collection contains two holograph documents concerning supplies for either Mission Guevavi or San Xavier del Bac: a 1733 letter of transmittal for a supply request from Ignacio Xavier Keller, and a 1734 list of supplies needed from Felipe Segesser, both Jesuit missionaries in Sonora, Mexico.

Included materials:
Manuscript
Subject Area:
Mexico
Religion
Collection Area:
Borderlands

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