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Overview |
| Title: |
Cordovés
and Bolaños Families Collection, 1878-1999 |
| Collection
No: |
CHC0398 |
| Extent: |
0.50
linear ft. |
| Repository: |
Cuban
Heritage Collection, University
of Miami Libraries |
| Location: |
39E5 |
Abstract: |
The
Cordovés and Bolaños Families Collection
contains
letters, documents, and photographs from Cuba's
Wars
of Independence and the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
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| Administrative
Information |
| Acquisition
Information: |
Gift
of Julio A. Mestre, 1994 and 1999 |
| Processed
by: |
Esperanza
B. de Varona, May 1994; Updated by María R.
Estorino, 2001 |
| Encoded
by: |
Pedro
Figueredo and Jeff Barry, November 2001 |
| Access
Restrictions: |
This
collection is unrestricted. |
| Preferred
Citation: |
Cordovés
and Bolaños Families Collection, Cuban Heritage
Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral
Gables, Florida. |
| Copyright
Statement: |
© 2001
University of Miami. All rights reserved. Permission
to publish materials must be obtained
from the Director
of the Cuban Heritage Collection. |
| Note: |
This
title of this collection was changed in 2001
from
the Julio A. Mestre Collection to the Cordovés and
Bolaños Families Collection per the donor's instructions. |
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| Biographical
Note |
Julio
Angel Mestre is an exiled Cuban economist who
was born in Havana, Cuba in 1935. He is the
son of Aida Margarita Cordovés Bolaños and Juan José Mestre
Miyares and grandson of Julio Cordovés y de la
Paz and Isabel Bolaños Fundora. The Cordovés
and Bolaños families were involved in Cuba's
Wars of Independence against Spain. Rosario (Charo)
and Encarnita Lastra, great-aunts of Mestre,
were members of the Cuban Liberation Army (Mambises)
within the brigade headed by José María Aguirre,
Chief of the Division of Havana, and served under
Generalísimo Máximo Gómez.
Mestre
studied at the Colegio de la Salle in Havana
and graduated with a degree in economics
from the Universidad Católica de Santo Tomás
de Villanueva in 1957. He served as number
3195 in the Brigade 2506 during the Bay
of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in 1961. Later,
he
worked for Union Panamericana in Washington,
DC (1963-1965), for CBS/Time Life (1965-1968),
and for Kodak Corp. in Venezuela (1968-1972).
Mestre established private businesses in
Venezuela, Santo Domingo, and Madrid. He
and his wife, Sandra Teresita Caballero,
have two sons. After residing for many
years in Venezuela, Mestre now makes his
home in
the United States. Tomás
Estrada Palma
Tomás
Estrada Palma was born in Bayamo, Cuba on
9 July 1835. He studied law, and joined the
rebel forces during the revolution of 1868-1878.
After nine years of service, he was captured
and imprisoned in Spain until the end of
the insurrection. After his release, he went
to Honduras, where he became postmaster of
the republic. Later he moved to the United
States and opened a school for Latin American
students at Central Valley, New York. With
a new revolt in Cuba in 1895, Estrada Palma
was elected delegate-at-large and minister
plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cuba in
arms and took charge of the well known council
in the United States which purchased arms,
organized filibustering expeditions and otherwise
aided the army in the field. In 1901, he
was elected president of the Cuban republic
and was inaugurated on 20 May 1902. On 23
September 1905, he was again elected to the
office of president but resigned 28 September
1906. Estrada Palma died on 4 November 1908
and is buried in Santiago de Cuba.
Carlos
J. Finlay
Carlos
J. Finaly was born in Camagüey, Cuba on 3
December 1833. The son of a Scottish physician
and a French mother, Finlay was educated
in France. He studied medicine at Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia and at the
University of Havana. Even though he was
a general practitioner, the problem of yellow
fever obsessed him from the early years of
his practice. After years of investigation,
Finlay presented his findings to the Havana
Academy of Science in 1881 that the mosquito
was the agent of the disease. His colleagues
received this theory with indifference, but
he held to it, and during the ensuing twenty
years, he built up a good circumstantial
case. Finlay's arguments were influential
in persuading the Dr. Walter Reed Board in
1900 to concentrate on the transmitting vector,
led to the eradication of the disease form
the tropics, and ended a terrible epidemic
that killed thousands of people. Cuba, France,
Britain and the United States awarded him
medals and degrees as one of the great benefactors
of humanity. Finlay died in Havana on 20
August 1915.
Máximo
Gómez y Baez
Máximo
Gómez y Baez was born in Baníi, Santo
Domingo in 1831. When Santo Domingo was liberated
from the Spanish, he went to Cuba. In 1868
he joined the Cuban insurrection, and through
his ability and daring soon became major-general.
Gómez was influential in bringing about the
insurrection of 1895-98 and was made commander-in-chief
of the Cuban army. His policy was to avoid
open engagements and to drive the Spaniards
out by devastating the island and constantly
harassing their troops. When the Americans
landed in Cuba in 1898, he assisted the American
governor-general in his work in the island.
Gómez was governor of the province of Santa
Clara and a member of the Constitutional
Convention. He died in Havana on 17 June
1905.
Antonio
Maceo y Grajales
Antonio
Maceo y Grajales was born in Santiago de
Cuba on 14 July 1848. He joined the insurgent
army in 1868. His natural military ability,
patriotism and personal magnetism as a
leader soon brought him to the forefront,
making
him second only to Máximo Gómez. Maceo alone
of all the Cuban generals refused to sign
the Treaty of Zanjón after the Ten Years
War against Spain in 1878. He went to the
United States and other countries in America
seeking support for the cause of Cuban Independence.
During the War of Independence, conducting
the Invasion from "Oriente a Occidente," Maceo
was surrounded by a Spanish force and killed
on 7 December 1896. |
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| Scope
and Content Note |
The
Cordovés & Bolaños Families Collection
contains letters, clippings, documents,
and photographs
from Cuba's Wars of Independence and the
Bay of Pigs Invasion. |
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| Series
Descriptions |
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Series I. Cuban Independence Wars, 1878-1911
(bulk dates 1896-1898)
Extent: 16 folders (Box 1)
The
Cuban Independence Wars series consists of autographed
letters from prominent Cuban figures of the
Independence
Wars of 1868-1878 and 1895-1898 and a copy of
the "Pacto de Zanjón" (Zanjon Treaty), 1878. Some
of the most important letters included in this
series are eight signed letters from Major General
Antonio Maceo to Brigadier José María Aguirre,
Chief of the Division of Havana during the Cuban
Invasion from "Oriente to "Occidente' in 1896;
a signed letter by Tomás Estrada Palma, the first
president of the Republic of Cuba; an autographed
personal letter dated 1904 from Generalísimo Máximo
Gómez, General Commander in Chief of the Cuban
Liberation Army; and a letter signed by Carlos
J. Finlay, the doctor who discovered that mosquitoes
transmit yellow fever.
Series II. Julio A. Mestre Papers, ca. 1961-1999
Extent: Nine folders (Box 1)
Included
in this series are newspaper clippings and photographs
of the Bay of Pigs Invasion; a photograph of Fidel
Castro in a meeting with Pedro Tinoco, former
president of the Central Bank of Venezuela; and
a copy of the magazine The Nation from
13 April 1964 containing the article, "Bay of
Pigs: The Unanswered Questions," by Jean Edward
Smith.
This
series consists of business cards, clippings,
and the January-February 1956 issue of the Habana
Yacht Club magazine.
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| Container
List |
| Series I. Cuban Independence Wars, 1878-1911
(bulk dates 1896-1898) |
| Box |
Folder |
Folder
Title |
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Sub-Series.
A. Correspondence |
| 1 |
1 |
Avalos,
Emilio, 1898 |
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2 |
Cardenas,
R. de, 1896 |
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3 |
Castillo,
Adolfo del, 1896 |
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4 |
Cordovés,
Julio, 1911 |
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5 |
Estrada
Palma, Tomás, 1896 |
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6 |
Finlay,
Carlos J., 1898 |
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7 |
García,
Eduardo, 1898 |
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8 |
Gómez,
Máximo, 1904 |
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9 |
Jefe
del Dept. de Oriente, ca. 1896 |
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10 |
Maceo,
Antonio, 1896 |
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11 |
Nodarse,
Orencio, 1896 |
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12 |
Ochande,
Federico, 1878 |
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13 |
Rodríguez,
Alejandro, 1898 |
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14 |
Sánchez,
Silverio, 1896 |
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15 |
To
Violeta, 1898 |
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Sub-Series
B. Documents |
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16 |
Zanjón
Treaty, 1878 |
Series II. Julio A. Mestre Papers, ca. 1961-1999
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| Box |
Folder |
Folder
Title |
| 1 |
17 |
Correspondence
(photocopies), 1960-1965 |
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18 |
Correspondence,
1995-1999 |
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19 |
Manuscript,
1996-1999 |
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20 |
Documents,
1960-1963 |
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21 |
Documents:
Brigade 2506 (photocopies), n.d. |
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22 |
Clippings,
1964 |
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| 23
| Clippings,
1997 |
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24 |
Publications,
1964 |
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25 |
Photographs:
Bay of Pigs, ca. 1961 |
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26 |
Photographs:
Unidentified, n.d. |
Series III. Miscellaneous, n.d., 1952-1956
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| Box |
Folder |
FolderTitle |
| 1 |
27 |
Business
Cards, n.d. |
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28 |
Clippings,
n.d., 1952 |
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29 |
Habana
Yacht Club, 1956 |
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| Related
Materials |
| Cuban
Heritage Collection Manuscript Collections: CHC0460
Tomás Estrada Palma Collection
CHC
Pamphlets Collection No. 12: Cuban Independence
Wars
CHC0347 Cuban Manuscripts Collection
Selected
published materials in CHC and/or the University
of Miami's Otto G. Richter Library:
Tomás
Estrada Palma:
Collazo,
Enrique. Desde
Yara hasta el Zanjon; apuntaciones historicas.
Habana: Tip. de "La Lucha," 1893.
Corzo
Pi, Daniel. Historia
de Don Tomás Estrada Palma [microform], su juventud
y estudios, revolucionario y delegado, presidente
de Cuba, ultimos años de una vida laboriosa en
la miseria, espistolario, documentos.
Habana: Impr. de Diaz y Castro; Guantanamo: Medano
y Ricardo, [193-?].
Cuba.
Departamento de Estado. Documentos
internacionales referentes al reconocimiento de
la república de Cuba. 1904. Habana: La
Moderna Poesía, 1904.
Estrada
Palma, Tomás. Mensaje
del presidente Tomas Estrada Palma al congreso
de la República de Cuba al inaugurarse la 2 legislatura
de 1904. Habana: Imprenta, Papeleria y
Encuadernación de Rambla y Bouza, 1904. [Signed
by Tomás Estrada Palma]
Iznaga,
R. Tres
años de república, folleto político, por R. Iznaga
Tomás Estrada Palma El gobierno y la administración
pública desde 1902 á 1905. El estado actual del
pueblo cubano. Por la paz y por la república.
Habana: Rambla y Bouza, 1905.
Martínez
Ortíz, Rafael. Cuba, los primeros años de independencia.
Paris: "Le Livre libre," 1929.
Carlos
J. Finlay:
Amaro
Méndez, Sergio. Alas
amarillas: la historia de Carlos J. Finlay y su
descubrimiento. Havana: Editorial Científico-Técnica,
1983.
Cuba.
Ministerio de Salud y Asistencia Hospital. Dr.
Carlos J. Finlay and the "Hall of Fame" of New
York. Havana, 1959.
Finlay,
Carlos E. Carlos
Finlay and Yellow Fever. New York: Oxford
University Press for the University of Havana,
1940.
Portell-Vilá,
Herminio. Finlay:
vida de un sabio cubano. Miami, FL: La
Moderna Poesía, 1990.
Ramos,
Domingo F. Cuba
en la higiene internacional y Finlaismo.
Havana, Imp. La Propagandista, 1924.
Rodríguez
Expósito, César. Carlos
J. Finlay, 1833-1915. Havana: Departamento
de Relaciones Nacionales del Ministerio de Salud
Pública, 1965.
Máximo
Gómez:
Bosch,
Juan. Máximo
Gómez, de Monte Cristi a la gloria, tres años
de guerra en Cuba. Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic: Editora Alfa & Omega, 1986.
Carrillo,
Mario. In
the Saddle with Gomez. New York: F. T.
Neely, 1898.
Castellanos
G., Gerardo. Legado
mambí; formación, odisea y agonía del archivo
del general Máximo Gómez. Havana: Ucar
García y cía., 1940.
Céspedes
y Quesada, Carlos Manuel de. Un
instante decisivo de la maravillosa carrera de
Máximo Gómez. Habana: Imprenta "El Siglo
XX", 1932.
Gómez,
Máximo. Cartas
a Francisco Carrilo. Havana: Instituto
Cubano del Libro, 1971.
Gómez,
Máximo. Revoluciones
- Cuba y hogar. Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic: Editora Alfa y Omega, 1986.
Antonio
Maceo:
Alonso
Pujol, Guillermo. Maceo:
discursos pronunciados. Havana: Editorial
Publicitas, 1945.
Archivo
Nacional de Cuba. Antonio
Maceo, documentos para su vida, homenaje del Archivo
Nacional de Cuba al lugarteniente general del
Ejército libertador en el centenario de su nacimiento,
1845-1945. Havana, 1945.
Briceño
Perozo, Mario. Antonio
Maceo: la voz del huracán. Caracas, Venezuela:
Talleres de Italgráfica, 1991.
Dorta-Duque,
Manuel. Maceo
(el soldado): lo peculiar de su vida desde Yara
a Baraguá (1868-1878). San Juan, PR: Ediciones
Joyuda, 1982.
Mármol,
José G. Antonio
Maceo Grajales: El Titán de Bronce. Miami,
FL: Ediciones Universal, 1998.
Miró
Argenter, José. Muerte
del general Maceo, (relato del suceso), seguido
de una refutación a la farsa oficial.
Key West, FL: Impr. de "El Yara", 1897. |
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