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Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898
Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the
islands and their peoples, their history and records of
the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books
and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial
and religious conditions of those islands from their
earliest relations with European nations to the close of
the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636

Author: Various

Editor: Emma Helen Blair

Release Date: November 2, 2008 [EBook #27127]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and
their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions,
as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the
political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those
islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the
close of the nineteenth century,

Volume XXVI, 1636

Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson
with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord
Bourne.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVI

Preface 9
Documents of 1636

The nuns of St. Clare at Manila. Miguel Perez, O.S.F., and
others; Manila, 1635-36 19
Relation of 1635-36. [Unsigned; Manila?]; June 31
Letters to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; Manila,
June 30 60
Letter to Father Felipe de Cardenas. Cristobal de Lara, S.J.;
Manila, July 3 265
Letter to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, Cavite,
July 11 269
Hospitals and hospital contributions. Sebastian Hurtado de
Corcuera, a