[AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM FUTURE EMPEROR OF MEXICO AGUSTIN DE ITURBIDE TO A MEXICAN OFFICER IN THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE, CONVEYING HIS APPRECIATION AND PROMISING A RECOMMENDATION]

[Iturbide, Agustin de]

Verlag: Hacienda del Colorado, 1821

Beschreibung

[1]p. autograph letter, signed, on a folding folio sheet. Old folds. Light foxing and one small chip to outer edge without loss. Very good. A brief note written by the first Mexican emperor, Agustin de Iturbide, in the months shortly before his coronation. In this message, written less than two months before Iturbide would finally win Mexican independence from Spain, the head of the revolutionary army conveys his appreciation for Don Blas Magaña. He tells the young soldier: "My dear friend: I never doubted that your sentiments were consistent with those of every good American and [that you] wish for the happiness of your country: and I trust that wherever you were you would have the same dreams of furthering a cause so just and dignified that it would be sounded by the trumpets of goodness" [our very rough translation]. Iturbide closes by stating that he will enthusiastically convey Magaña's valuable qualities to General [Nicolás] Bravo, a hero of the Mexican War for Independence and early ally of Iturbide. Blas Magaña was at the time a young revolutionary military officer and, despite Iturbide's near-immediate removal from power, would go on to serve in various government posts, most notably as a congressman and later governor of Querétaro. He eventually perished defending the liberal government in Querétaro from conservative forces under Tomás Mejía in 1856. A rare autograph letter from one of the most important figures in Mexico's struggle for independence. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM57759

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM FUTURE ...

Verlag: Hacienda del Colorado

Erscheinungsdatum: 1821