International Subject Guide: Latin America

Latin American material held in the Archives & Special Collections appears in lists for three categories:

• manuscript collections
• non-fiction publications
• fiction & literary criticism

 

Contact Information: Archives & Special Collections

Located on the third floor of the J.D. Williams Library and open Monday through Friday from 9am to 4pm (except during holidays).

Email:  archivesdept@olemiss.edu

Phone:  (662) 915-1595

Thomas G. Abernethy.  1924-1972. Thomas G. Abernethy of Mississippi served in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1943 and 1973.  Boxes 237, 238, and 239 contains files related to Abernethy’s congressional tour of Africa and Suriname in 1970.  Box 364 holds material on his 1955 Committee on Agriculture trip to the Dominican Republic.  454 boxes.  Note:  This collection is stored at an off-site facility.  Researchers must request boxes at least two business days in advance of their intended visit.

Jennie and Lucia Adams Collection.  1845-1944. Papers of a family from Cedar Mound Plantation in Coahoma County outside of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Box 2, Folder 2 holds a postcard dated 4 April 1904 from Guardia Rural, Cuba.  13 boxes.

American Association of University Women (AAUW) Collection.  1906-1992. The AAUW is a national organization that promotes education and equality for all women.  Boxes 102 and 103 contain international material, including items related to the International Federation of University Women (IFW).  Box 102 also contains Folder 8 “AAUW Report on Latin America, 1956”; Folder 14 “National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year, Mexico City, 1975”; and Folder 15 “From Mexico City to Nairobi” The U.N. Decade for Women, 1975-1985.”  129 boxes.

Marge Baroni Collection.  1955-1985. Marge Baroni was a white native of Natchez, Mississippi who became active in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. A Catholic, she developed a friendship with Dorothy Day, a leading activist in the Catholic Worker Movement which advocated peace and social justice.  Box 2, Folder 2 includes a 1961 letter from Paul H. Hallett (Associate Editor of The Register) to Marge Baroni which discusses The Catholic Worker, Cuba, and communism.  Box 15, Folder 11 contains Robert C. Ruark’s “Moralizing Is Getting Us Nowhere in Cuba.”  21 boxes.

Lionel Baxter Collection.  1851-1986. Box 1, Folder 7 contains a handwritten letter dated 29 October 1872 from U.S. Army General William S. Rosecrans in Mexico to Rosa Kingsley. 9 boxes.

Mrs. Emma Faser Birchett Collection.  1874-1988. Box 1, Folder 12 includes a postcard “Golden Altar at the Church of San Jose in Panama City, Panama.”  2 boxes.

Blanton-Smith Collection.  1844-1988. Collection of correspondence of the Blanton family who were early settlers near Greenville, Mississippi and owned several plantations.  Binder 2 includes a letter dated 25 July 1849 from William L. Blanton on the U.S. ship “St. Louis” in Montevideo, Uruguay, to Harriet Byron McCallister Blanton Theobald in Greenville, Mississippi.  2 boxes & 2 binders.

Blues Archive Newsletters Collection.  Latin America issues include the following:  Alluid (Mexico) Special Collections has June-September 1990; Blues ‘N’ Jazz (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Special Collections has January-June 1998; Blues Pres Zine (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Special Collections has No. 1; Blues Special (Buenos Aries, Argentina) Special Collections has March-June 1993 and undated 1994; Conecte (Mexico) Special Collections has D.F. No. 541-43; Jam (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Special Collections has August 1989; Jazz Band (Mexico) Special Collection has No. 6 which includes a poster of slaves in New Orleans.

Blues Archive Poster Collection.  1926-2012. Drawer 12, Folder 2 contains a poster for the Festival de Blues en Mexico featuring John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Rogers, Willie Dixon, and Walter Horton (undated).  Drawer 13, Folder 2 has a poster for the third annual Festival de Blues en Mexico featuring Lightnin’ Hopkins and others in October 1980.  Drawer 14, Folder 9 includes a poster for the first annual Festival de Blues en Mexico featuring John Lee Hooker and others (undated).  Drawer 16, Folder 5 includes a poster for the Tercer Festival de Blues en Mexico featuring Lightnin’ Hopkins, Willie Dixon, and others in October 1980.  Drawer 13, Folder 2 contains a poster for Instruments of the Steel Orchestra, Trinidad, dated 1988 and a poster for the Pan Is Beautiful V World Steelband Festival in Trinidad and Tobago in 1988.  16 poster drawers.

Blues Unpublished Manuscripts and Theses Collection.  1972-1997. Box 5, Folder 1 contains Hollis Urban Liverpool’s “Rituals of Rebellion:  The Origin, Development, and Role of the Carnival of Trinidad and Tobago, 1783 to 1962” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1991).  6 boxes.

Blues Videos Collection.  1979-2005. VHS recording #361 is “Trinidad Dance Theatre” (undated).  VHS recording #303 is “The Terror and the Time:  Notes on the Repressive Violence in Guyana” (undated) accompanied by a written message to folklorist Bill Ferris.  Note:  This collection is in cold storage at an off-site facility and requires at least two business days advance notice in order to acclimate the recording to room temperature and transfer it to Special Collections. 

M.W. Boyd Collection.  1861-1886. Civil War and Reconstruction era correspondence of Mississippi surgeon M.W. Boyd, who became a captain in the Confederate Army and later migrated to Brazil.  1 box.

Calvin S. Brown Collection.  1884-1926. Box 2, Folder 4 contains the 1922 map “Countries of the Caribbean.”  2 boxes.

Roane Fleming Byrnes Collection.  1854-1937. Family papers of Roane Fleming Byrnes of Natchez, Mississippi.  Byrnes served as president of the Natchez Trace Association for over twenty-five years.  Box 31, Folder 6 contains a 1941 review by Frederick Cron of G.W. Featherstonhaugh’s An Excursion through the Slave States from Washington on the Potomac to the Frontier of Mexico (1844).  Box 38 includes Can You Find Your Way in Mexico?  Souvenir Guide and Shopping List (1902).  Box 42 has an undated street map of Mexico City.  Box 18, Folder 10 contains miscellaneous materials and correspondence from Roane Fleming Byrnes’ associates in Cuba and Mexico.  It is possible additional correspondence from these associates may be found amongst the general correspondence folders of the collection.  46 boxes.

Chancellors Collection/J.D. Williams.  1901-1978. J.D. Williams served as chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1946 to 1968.  Box 5, Folder 11 contains correspondence related to Williams’ trip to Mexico in 1958.  34 boxes.

Cleveland/Wilson Collection.  1962-1964. Correspondence received by the presidents of the University of Mississippi Associated Student Body regarding the integration of that institution.  Box 2, Folder 7 includes a typed letter dated 19 October 1962 from Mrs. G. McGreevy of Phoenix, Arizona to “Students of Ole Miss” with an enclosed clipping “Negro Who Fled to Cuba Calls for U.S. Violence.”  4 boxes.

J.P. Coleman Collection.  1965-1985. J.P. Coleman served on the bench of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1965 to 1984. Box 28 includes the circa 1965 court case file for Turner, Elmo A., Jr. v. Jack Tar Grand Bahama, Limited, et al. regarding personal injuries sustained while attending a sales convention held at the appellee’s hotel in the Grant Bahamas. 79 boxes.  Note:  This collection is stored at an off-site facility.  Researchers must request boxes at least two business days in advance of their intended visit.

Thelma T. Collums Collection.  1940-1952. Thelma T. Collums was Mississippi teacher and children’s short story author.  Box 1, Folder 6, contains a large scrapbook with documents, diary, and a travelogue of a 1940 trip to Cuba. 1 box.

Conferences Collection.  1908-2001. Box 2, Folder “1996” contains material related to the University of Mississippi Porter L. Fortune History Symposium “The South in the Caribbean, October 2-4, 1996.”  2 boxes.

Cultural Events Collection.  1907-2006. Cultural events at the University of Mississippi.  Box 2, Folder 20 contains material on the November 1966 Artist Series program “Ballet Folklore of Mexico.” Box 4, Folder 1 contains information on the 1983 Artist Series program “Ballet Folklorico Nacional de Mexico” and Folder 22 on the 2003 Ford Series program “Ballet Gran Folklorico de Mexico.”  Box 6, Folder 3 includes material on the art exhibition “Paintings of Mexico by Susan Ricker Knox” (undated).  6 boxes.

Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) David Reese Chapter, Oxford, Mississippi Collection.  1897-1966. Box 1, Folder 15 contains two letters from 1967-1968 from Enid Warlaw Scott in Cristobal, Canal Zone, Panama. 18 boxes.

John G. Douglas Collection.  1916-1975. Collection contains over 350 letters from geologist John G. Douglas to his mother, father, and wife while working in the oil fields of Venezuela between 1924 and 1949.  Box 2, Folder 44 also holds a Douglas letter written from Port au Prince, Haiti in 1940.  His wife, Violet Marshall Douglas, was the daughter of William T. Marshall, and additional material on John and Violet Douglas is present in the William T. Marshall Collection.  3 boxes. 

James O. Eastland Collection. 1930-1978. A Democrat from Mississippi, James O. Eastland served in the U.S. Senate for a few months in 1941 and then from 1943 until his retirement in 1978.  Note:  This collection is stored at an off-site facility.  Researchers must request boxes (providing File Series #, Subseries #, and Box #) at least two business days in advance of their intended visit.

• File Series 1, Subseries 14:  Trips, Box 1 consists of material related to his foreign trips in congressional delegations which include a 1967 trip to South America, a 1974 trip to Costa Rica, 1977 travel to Panama, and a 1978 trip to South America. 
• File Series 1, Subseries 16:  Executive Branch Correspondence contains White House correspondence on general trade and foreign relations issues as well as the following specific documents (all items in File Series 1, Subseries 16 have been digitized and are available online in the James O. Eastland Digital Collection):
  • Box 1, Folder 10 includes 1959 correspondence from Eastland to the Economic Advisor to the President, regarding Mexico and cotton exports;
  • Box 1, Folder 14 includes 1962 correspondence with President John F. Kennedy about lawyers and the Cold War which includes a typed manuscript “Law Program for Latin America Appendix B”;
  • Box 1, Folder 24 contains a copy of a 1978 letter from the secretary of the Puerto Rican House of Representatives regarding a resolution upon the death of Hubert Humphrey;
  • Box 2, Folder 11 contains a copy of a typed manuscript “White House Briefing, Panama Canal Treaties, Tuesday, August 23, 1977”;
  • Box 2, Folder 13 includes correspondence with an assistant to President Carter regarding the Gulf South and Latin America, a 6 September 1977 letter from Frank Moore on the Panama Canal Treaty, and a 5 November 1977 letter from President Carter on the Panama Canal Treaty;
  •  Box 2, Folder 15 contains a White House press releases from 1978 on a treaty with Bolivia on convicted citizens and the Panama Canal Treaty;
•  File Series 1, Subseries 17 contains correspondence with various federal government departments, commissions, and agencies (which may contain material related to Latin America) including the following:  Agency for International Development, Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Department of Justice – Immigration & Naturalization Service, Department of State (including specific agencies and bureaus within it), Department of War, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States, International Cooperation Commission, International Joint Commission, Mutual Security Agency, Peace Corps, U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and the War Claims Commission. 
• File Series 1, Subseries 18:  Congressional Correspondence contains letters between Senator Eastland and his colleagues in the House and Senate.  With an item-level description for every document, researchers can conduct keyword searches across the subseries inventory for their topic – click on the link “Container List” at the end of the subseries’ description. 
• File Series 1, Subseries 22:  Patronage, Nominations, Employment, & School Recommendations includes files on individuals seeking positions on federal departments or agencies with international missions, such as the Department of State.  Files are organized by name of the job applicant with the name of the prospective employer and time span of documents within each file.  As a result, researchers can conduct keyword searches across the subseries inventory for “Department of State” candidates (or others) – click on the link “Container List” at the end of the subseries’ description.
• Series 2, Subseries 1:  Photographs, Negatives, and Slides possesses an item-level description for every image which allows for a “Control F” keyword search across the subseries for research topics – click on the link “Container List” at the end of the subseries’ description.
• Series 2, Subseries 2:  Audio Recordings includes the following:
  •  Audio Reel 32 “Radio Free Dixie Broadcast from Cuba” (circa 1961-1965) with music, commentary by Robert F. Williams, and news.  Note: Although part of the Eastland Digital Collection (as eastland_audioreel_32), it is only available to on site researchers on J.D. Williams Library computers.
  • Cassette 2A with a circa 1970-71 interview of Eastland which includes discussion of Cuba.  Note: Although part of the Eastland Digital Collection (as eastland_cassette_2_A), it is only available to on site researchers on J.D. Williams Library computers.
  • Cassette 41A “Human Rights in Panama” (circa 1970s).  Note: Although part of the Eastland Digital Collection (as eastland_audioreel_41_A), it is only available to on site researchers on J.D. Williams Library computers.
  • Cassette 44A & 44B “Inside Story on the Panama Canal Crisis” (1977) Freedom forum discussion against the Panama Canal Treaty narrated by U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch with additional speakers U.S. Representative John M. Murphy, U.S. Senator James B. Allen, U.S. Representative Philip M. Crane, U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt, and Admiral Thomas H. Moorer.  Note: Although part of the Eastland Digital Collection (as eastland_cassette_44_A and eastland_cassette_44_B), it is only available to on site researchers on J.D. Williams Library computers.
• Series 2, Subseries 3:  Audiovisual Recordings includes 16mm Film 48 containing two episodes of the television program “Citizens’ Council Forum” with guest speaker James O. Eastland.  The second episode includes discussion of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and the Latin American Conference for National Sovereignty.  Note: Available online as part of the Eastland Digital Collection as eastland_16mm_48.
• Series 2, Subseries 4:  Clippings includes folders on foreign relations arranged by year.
• Series 2, Subseries 5: Floor Speeches includes an undelivered 1959 Senate speech on foreign policy with Cuba (Box 5, Folder 5); an April 1965 Senate speech on foreign policy with the Dominican Republic (Box 6, Folder 40); and 1978 Senate speeches on the Panama Canal (Box 9, Folder 68 & 75.
• Series 2, Subseries 6: Speeches includes a September 1958 speech on the relationship of the U.S. and Dominican Republic at the joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives in Cuidad Trujillo, Dominican Republic (Box 2, Folder 33) and the file “1960s – Communism – Cuba” (Box 4, Folder 39).
• Series 2, Subseries 8: Original Political Cartoon Drawings.  Box 1, Folder 19 includes the cartoon “Putting the Clamps On!” by Bob Howie of the Jackson Daily News (undated) regarding Eastland and U.S. policy with regards to Cuba, China, and North Vietnam.
• Series 2, Subseries 9: Press Releases includes several 1978 Eastland press releases on the Panama Canal (Box 6, Folders 82, 83, 85, & 86).
• Series 2, Subseries 12: Published Writings holds a 1970 article by Eastland in the National Enquirer “Americans in Cuba Are Being Trained as Human Missiles to Destroy the United States” about the Venceremos Brigade.
• Series 3, Subseries 1:  Issue Correspondence.  Contains correspondence and other material organized by topic received from Mississippi constituents as well as interested organizations and individuals from around the nation and the world.  Includes “Foreign Policy” folders organized by year with frequent subtopics by country (Boxes 80 through 95) as well as “Foreign Trade” (Box 95).  Additional international topics may be found as subcategories under other terms.
• Series 3, Subseries 5:  Case Files.  Files of individuals seeking assistance on personal matters.  Examples will include visas for foreign travel, immigration approval for family and friends, and so forth.  Organized by name of individual with descriptive information on for the name of the department or government agency involved as well as time span of documents, thus enabling keyword searches for case files involving the State Department and other entities.  Note:  Due to privacy and confidentiality concerns, the archive restricts access to case files for 75 years after the last dated document in each file.
• Series 3, Subseries 6:  Immigration Case Files.  Arranged by name of immigration sponsor with descriptions including the name of potential immigrants (if available) and time span of documents in file. Note:  Due to privacy and confidentiality concerns, the archive restricts access to case files for 75 years after the last dated document in each file.
• Series 4, Subseries 1:  Bills includes files on legislation related to communism, displaced persons, foreign affairs, foreign intelligence, Guam, immigration, internal security, military, Olympic Games in Munich, Panama Canal, trade, war relief, and World War II.
• Series 4, Subseries 4:  Subject Files includes file categories on “Agriculture – Foreign Trade,” communism, foreign aid, and foreign policy (including by country).
• Series 4, Subseries 10:  Internal Security Subcommittee.  This subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee dealt with espionage, sabotage and subversive activities in the United States.  In addition to general committee administrative files, this subseries includes investigative files on subjects, organizations, and individuals, including the following: Chile (Box 16, Folder 1); communism – Latin America (Box 17, Folder 1), Cuba (Box 19 and Box 20), Fair Play for Cuba Committee (Box 20, Folder 20), Panama (Box 26, Folder 9), Puerto Rico (Box 26, Folder 19), and Virgin Islands (Box 30, Folder 12).  Note:  Senate Rules mandate that committee records are closed for 20 years and investigative records for 50 years.  Files indicate opening dates for material.
• Series 5, Subseries 11:  Internal Security Subcommittee Library.  A bibliographic list of books held by the subcommittee that includes Latin American topics.  Note:  not all books were retained by the library or the archives.
• Series 5, Subseries 14:  Territories and Insular Affairs Committee.  Eastland was a member of this committee for a brief period from 1945 to 1946.  Its jurisdiction covered the various territories of the United States (Alaska, Hawaii, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Samoa, and the Virgin Islands).  This subseries consists of one box with a small amount of correspondence and transcripts of two committee hearings:  one in 1945 on S. 1488 and another in 1946 on the nomination of William H. Hastie for appointment as governor of the Virgin Islands.
• Series 6:  Memorabilia.  Box 16, Folder 8 contains a membership certificate from “Club ‘Mexico’s Friends’” dated 5 May 1956.

James E. Edmonds Collection.  1886-1934. Box 1, Folders 19c, 20a, & 20b contain letters from Edmonds while a student at the University of Mississippi in March and April 1898 to his parents, which mention Cuba and his desire to work for a Cuban newspaper as a war correspondent.  Box 2, Folder 33a holds a letter dated July 1921 from Edmonds in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands to his mother.  Box 2, Folder 33b contains a letter dated October 1921 from Edmonds in Buenos Aires, Argentina to his mother.  3 boxes.

Faulkner Periodicals Collection.  1930-1997. Box 40 includes the Joseph Blotner article “William Faulkner, Roving Ambassador” in Exchange, International Educational and Cultural (Summer 1966).  Box 41 contains an article about William Faulkner in the Venezuela journal Imagen (October 1987) with “Sisifo en la URSS” by A.E.R.  Box 54, Folder 6 holds clippings about Faulkner’s visit to Venezuela in spring 1961.  Box 55, Folders 7 & 8 holds articles from foreign journals and newspapers.  56 boxes.

Faulkner Small Manuscripts.  1920-2005. Box 31, Folders 10 & 11 contain newspaper coverage of author William Faulkner’s 1961 visit to Venezuela in the El Carabobeno (Valencia) as well as a citation from Valencia awarded to Faulkner.  31 boxes.

Featherston Collection.  1824-1952. Winfield Scott Featherston represented his Mississippi district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1847 to 1850, rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, and remained active in Mississippi politics after the Civil War by serving in the Mississippi legislature and the 1890 state constitutional convention.  Box 1, Folder 54 contains an undated letter from L.Q.C. Lamar to Featherston which discusses filling an appointed mission to Mexico.  18 boxes.

Percy E. Foxworth Collection.  1925-1991. Mississippian Percy E. Foxworth joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1932.  After training, he worked in the field offices in Florida, Oklahoma, New York City, and Washington, DC.  From 1935 to 1939, he served as Administrative Assistant to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover before becoming Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division.  Foxworth died in the line of duty in January 1943 when his plane crashed in Surinam, Dutch Guiana.  Collection includes correspondence from his time in South America as well as material about his death.  4 boxes.

Percy E. Foxworth/Chambers/Roberts Collection.  1930s-1980s. Mississippian Percy E. Foxworth joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1932.  After training, he worked in the field offices in Florida, Oklahoma, New York City, and Washington, DC.  From 1935 to 1939, he served as Administrative Assistant to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover before becoming Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division.  Foxworth died in the line of duty in January 1943 when his plane crashed in Surinam, Dutch Guiana.    Correspondence dating from 1940 to 1942 indicates that he traveled extensively across Latin America with letters by him sent from Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Argentina.  9 boxes.

Graduating/Senior Theses Collection.  1858-1937. Theses by seniors and graduates of the University of Mississippi. Box 3, Folder 1 includes “The Great Canal of the World: Advantages which Prompt the Construction of the Nicaragua Canal Will Bring to the United States, and Especially the Southern Central States” by W.H. Percy (circa 1893-1897).  Box 4, Folders 3 & 4 hold six separate senior theses from 1900 on the benefits the United States would accrue with the construction of the Nicaragua Canal. Box 5, Folder 3 contains the 1904 senior theses “Is the Recognition of the Republic of Panama by the Government of the United States Justifiable?” and “The New Republic of Panama.”  8 boxes.

William Parks Grant Collection.  1930-1988. Grant was a music composition professor at the University of Mississippi from 1953 to 1973.  Box 37, Folder 2 contains 218 photographs of his 1955 Mexican vacation in Mexico City, Veracruz, Pueblo, and Oaxaca; Folder 4 holds 388 photographs from his Mexican vacation in 1957 in Tehuacan, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Morelia, Patzcuaro, and Queretaro.  Folder 7 has 100 photographs from his 1960 Mexican vacation in Celaya, Cuautla, Cuernavaca, Tampico, Mexico City, Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Veracruz, Tehuacan, and Oaxaca.  Box 38, Folder 9 contains postcards from Mexico.  Box 41, Folder 2 contains slides from Mexico.  The collection also includes correspondence and journals dated from the times of his Mexican vacations. 41 boxes. 

Bishop Duncan Montgomery Gray Jr. Collection. 1954-2000. Born in Canton, Mississippi, Duncan Montgomery Gray became an Episcopal minister and served in parishes across Mississippi before his election as Bishop of Mississippi (a position which he held from 1974 to 1993). Box 7 contains several folders related to Panama, including the following: correspondence and material related to James H. Ottley who served as Bishop of Panama from 1984-1995 and Bishop of El Salvador from 1985 to 1992; material documenting the relationship between the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi and Panama from 1974 to 1986; clippings related to Panama in 1990; correspondence and other items related to human rights and violence in Panama; and a National Council of Churches delegation visit to Panama in 1990.  21 boxes.

George William Healy Jr. Collection.  1921-1976. George William Healey Jr. was the long-time editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper and an active participant in the national political and cultural scene.  Oversized Box 2 contains a medal documenting President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Good Will Tour of Latin America in 1960 and coverage by WRUL-Worldwide Broadcasting. Collection Photographs Box 103, Folder 2 holds a newspaper photograph of Healey, Fidel Castro, and Rufo Lopez Presquet (Cuban Minister of the Treasury) on the occasion of Castro’s speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors on 17 April 1959.  8 boxes.  Note:  Collection Photographs Box 103 is held at an off-site facility. Researchers must request boxes at least two business days in advance of their intended visit.

Howry Family Collection.  1838-1981. Elizabeth Butler Howry was a trained vocalist, active in the social and civic sphere of Washington, DC.  She organized the first entertainment circuit for U.S. troops in World War I, and Eisenhower appointed her to the committee on the National Cultural Center. Box 3, Folder 31 contains a handwritten diary from December 1923 to September 1928 which includes Elizabeth Butler Howry’s travel to the Bahamas.  6 boxes.

Daniel Rupert Johnson Collection.  1913-1921. Box 1, Folder 45 contains a letter to Johnson dated 15 September 1918 from Phil Simmons in Corozal, Panama. 1 box.

Felton M. Johnston Collection.  1925-1972. Felton M. Johnston served as Secretary of the Senate from 1955 to 1964, the highest administrative post in the U.S. Congress. As Secretary of the Senate, he was involved in coordinating the visit of foreign leaders to the Capitol and to Joint Meetings of Congress.  It is possible that material related to Latin American leader visits will appear in Senate Administration folders in Boxes 5 & 6.  Box 15 contains a loose copy of Special Analysis:  The Panama Canal – Its Past and Future (Washington, DC:  American Enterprise Institute).  Box 27, Folder 1 includes a carbon copy of a typed memorandum dated 8 May 1939 regarding an overheard conversation on a Senate trolley car between Senator Borah and Senator Johnson about the president of Nicaragua.  From 1965 to 1969, Johnston served on the American Battlefield Monuments Commission (an independent agency of the US government which administers U.S. military cemeteries, memorials, and monuments outside the United States (countries involved include Panama, Mexico, and Cuba).  Files and other material related to the American Battlefield Monuments Commission are in Boxes 7 & 8 as well as a scrapbook in Box 16.  27 boxes.  Note:  This collection is stored at an off-site facility.  Researchers must request boxes at least two business days in advance of their intended visit.

Winthrop D. Jordan Collection.  1970-2007. Personal and professional papers of University of Mississippi professor history Winthrop D. Jordan who received acclaim for his works on slavery and race.  Box 5, Folder 7 contains Kathryn Burns’ “Gender and Politics of Mestizaje:  The Convent of Santa Clara in Cuzco, Peru” from the Hispanic-American Historical Review 7:1 (February 1998).

Katallagete/James Y. Holloway Collection.  1945-1992. Manuscripts and correspondence related to Katallagete, the journal of the liberal Committee of Southern Churchmen published from the 1960s to 1991 and edited by James Y. Hollloway.  Contributors to the journal included many important foreign theologians or Americans who visited other countries.  37 boxes.

• Box 1, Folder “Reuben A. Alves, Correspondence and Manuscripts” contains material related to the Brazilian theologian, educator, and writer who was one of the founders of Latin American liberation theology.
• Box 1, Folder “Daniel Berrigan, Correspondence Undated-1968” includes correspondence related the American Jesuit priest and activist’s “exile” to Latin America by the Catholic Church in 1965.
• Box 1, Folder “Jim Douglass, Correspondence and Manuscripts 1971-1974” includes a letter from this American Catholic theologian dated 5 October 1970 referencing a conference on Latin American liberation.
• Box 1, Folder “Anthony Towne, Correspondence, Articles, and Manuscripts” contains a letter dated 20 December 1965 which discusses Daniel Berrigan and an assignment to Latin America.

Bern and Frankie Keating Collection.  1940-1986. Bern Keating was a journalist and photographer whose work often appeared in national magazines.  He often collaborated with his photographer wife Franke Keating.  They lived in Greenville, Mississippi.  Box 5, Folders 1 through 3 contain images related to the 1958 opening of the Habana Hilton in Havana, Cuba and Conrad Hilton.  Box 7, Folders 25 through 26 contain drafts of articles and images for “Adios, Machetes!” for International Harvester with images of farming and ranching in Mexico as well as the Keating family in Mexico.  Box 7, Folder 7 contains images of Venezuela.  Box 13, Folders 10 & 11 contain manuscript drafts and an article on the Virgin Islands.  32 boxes.  Note:  This collection is stored at an off-site facility in Cold Storage.  Researchers must request boxes at least two business days in advance of their intended visit to acclimate material to room temperature and arrange their transfer to Special Collections.

Kelley Family Collection.  1839-1987. This set of Mississippi family papers includes a letter dated 13 December 1939 from a pen pal named “Richard” in Passo Fundo, Brazil, to “Bobby” (Box 2, Folder 11).  15 boxes.

Ed King Collection.  1939-1983. A liberal Methodist clergyman in Mississippi, Ed King was a key leader in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party during the civil rights movement.  Box 1, Folder 15 includes “The Argument of Latin America” by Carlos Fuentes, published by the Southern Student Organizing Committee (undated). 10 boxes.

Dantzler Lumber Company Collection.  1850-1954. The L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company started in the Moss Point and Gulfport, Mississippi area in 1880.  By the early twentieth century, the company predicted the end of virgin timber in Mississippi and bought a timber concession in Nicaragua, but political instability prevented development of the property.  Correspondence, financial, legal, and administrative records of the Louisiana-Nicaragua Lumber Company document the 1905 timber concession of 9,000 square miles in Nicaragua and Honduras (Box 59 and Oversized Box 1).  In 1924, L.N. Dantzler and his son organized the Dantzler Lumber and Export Company in Tampa, Florida which shipped lumber to South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa.  60 boxes and 335 ledgers.  Note:  This collection is stored at an off-site facility.  Researchers must request boxes at least two business days in advance of their intended visit.

L.Q.C. Lamar Collection.  Circa 1860-1885.  L.Q.C. Lamar represented his Mississippi district in the U.S.  House of Representatives from 1857 to 1860; served in the Mississippi Secession Convention and drafted the state’s Ordinance of Secession.  During the Civil War, he served in the military until appointment as Confederate minister to Russia and special envoy to England and France.  After the war, he practiced law at the University of Mississippi and returned to the U.S. House in 1873, moving to the U.S. Senate in 1877.  He later served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior and on the U.S. Supreme Court. Box 1, Folder 23 holds a photocopy of a letter from Lamar dated 30 March 1877 which includes, among many topics, mention of Mexico and Cuba.  1 box.

W.T. Marshall Collection.  1833-1985. William Thomas Marshall was the White House librarian and file keeper for presidents William McKinley through Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1899 through his retirement in 1938.  His collection includes a random assortment of documents and publications he picked up through these duties.  His daughter, Violet Marshall Douglas was married to an oil geologist who spent years in Venezuela, and material related to this subject is scattered throughout the collection (see John Douglas Collection for additional material).  10 boxes.

• Box 1, Folder 5 holds an invitation to an 1898 White House dinner in honor of the President of Costa Rica. 
• Box 1, Folder 67 contain his son-in-law John Douglas’s letters from a wildcat oil well in Venezuela from 1924 to 1925.  Box 6, Folder 8 contains Report on the Founding and Development of the Joint Company School System in the Maracaibo Lake Basin, 1934-1948; The S.A. Escuela Bella Vista, 1948-1951 by Violet Douglas, re:  Venezuela.  Box 6, Folder 7 contains My Trip Abroad Vol. 2 South America by Violet Marshall dated 1938.  Box 3, Folder 1 holds Some Miocene Mollusks from Northwestern Venezuela by John Gray Douglas (1928).  10 boxes.
• Box 6, Folder 11 contains a collection of correspondence from “Bernice and Glen Lee” to “Family and Friends” recounting a trip to South America from September 1948 to August 1949.
• Box 2, Folder 7 holds Panama-Pacific International Exposition 1915. 
• Box 2, Folder 10 contains Transportation on the Amazon and Madeira Rivers with the Disastrous American Railroad Expedition of 1878 by Robert Hopewell Hepburn (circa 1918).  Box 2, Folder 13 holds Our Purposes in Mexico (undated). 
• Box 6, Folder 4 contains “Venezuelan Vignettes” by James L. Frisbie from 1940.  Box 6, Folder 5 holds El Circulo Anaranjado clippings from June 1948 to April 1955. 

James Meredith Collection.  1950-1997. James Meredith integrated the University of Mississippi in 1962.  Box 3, Folder “Correspondence – Positive, 1962” includes a letter to Meredith dated 3 October 1962 from “Students of Preparatoria Nocturna” in Mexico City, Mexico written in support of Meredith’s enrollment at the University of Mississippi and a similar letter from Dr. C. Dulgr in Tamaulipas, Mexico.  Box 4, Folder “Correspondence – Positive, 1962” includes a letter to Meredith from Layle Lane in Mexico City, Mexico also expressing support.  Box 5, Folder “Correspondence – Positive, 1962” includes a letter to Meredith from Laura Herrero de Pancela of Mexico City, Mexico expressing support.  Box 49, Folder “General Correspondence 1981” contains a letter from Nadia Miles to Meredith dated 30 July 1981 regarding Meredith’s request for information on the U.S. Virgin Islands with attached copies of several articles about Carnival.  Box 145, Folder “Publications 1979” includes United States Virgin Islands Economic Review (Office of Planning and Research, 1979) and Folder “Publications 1980” includes The Virgin Islands Daily News (1 August 1980).  146 boxes.

William M. “Fishbait” Miller Collection.  1935-1975. William M. “Fishbait” Miller served as the Doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1953 and from 1955 to 1974.  In this administrative post, he participated in the planning and ceremonies related to VIP visit of foreign leaders to the Capitol including addresses to Joint Meetings of Congress.  141 boxes.  Note:  This collection is stored at an off-site facility.  Researchers must request boxes at least two business days in advance of their intended visit.

• Series 1: U.S. House of Representatives Administration, Boxes 10 through 12 includes files related to the following Joint Meetings: 1949 visit of Eurico Gaspar Dutra (President of Brazil), the 1951 visit of Galo Plaza (President of Ecuador), the 1955 visit Paul E. Magloire (President of Haiti), the 1956 visit of Juscelno Kubitschek de Oliveira (President of Brazil) -- which did not occur, the 1958 visit of Carlos Ibanex del Campo (President of Chile), the 1959 visit of Arturo Frondizi (President of Argentina), the 1959 visit of Jose Maria Lemus (President of El Salvador), the 1960 visit of Alberto Lieras Camargo (President of Colombia), the 1961 visit of Don Manuel Prado (President of Peru), the 1962 visit of Joao Goulart (President of Brazil), the 1967 visit of Gustavo Diaz Ordaz (President of Mexico), the 1970 visit of Dr. Rafael Caldera (President of Venezuela), and the 1972 visit of Luis Echeverra (President of Mexico). Series 1, Box 20, Folder 7 contains material related to the 1948 congressional program on the 50^th anniversary of the liberation of Cuba.  Series 1, Boxes 22 & 23 possess files related to VIP visits to the Capitol which did not involve a Joint Meeting:  a 1963 visit of Dr. Victor Paz Estenssoro (President of Bolivia), the 1967 visit of Arthur da Costa e Silva (President-Elect of Brazil), and the 1968 visit of Jose Joaquin Trejos Fernandez (President of Costa Rica).
• Series 7:  Clippings, Box 3 contains Folder 3 “Issues – Foreign Affairs.”
• Series 17:  Policy Issues, Box 1, Folder 19 “Foreign Affairs.”
• Series 20:  Photographs, Box 2 contains images of the following Joint Meetings:  Galo Plaza (President of Ecuador) in 1951, Arturo Frondzi (President of Argentina) in 1959), Albert Lleras Camargo (President of Columbia) in 1960, Eamon de Valera (President of Mexico) in 1964, Rafael Caldera (President of Venezuela) in 1970, Luis Echeverria (President of Mexico) in 1972.  Box 6 contain photographs of the following Joint Meeting:  Eurico Gasdar Dutra (Presient of Brazil) in 1949.

Franklin E. Moak Collection.  1943-1997. Dr. Franklin E. Moak served as Dean of the Division of Student Personnel at the University of Mississippi from 1964 to 1981, while also teaching higher education courses.  Box 78, Folders 11 through 13 and Box 79, Folders 1 through 4 contain newspaper clippings, correspondence, brochures, notes, and Moak’s diary from the Rotary Club Study Exchange Colombia program at Universidad Industrial de Santander in Bucaramanga, Colombia 1967-1968.  Box 32, Folder 12 contains Universidad Industrial de Santander Departmento de Planeacion Proyecto de Inversiones and Resiencias Estudiantiles handbooks from Bucaramanga-Colombia (circa 1972).  87 boxes.

Mamie and Ellis Nassour Arts and Entertainment Collection.  1920-2013. This collection of theatre and film memorabilia donated by University of Mississippi alumnus Ellis Nassour, includes several press books for productions staged in Brazil including the following in Box 16:  Chicago-O Musical from Sao Paulo in April 2004; Lado a Lado Sondheim – “Side to Side with Sondheim” Musical Works of Stephen Sondheim; Sete O Musical; and Sweet Charity with Claudia Raia. Box 57, Folder 5 “Programs, Exhibit Catalogs, Miscellaneous Printed Materials” includes NewVicBill:  Brazil! Brazil!  Box 57, Folder 6 contains a tourist map of Argentina.  58 boxes.

James D. Nunnally Collection.  1976-1982. James D. Nunnally was a freelance journalist from Mississippi who wrote primarily about politics and outdoor activities such as hunting.  Box 7, Folder 8 contains assorted letters and his article “White Wing Shooting in Mexico.”  7 boxes.

ODK Collection.  1952-1964. Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) in a national leadership honor society.  This collection is related to the University of Mississippi chapter.  Box 3, Folder 25 contains an ODK Forum poster for “The United States, Cuba and Latin America.” 

Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  1915-2012. Correspondence, newspapers, publications, and political memorabilia related to Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr.  Born in Natchez, Mississippi in 1904, he joined his family in Cuba after completing high school (they had moved there in 1922).  Ogden & Company was a merchandise brokerage firm specializing in food products from various countries, including Holland, Denmark, Norway, and Spain.  In 1960, a year after the Cuban Revolution, Ogden and his family moved back to Natchez where he restarted the family business.  A significant amount of the collection focuses on Cuban and American politics with a special emphasis on the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath.  21 boxes.  Note:  This collection is stored at an off-site facility.  Researchers must request boxes at least two business days in advance of their intended visit.

• Box 3 and Box 4, Folders 1 through 17 contain files “Cuba/Communism” that date from 1940 to 2008.  Box 4, Folder 2 dated October-December 1968 specifically contains material related to the “Nixon-Agnew Cuban-American Relations Committee.”
• Box 11, Folders 19 through 22 contain Spanish-language correspondence from 1934 to 1982; Folders 25 & 26 contain Cuban Information Service documents from 1961-1963.
• Box 12, Folder 12 holds the English-language newsletter Información Católica Cubana.  Folders 13 & 14 contain Latin American Events and Latin American Report.
• Box 13 contains numerous newsletters and pamphlets related to Cuba and Latin America as well as “Report of the Special Study Mission to the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Brazil, and Paraguay” (1967).
• Box 14, Folders 6 through 12 contains photocopied newspaper articles on Cuba.
• Further information on Cuba could be ascertained by exploring more general files throughout the collection.
• A large number of publications on Cuba and Latin America were separated from this collection.  See the “Non-Fiction Publications” and “Fiction” sections below for these volumes which are all noted as “From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.”

Sterling Plumpp Collection.  1961-1986. An African American born in Clinton, Mississippi in 1940, Sterling Plumpp moved to Chicago where he became a noted blues poet and actively participated in a global community of black authors and poets.  Box 5, Folder 54 contains a review of Racial Democracy in Brazil by Abdias Do Nascimento.  12 boxes.  See the “Non-Fiction Publications” and “Fiction” sections below for several volumes related to Latin America from the Sterling Plumpp Collection.

John Rankin Collection.  1900-1953. A Mississippi Democrat, John Rankin served in the U.S. Representatives from 1921 to 1953.  He was a member of the House Territories Committee from 1921 to 1939.  342 boxes.  Note:  This collection is stored at an off-site facility.  Researchers must request boxes (Series # and Box #) at least two business days in advance of their intended visit.

• Series 1 (Subject Files), Box 20, Folders 11 through 14 contain files on the Committee on Territories from 1921 to 1937. 
• Series 1, Box 42 includes “Department of State” folders from 1921 to 1952. 
• Series 1, Boxes 48 through 54 contain “Foreign Affairs” files from 1920 through 1952.  Boxes 54 through 56 contain “Foreign Affairs – [name of country] – [year].”  Latin American countries include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the Virgin Islands. Check collection finding aid for specific box numbers.

• Series 1, Box 61 includes “Immigration” files from 1920 through 1952.
• Series 1, Box 83 contains “Panama Canal” files from 1925 through 1951.
• Series 1, Box 111 holds “Tariffs” files from 1920 to 1950.”
• Series 4 (Public Relations), Box 5, Folder 3 contains “Speeches 1927 – War with Mexico and Nicaragua.”
• Series 5 (Employment and School Recommendations) consists of material related to individuals seeking government employment.  Box 16 contains files related to “Panama Canal” from 1921 through 1948.  Box 19 contains “State Department” files from 1922 through 1952 which may include correspondence regarding embassies and consulates in Latin American countries.  Boxes 24 through 25 include “U.S. Territories and Foreign Countries” files from 1922 through 1948.
• Series 6 (Case Files) contain documents related to constituents and other individuals seeking the assistance of the member of Congress in negotiating a benefit, ruling, or reimbursement for private gain.  Files are organized by the government department or agency involved and then by year.  Box 7 contains “Immigration and Naturalization” files from 1923 to 1952.  Box 31 holds “Panama Canal” from 1930 to 1949 as well as “Passports” from 1921 to 1952.  Box 35 possesses “State Department” files from 1921 to 1952.

Sarah Isom Center Collection.  1921-2007. Established at the University of Mississippi in 1981, the Sarah Isom Center for Women includes organizations records as well as older, donated files regarding the role of women in society.  Box 91 “United Nations:  International Women’s Year – Mexico 1975.”  107 boxes.

John C. Satterfield/American Bar Association Collection.  1928-1974. The collection contains the files related to John C. Satterfield’s active involvement in the American Bar Association (ABA), which he presided over from 1961-1962.  The collection includes information about Cuban lawyers in exile and the ABA.  51 boxes.  Note:  This collection is stored at an off-site facility.  Researchers must request boxes at least two business days in advance of their intended visit.

• Box 22, Folder 100-30(1) contains material related to an international law conference in Costa Rica in June 1961 with correspondence, data, and Satterfield’s speech.  
• Box 10, Folder 200.1-115 “From 1 October 1961 to Current – Cuban Lawyers and Judges in Exile” and Folder 200.1-115 “Prior to 1 October 1961 – Cuban Lawyers and Judges in Exile.”  Box 32, Folder 200.247 “First De-Communization World Congress (Cuban Lawyers in Exile).”  Box 33, Folder 201a includes a typed letter dated 30 October 1962 from David Lawrence to Satterfield which discusses Cuba; a typed letter dated 1 October 1962 from R.C. Garland to Satterfield which discusses (among other subjects) Cuba; a typed letter dated 29 September 1962 from Jack Pinkston to John R. Kennedy referencing Cuba; a typed letter dated 30 September 1962 from Rufus Webb to “Letters to the Editor” of The Jefferson mentioning the Cuban Missile Crisis.  Box 34, folder 201.12 contains a typed letter dated 2 January 1963 from C. Clyde Atkins, Chairman of the Association Special Committee to Cooperate with Cuban Lawyers in Exile, to Satterfield regarding the employment of Cuban lawyers in exile.  Box 36, Folder 300.11a includes a handwritten letter dated 11 March 1963 from Jose Portuondo y de Castro at Maine Maritime Academy to Satterfield about Cuban lawyers in exile and special American Bar Association committee, includes booklet The Judiciary under a Dictatorship:  Reprint of Speech by Jose Portuondo y de Castro to the New York State Bar Association on January 26, 1962. 

Small Manuscripts 1978.  Box 5, Folder 8 includes material related to J.W. Clapp, who resided in Holly Springs, Mississippi before the Civil War and afterwards moved to Memphis, Tennessee. Clapp served as a Representative of Marshall County in the 1855 Mississippi legislature; a delegate to the 1861 Mississippi Secession Convention; and as a Representative of the 1st Congressional District of Mississippi in the first Confederate Congress. This small collection consists of a handwritten volume containing accounts of Clapp's travels between 1834 through 1892 and includes travel in Cuba.

Small Manuscripts 1994.  Box 1, Folder 20 holds 1970 correspondence between Walter P. Lewisohn and R. Philip Hanes seeking the assistance of Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina in founding a craft school in the Virgin Islands.

Small Manuscripts 1995.  Oversized Box 7, Folder 2 contains various drawings of historic military uniforms produced by Southern Comfort Corp., including “The 113^th and 114^th Polish Demi-Brigades in Santo Domingo, 1803” [Haitian War of Independence].

Small Manuscripts 2000.  Box 1, Folder 8 contains subscription information for the Alecto Historical Editions facsimile printing of Mark Catesby’s The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahamas (originally published between 1729 and 1747).  Folder 9 holds Jamaica Series Booklet printed by the Mill Press announcing a Three Volume Historical Tribute to the Island of Jamaica, Volume I: “A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica” by James Hakewell, 1825.  Volume II: “Sketches of Character” by Isaac Mendes Belisario, 1837. Volume III: “Daguerian Excursions in Jamaica” by Adolphe Duperly, 1844.

Special Collections Map Case Drawer 5.  Includes a broadside “List of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, Musicians, Privates, of the First Regiment Mississippi Rifleman, in the War with Mexico, to Serve Twelve Months, Date of Enlistment, June 1846” (Jackson, Mississippi:  William W. Yerby, [1846]).

Alfred H. Stone Collection.  1786-1956. Collection consists of material collected by Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi regarding issues of race and slavery from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century.  He was the author several works on the topic. Box 2 includes a reprint of Theodore Roosevelt’s “Brazil and the Negro” from Outlook (21 February 1914).  4 boxes.

David Todd Collection.  1863-1938. Box 1, Folder 1 contains clippings dated 1896-1931 including one or more on Mexican ruins.  Oversized Box 3, Folder 6 contains clippings dated from 1881 to 1937 including articles on Mexico.  3 boxes.

University of Mississippi Small Manuscripts.  Box 47, Folder 32 includes material on semester study in Costa Rica in Spring 1996.

E.C. Walthall Collection.  1834-1924. Box 1, Folder 75 contains a photocopy of a handwritten letter dated 22 December 1846 from E. Green in Monterey, Mexico to Kate Walthall which discusses the death of comrades, war, marriage, and a comparison of camp versus the Walthall parlor.  1 box.

Weston Lumber Company Collection. 1841-1956. A small sawmill operation in Logtown, Mississippi became incorporated as the H. Weston Lumber Company in 1889.  Most of Weston’s lumber during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century seems to have been sold to buyers in South America.  Subsidiary companies included the Louisiana-Mexican Timber and Investment Company (Boxes 84, 85, & 86) and the J.H. Weston Timber Company (Box 88 formed to exploit the company’s timber holdings in Mexico.  Collection contains correspondence, account ledgers, financial records, legal and administrative records, deeds, and contracts.  Early letters to the agents of the Louisiana-Mexican Timber and Investment Company are usually in the A series of letterbooks (Series 13).  Letters from company agents in Mexico frequently describe conditions in that area.  116 boxes.  Note:  This collection is stored at an off-site facility.  Researchers must request boxes and ledgers at least four business days in advance of their intended visit to Special Collections.

William M. Whittington.  1897-1962. A Mississippi Democrat, William M. Whittington served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1925 to 1951.  Box 174 includes a folder on the Panama Canal circa 1944. 316 boxes.  Note:  This collection is stored at an off-site facility.  Researchers must request boxes and ledgers at least four business days in advance of their intended visit to Special Collections.

John Sharp Williams Collection.  1862-1943. A Mississippi Democrat, John Sharp Williams served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1893 to 1909 and in the U.S. Senate from 1911 to 1923.  His fellow Mississippi Democrat, James K. Vardaman served in the U.S. Senate from 1913 to 1919.  This collection consists of research material amassed by biographer George Coleman Osborn for his biographies John Sharp Williams:  Planter-Statesman of the Deep South (1943) and James Kimble Vardaman:  Southern Commoner (1981).  The collection consists primarily of transcript copies of Williams and Vardaman correspondence located elsewhere, typed excerpts of the Congressional Record and other newspapers, and a small amount of original material.  Box 2, Folder 19 includes Williams correspondence with General Clarence R. Edwards in the Panama Canal Zone.  Box 2, Folder 23 includes Williams correspondence with Garrard Harris, U.S. Consul in Havana, Cuba.  Box 3, Folder 7 contains Williams correspondence with “El Senor Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores in Caracas, Venezuela.  Box 3, Folder 11 has Williams correspondence with William B. Pierce in the Panama Canal Zone.  Box 5, Folder 5 includes a transcript of the Congressional Record dated 11 June 1914 on Panama Canal tolls.  Box 5, Folder 6 includes a transcript of the Congressional Record dated 1 March 1917 on the authenticity of the Zimmerman note (Mexico and Germany).  Box 5, Folder 11 holds a transcript of a Congressional Record dated 18 April 1921 on a treaty with Colombia.  11 boxes.  Note:  This collection is stored at an off-site facility.  Researchers must request boxes and ledgers at least four business days in advance of their intended visit to Special Collections.

Curtis Wilkie Collection.  1963-1998.  A University of Mississippi alumnus, Curtis Wilkie had a distinguished career as a journalist at the Clarksdale Press Register (in Mississippi) covering the Civil Rights movement and the Boston Globe (from 1975 to 2000) before he became a University of Mississippi Journalism professor and author or several noteworthy books.  Box 4, Folder 11 includes Wilkie’s Boston Globe research file on the Cuban Missile Crisis (circa 1993-1994).  29 boxes.  Note:  This collection is stored at an off-site facility.  Researchers must request boxes and ledgers at least four business days in advance of their intended visit to Special Collections.

Paul L. Adams.  La cocina sencilla = Simple Cuban Cooking (Louisville, KY:  Butler Books, 1998).  From the Southern Foodways Collection.  Call Number:  TX716 C8 A33 1998.

Jorge Aguayo.  El extraño caso de la Historia física, política y natural de la Isla de Cuba (Havana, Cuba:  Imp. “El Siglo XX,” 1946).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  QH109 C9 S35 1946.

Ferdinand Anders.  Codex Peresianus:  <Codex Paris> Biblioteque nationale Paris (Graz, Austria:  Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1968).  Facsimile reproduction and introduction for a pre-Columbian Mayan codex (also known as the Paris Codex or Codex Pérez) dating to Postclassic Period of Mesoamerican chronology (c.900-1521 AD) and held by the Bibliotèque Nationale de France.   Call Number:  F14335 C66.

Anglo-American Caribbean Commission.  The Caribbean Islands and the War:  A Record of Progress in Facing Stern Realities (Washington, DC:  Government Printing Office, 1943).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  F2171 A5 1943.

Anti-Communist Liberation Movement of Venezuela.  Proof of the Communist Domination of Venezuela (Caracas, Venezuela:  1959).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F2326 A73 1959.

John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of Argyll.  A Trip to the Tropics and Home through America (London:  Hurst and Blacklett, 1867).  Travels included Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba with extensive notes. From the Sterling Plumpp Collection.  Call Number:  F1611 L87.

Manuel F. Artime.  Text of an Address Given by Manuel Artime Buesa before the Association for the Reconstruction of the Cuban Economy (AREC) (Miami, FL:  Revolutionary Recovery Movement, 1964).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  F1788.2 A7513 1964.

William Attaway.  Calypso Song Book (New York:  McGraw-Hill, 1957).  Introduction with musical scores of popular calypso songs from Trinidad and Tobago.  From the Kenneth S. Goldstein Collection.  Call Number:  M16811 T7 A8.

Karl Baedeker (Firm).  The United States, with an Excursion into Mexico:  Handbook for Travellers (Leipzig, Germany:  K. Baedeker, 1904).  Third revised edition.  Guidebook.  Call Number:  E158 B17.

Ballet Nacional de Cuba (New York:  Metropolitan Opera, 1979).  Souvenir program.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  GV1786 B357 B35 1979 (OVRS).

Joseph Banco.  Honor First:  The Story of the United States Border Patrol, Volume Two, 1949-1974 (2021).  Includes section on Cuba during the Cold War.  Signed by author.  Call Number:  HV8138 B23 2021.

Thomas Barbour.  A Naturalist in Cuba (Boston:  Little, Brown, 1945).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  QL229 C9 B3 1945.

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar.  Dos fechas (aniversarios y testimonies).  Vol. 1 (Mexico:  Ediciones Botas, 1973).  President of Cuba 1940-1948 and 1952-1958.  Inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. Carter Ogden by Elisa Aleida Batista, the daughter of Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 B33 D7 1973.

Carleton Beals, Bryce Oliver, Herschel Brickell, and Samuel Guy Inman.  What the South Americans Think of Us, A Symposium (New York:  R.M. McBride & Company, 1945).  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  F1418 B37.

William Beebe.  Beneath Tropic Seas:  A Record of Diving among the Coral Reefs of Haiti (New York:  G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1928).  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  QL128 B4 1928b.

Harry Belafonte.  Calypso (Camden, NJ:  RCA Victor, 1956).  LP record album.  Popular calypso music from Trinidad and Tobago.  From the B.B. King Collection.  Call Number:  BB King 0492.

George Hanneman Bennett.  An Illustrated History of British Guiana, Compiled from Various Authorities (Georgetown, British Guyana:  Richardson and Co., 1866).  Handwritten annotation on the title page: “The Honorable Chas. R.A. Williams Capt. & Lt. Col. Commdg ye Troops Brit. Guiana, Demerary, BG January 1867.”  With bookplate of Charles A. Williams.  Mounted original photographs accompanies the text.  Call Number:  F2368 B47.

Paul D. Bethel.  The Losers:  The Definitive Report, by an Eyewitness, of the Communist Conquest of Cuba and the Soviet Penetration in Latin America (New Rochelle, NY:  Arlington House, 1969).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 B46 1969.

Biblioteca apostolica vaticana.  MSS (Lat. 3773).  Codex vaticanus 3773:  <Codex vaticanus B.> (Graz, Austria:  Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1972).  Facsimile reproduction with introduction of a pre-Columbian Middle America pictorial manuscript likely from the Puebla part of the Mixtec region of Mexico dating from the sixteenth century and held by the Vatican Library.  Call Number:  F1219 V35 1972.

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.  Manuscript.  Codex Magliabechiano, CL.  XIII. 3 (B. R. 232) (Graz, Austria:  Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1970).  Facsimile reproduction and introduction (in German language) of Aztec codex created in the mid-sixteenth century held in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence, Italy.  Call Number:  F1219 C686.

Bodleian Library.  MSS (Laud Misc. 678).  Codex Mexicanus caractere hieroglyphi (Graz, Austria:  Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1966).  Facsimile reproduction and introductory pamphlet for a sixteenth century Mesoamerican codex from central Mexico (also known as Codex Laud) held by the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England.  Call Number:  F1219 O92.

Bohemia (Caracas, Venzuela:  Prensa Libre Venezolana).  Special Collections has 20 June 1965 issue with Cuban cover story.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  AP63 B72.

Taylor Branch.  The Clinton Tapes:  Wrestling History with the President (New York:  Simon and Schuster, 2009).  Includes chapter “Haiti:  The Brink of War.”  From the Jay L. Wiener Collection.  Call Number:  E886 B73 2009.

British Library.  Manuscript.  Codex Egerton 2895:  British Museum London (Graz, Austria:  Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1965).  Facsimile reproduction and accompanying descriptive text of a Miztec document from 16^th century Mexico in the possession of the British Museum (also known at times as the Codex Waecker Götter, Codex Sánchez Solís, or Codice Zapoteco).  Call Number:  F1219 B86.

Jimmy Buffet.  A Pirate Looks at Fifty (New York:  Random House, 1998).  Musician Jimmy Buffet travel through the southern  hemisphere to celebrate his fiftieth birthday; sections include Cuba, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Columbia, and the Amazon.  Call Number:  ML420 B874 A3 1998b.

C.A. Burland.  Codex Fejervary-Mayer:  M 12014 City of Liverpool Museums (Graz, Austria:  Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1971).  Facsimile reproduction and accompanying introduction of an Aztec codex from central Mexico in the possession of the Liverpool Museums.  Call Number:  F1219 C66 1971.

G.T. Bustin.  My First Fifty Years (Intercession City, FL:  G.T. Bustin, 195-).  Annotation by original book owner regarding the author dated 1967.  Author was born in Scott County, Mississippi and became the founder and administrator of East and West Indies Mission with missionary and medical work in Bahama Islands, Haiti, and New Guinea.  Call Number:  BV3705 B87 1950.

Theodore Canot.  Adventures of an African Slaver:  Being a True Account of the Life of Captain Theodore Canot, Trader in Gold, Ivory, & Slaves on the Coast of Guinea:  His Own Story as Told in the Year 1854 to Brantz Mayer & Now Edited with an Introduction by Malcolm Cowley (New York:  A & C. Boni, 1928).  Canot (1804-1860) was one of the most important slave traders active between Cuba and the coasts of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.  First edition published in 1854 under the title Captain Canot.  Call Number:  HT1322 C58 1928.

Henry Charles Carey and Isaac Lea.  A Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas, Being a Guide to the History of North and South America, and the West Indies:  Exhibiting an Accurate Account of the Discovery, Settlement, and Progress of Their Various Kingdoms, States, Provinces, &c.  Together with the Wars, Celebrated Battles, and Remarkable Events, to the Year 1826, According to the Plan of Le Sage’s Atlas, and Intended as a Companion to Lavoisne’s Improvement of that Celebrated Work (Philadelphia, PA:  H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1827).  Third revised edition.  Call Number:  G1105 C8 1827 (OVRS).

Caribbean Anti-Communist Research & Intelligence Bureau.  Carib:  Report (Cuidad Trujillo, Dominican Republic).  Special Collections has report numbers 45 (February 1960) and 46 (February 1960).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  E11 C3.

Henry Rose Carter.  Yellow Fever:  An Epidemiological and Historical Study of Its Place of Origin (Baltimore:  William & Wilkins Co., 1931).  Includes sections on Mexico, the Yucatan, Haiti, Panama, and Guadeloupe.  From the D.J. Canale Collection.  Call Number:  RC207 C378 1931.

Hodding Carter.  Doomed Road of Empire:  The Spanish Trail of Conquest (New York:  McGraw-Hill, 1963).  Historical examination of the Royal Road proper from Saltillo and Moncolova, New Spain (Mexico) across the Rio Grande towards Natchitoches, Louisiana.  Mississippi author.  Call Number:  F389 C25.

Fidel Castro.  Cartas del presidio:  anticipo de una biografía de Fidel Castro (Havana, Cuba:  Editorial Lex, 1959).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 C275 1959.

Fidel Castro.  “History Will Absolve Me..”:  Dr. Fidel Castro Appearing before the Emergency Court of Santiago de Cuba, Oct. 16, 1953 (Havana, Cuba:  1959).  English translation.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 C27753 1959.

Martha de Castro.  Arte cubano colonial : resumen de un curso ofrecido en la Universidad de la Habana, curso de verano, julio-agosto de 1944 (Havana, Cuba:  1950).  Cuban art.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  N6603 C3 1950.

Mark Catesby.  The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands:  Containing the Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects, and Plants:  Particularly, Those Not Hitherto Described, or Incorrectly Figured by Former Authors, with Their Descriptions in English and French:  To Which Is Prefixed, a New and Correct Map of the Countries, with Observation on Their Natural State, Inhabitants, and Productions (London:  Benjamin White, 1771).  Two volumes.  Originally published in 1731-1743.  Call Number:  QH41 C28 1771.

Mark Catesby.  The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands:  Containing Two Hundred and Twenty Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects, and Plants (Savanna, GA:  Beehive Press, 1974).  Reproduced from the third edition at the Boston Athenaeum.  Limited to 500 box sets.  Call Number:  QH41 C28 1974 (OVRS).

Samuel E. Chamberlain.  My Confessions:  The Recollections of a Rogue (Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 1987).  Narrative of a cavalryman in the Mexican War written in 1855-1861.  From the Larry Brown Collection.  Call Number:  E411 C45 1987.

Joseph E. Chance.  Jefferson Davis’s Mexican War Regiment (Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1991).  Call Number:  E409.5 M56 C47 1991.

Chicago Motor Club.  Where to Stop, What to See, What to Do:  Motorists’ Handbook of Southeastern States (Washington, DC:  American Automobile Association, 1937).  Includes sections on Bahama Islands, Barbados, Bermuda, Cuba, Dutch West Indies, French West Indies, Haiti and Santo Domingo, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Virgin Islands, and Windward Islands.  From the James Wilford Garner Collection.  Call Number:  F207.3 C55 1937.

Chile.  Congreso Nacional.  Cámara de Diputados.  Reglamento de la Cámara de Diputados y constitución politica de la República de Chile (Santiago, Chile:  Universo, 1949).  Inscribed by the Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies on 3 November 1955 for U.S. Representative Thomas G. Abernethy.  From the Thomas G. Abernethy Collection.  Call Number:  JL2664 A3 1949.

Francesco Saverio Clavigero.  History of Mexico:  With Critical Dissertations on the Land, the Animals, & Inhabitants of Mexico (London:  J. Johnson, 1807).  Second edition.  Special Collections only has volume 2.  Call Number:  F1219 C622.

Regina Cordova with Emma Carrasco.  Celebración:  Recipes and Traditions Celebrating Latino Family Life (New York:  Doubleday, 1996).  Cookbook recipes and social traditions of Latin America.  From the Southern Foodways Alliance Collection.  Call Number:  TX716 A1 C68 1996.

Corporación Nacional del Turismo (Cuba).  La pintura colonial en Cuba : exposición en el capitolio nacional, marzo 4 a abril 4 de 1950 (Havana, Cuba:  1950).  Painting exhibition.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  ND303 C67 1950.

Country Club de la Habana.  Programa del show del Baile de Carnaval de el Country Club de la Habana Sabado 20 de Febrero de 1954 (Havana, Cuba:  P. Fernandez y Cia, 1954).  Theatre program.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  PN2401 P76 1954.

B.C. Cox.  Gulfport, Mississippi:  The Gateway to Panama (Gulfport, MS:  [1909]).  Call Number:  F349 G9 C8.

John Houston Craige.  Cannibal Cousins (New York:  Minton, Balch & Company, 1934).  History of foreign relations between the United States and Haiti.  Call Number:  F1926 C834.

William H. Crawford.  Fiesta in Mexico:  Time Is a Holiday (New York:  Oxford University Press, 1951).  Printed Christmas greeting by Oxford University Press for 1951 with enclosed card; one of 350 copies.  Call Number:  GT4814 A2 C7.

Mary Caldwell Crosby.  The American Plague:  The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (New York:  Berkley Books, 2006).  Includes a section on “Cuba, 1900.”  One copy in Special Collections inscribed to Curtis Wilkie by author.  From the Curtis Wilkie Collection.  Call Number:  RC211 T3 C76 2006.

Cruzada Femenina Cubana.  Alerta America:  Cuba es solo el principio (196-).  Communism in Cuba.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  HX158.5 A44 1960z.

Cuba and the Cuba Railroad, 1914-15 (Camaguey, Cuba:  Cuba Railroad, 1914).  Timetables and descriptions of railway.  From the Roane Fleming Byrnes Collection.  Call Number:  HE2399 C83 1914.

Cuba. Centro de Cria Caballar.  El dique : boletin informativo del Centro de Cria Caballar. año 2, no. 2 (Havana, Cuba:  Imp. Maza. Caso y Cia, 1945).  Horse breeding in Cuba.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  SF290 C9 D47 1945.

Cuba.  Comisión de Fomento Nacional.  Obras tipica de foment (tres anos de labor) (Havana, Cuba:  [1958]).  Public works in Cuba.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  HD4058 C8 1958.

Cuba.  Dirección Nacional de Divulgación.  Cuban Sunshine News (Havana, Cuba:  1974).  Tourism.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  G155 C9 C837 1974.

Cuba:  Facts and Figures (Havana, Cuba:  American Chamber of Commerce of Cuba, 1957).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  HC152.5 C7975 1957.

The Cuban Question 1968 (Miami, FL:  “Cuba,” 1968].  Pamphlet from Cuban exiles from the Castro regime.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1759 C827 1968.

Fritz Daguillard.  A Battle of Titans:  The Slave Revolution in the Americas (MI:  1991).  Catalog of an exhibition at the Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan and at the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce, Ohio in 1991.  Includes material on revolution in Haiti.  Call Number:  N6538 N5 D3 1991.

Jefferson Davis.  The Address on the Mexican War and Its Results as Delivered by the Hon. Jefferson Davis before the Louisiana Associated Veterans of the Mexican War at Exposition Hall, New Orleans, Tuesday, March 7^th, 1876 ([1876]).  Copy of typed manuscript.  Call Number:  E415 D26 1876.

Jefferson Davis.  Speech of Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, on the Exercise of Civil Power and Authority by Military Officers; Delivered in the U.S. Senate, on Monday, August 5, 1850 ([Washington, DC:  1850]).  Reproduction copy.  Mexican War.  Call Number:  E405.1 D26 1850.

Decreto di sua maestà il re cattolico Filippo V. Sopra varie accusse portate al Suo Real Consiglio delle Indie contro I Gesuiti del Paraguay.  Con la Lettera dell’ Illustriss., e Rmo Signore D. Frà Guiseppe de Peralta dell’ Ordine di S. Domenico Vescovo de Buenosayres, Che vien citata dal Rè nel suo Decreto.  Coll’ Agguinta Di due Lettere di Sua Maestà Cattolica al Provincial della Compagnia di Gesù nel Paraguay (Naples, Italy:  1744).  First edition in Italian of the 1743 proclamation by King Philip V of Spain that resulted in the expulsion of the Jesuit Catholic order from their Reductiones in Paraguay.    Special Collections copy bound with the Spanish translation of the above title, Decreto de la Magestad del Rey catholico Phelipe V. sobre varias Acussaciones dedas en su Decreto.  Y la Carta del Ilmo, y Rmo Senor D.F. Joseph de Peralta del Orden de S. Domino, Obispo de Buenes-Ayres, Que cita el Rey en su Decreto.  Y las Cartas tambien de su Magestad Catholica al provincial del Paraguay (Naples, Italy:  1744).  Call Number:  F2684 P3.

Tulio Diaz Rivera.  The Cause of Cuba Is the Cause of America (Miami, FL:  Corporaciones Económicas de Cuba, 1962).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  F1788.2 D53 1962.

Christopher Dickey.  With the Contras:  A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua (New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1985).  Signed by author.  From the Chris M. Elmore Collection.  Call Number:  E183.8 N5 D53 1985.

Directorio telefónico de La Habana (Havana, Cuba:  Cuban Telephone Co.).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  HE8969 H3 D57.

A Disgrace to the Americas:  Communist Cuba (the Flagrant and Uninterrupted Violation of All Human Rights by the Castro Regime) (Miami, FL:  Unidad Revolucionaria, 1963).  Part of the Bulletins on Political, Social and Economic Studies.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  JC599 C8 D57 1963.

Nell Dorr.  The Bare Feet (Greenwich, CT:  New York Graphic Society, 1962).  Art photography of Teotitlan del Valle in Mexico.  Signed by author.  From the Walter and Florence Lewisohn Collection.  Call Number:  TR650 D67.

Kevin Dougherty.  Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience (Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 2007).  Call Number:  E467 D688 2007.

Theodore Drape.  Castroism, Theory and Practice (New York:  F.A. Praeger, 1965).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 D68 1965.

Jules Dubois.  Fidel Castro:  rebelde, libertador o dictador? (Mexico:  Editorial Grijalbo, 1959).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 C3 D818 1959.

Dwight D. Eisenhower.  Strengthening Friendship and Trust among the American Republics:  President Eisenhower’s Visit to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, February-March 1960 (Washington, DC:  Department of State, 1960).  Address delivered by television and radio on 21 February 1960.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  F1418 E38 1960.

James Wilford Garner.  Address of Mr. James W. Garner on Has the United States the Right to Exclude from the Use of the Canal Any Class of Foreign Vessels, such as Railway-Owned Vessels?  Delivered at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law at Washington, D.C., April 26, 1913 (Washington, DC:  Press of Byron S. Adams, 1913).  Panama Canal.  Mississippi author.  Call Number:  F1569 C2 G3.

Bob T. Epstein.  Calypso Cafe:  Cooking up the Best Island Flavors from the Keys and the Caribbean (Memphis, TN:  Wimmer Companies Inc., 1996).  Signed by author.  From the Southern Foodways Alliance Collection.  Call Number:  TX725 C37 E67 1996.

A.O. Exquemelin.  Histoire des avanturiers, flibustiers, qui se sont signalez dans les Indes : contenant ce qu'ils ont fait de remarquable depuis vingt années : avec la vie, les moeurs & les coûtumes des boucaniers, & des habitans de S. Dominguë & de la Tortuë; une description exacte de ces lieux; et un etat des offices tant ecclesiastiques que seculieres où le Roy d'Espagne pourvoit, des revenus qu'il tire de l'Amerique, & de ce que les plus grands princes de l'Europe y possedent; le tout enrichi de cartes géographiques et de figures en taille-douce (Paris:  Jacques Le Febvre, 1699).  French translation of a book originally published in Dutch which is the primary source for information on piracy in the seventeenth century.  Subsequent translations in various languages and editions over the years added new information and new biographies of pirates.  The first French translation was in 1686.  Special Collections has volume 1 of this 1699 edition.  Call Number:  F2161 E96 1699.

George William Featherstonhaugh.  Excursions through the Slave States, from Washington on the Potomac, to the Frontier of Mexico; with Sketches of Popular Manners and Geological Notices (New York:  Harper & Brothers, 1844).  Chapters 33 and 34 consider relations between Mexico and Texas. Call Number:  F210 F28.

Nat Fleischer.  Black Dynamite:  The Story of the Negro in the Prize Ring from 1782 to 1938 (New York:  C.J. O’Brien Inc., [circa 1938-1947]).  Includes a chapter on Barbados Joe Walcott (1873-1935) from British Guyana who was World Welterweight Champion from 1901 to 1906.  Call Number:  GV1131 F65.

Florestan Fernandes.  The Negro in Brazilian Society (New York:  Atheneum, 1971).  Translation by Jacqueline D. Skiles, et al. from Portuguese edition.  From the Sterling Plumpp Collection.  Call Number:  F2659 N4 F413 1971.

Firing Line:  The CIA and Foreign Policy:  Host, William F. Buckley, Jr.; Guests:  E. Howard Hunt, Former CIA Agent; Mario Lazo, Cuban Expatriate (Columbia, SC:  Southern Educational Communications Association, 1973).  Transcript of a television episode of Firing Line recorded in San Francisco on January 18, 1973 and telecast on PBS on January 21, 1973.  Inscribed by Laso to Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  E183.8 C9 F57 1973.

Roger W. Fontaine.  U.S.-Cuban Relations:  A New Look (Washington, DC:  Council for Inter-American Security, 1977).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  E183.8 C9 F58 1977.

Henry S. Foote.  Texas and the Texans: or, Advance of the Anglo-Americans to the South-west; Including History of Leading Events in Mexico, from the Conquest by Fernando Cortes to the Termination of the Texan Revolution (Philadelphia, PA:  Thomas, Coperthwait & Co., 1841).  Two volumes.  Author was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi.  From the Judge Stone Deavours Collection.

Henry S. Foote.  The War with Mexico:  Speech of Hon. Henry S. Foote, of Mississippi, in the Senate of the United States, January 19 & 20, 1848, on the Bill Reported from the Committee on Military Affairs to Raise, for a Limited Time, an Additional Military Force (Washington, DC:  Congressional Globe Office, 1848).  Call Number:  E407 F6.

Foto Impresiones (Miami, FL).  Special Collections has No. 42 (31 July 1965).  Picture magazine on Cuba.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  F184 C97 F686.

Free Negroism, or, Results of Emancipation in the North, and the West India [sic Indies] Islands:  With Statistics of the Decay of Commerce, Idleness of the Negro, His Return to Savagism, and the Effect of Emancipation upon the Farming, Mechanical and Laboring Classes (New York:  Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 1862).  Anti-abolition tract.  Call Number:  E449 F8525 1862.

Freedom School (Colorado Springs, Colo.).  Cuba:  Survey III (Colorado Springs, CO:  Pine Tree Press, [196-].  Compilation of answers to survey mailed to interested individuals.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  E183.8 C9 C819 1960z.

Frente Revolucionario Democrático.  The People of Cuba Demand Collective Action:  Petition to the Organization of American States Presented by the Cuban Revolutionary Front, on November 14, 1960 [1961].  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 F69518 1961.

Gilberto Freyre.  The Masters and the Slaves:  A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization (New York:  Knopf, 1946).  Translation by Sam Putnam from the Portuguese of the fourth Brazilian edition.  Call Number:  F2510 F7522.

Serafín García Menocal.  The Lesson the United States Can Learn from Cuba:  Address by Serafín G. Menocal (Princeton, NJ:  M.M. Wilson, [1964]).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 G275 1964.

James Wilford Garner.  Address:  Has the United States the Right to Exclude from the Use of the Canal Any Class of Foreign Vessels, such as Railway-owned Vessels?:  Delivered at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law at Washington, DC, April 26, 1913 (Washington, DC:  Press of Byron S. Adams, 1913).  Panama Canal.  Mississippi author.  From the James W. Garner Collection.  Call Number:  F1569 C2 G3.

James Wilford Garner.  Ideas e instituciones politicas americanas; conferencias del Circulo frances de la Universidad de Harvard, fundacion James Hazen Hyde, dictadas en las universidades francesas (Panama:  Imprenta national, 1928).  Spanish translation of Mississippi-born political scientist James Wilford Garner on the American government system.  From the James W. Garner Collection.  Call Number:  JK271 G33.

Maurice B. Gatlin.  Our Only American “Commonweath”:  The Real Story of Puerto Rico and Its Publicized “Operation Bootstrap” (New Orleans, LA:  Hauser Print Co., 1957).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  HC154.5 G38 1957.

Fanny Chambers Gooch.  Face to Face with the Mexicans:  The Domestic Life, Educational, Social and Business Ways, Statesmanship and Literature, Legendary and General History of the Mexican People, as Seen and Studied by an American Woman during Seven Years of Intercourse with Them (New York:  Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1887).  Author was born in Mississippi.  From the Judge Stone Deavours Collection.  Call Number:  F1215 I24.

Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine.  Gorgas Memorial Laboratories:  Research Work Touching Causes and Prevention of Tropical Diseases:  Panama (Washington, DC:  1928).  From the D.J. Canale Collection.  Call Number:  R108 G6 A5 1928.

William Crawford Gorgas.  Sanitation of the Tropics with Special Reference to Malaria and Yellow Fever (from the Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 52, no. 14 (3 April 1909)).  Paper read at the Fourth Pan-American Scientific Congress on 25 December 1908 in Santiago, Chile.  From the D.J. Canale Collection.  Call Number:  RC206 G67 1909.

Stephen Gorove, ed.  Legal Aspects of International Development:  Regional Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Mexico City (University, MS:  L.Q.C. Lamar Society of International Law, 1977).  Call Number:  K3829.6 S4 1975.

Richard Grant.  Bandit Roads:  in deas gesetzlose Herz Mexikos (München, Germany:  Frederking & Thaler, 2008).  German translation of Bandit Roads:  Into the Lawless Heart of Mexico.  From the Richard Grant Collection.  Call Number: F1340 G7315 2008.

Richard Grant.  God’s Middle Finger:  Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre (New York:  Free Press, 2008).  Travel into Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range of Mexico.  Advance uncorrected proof with annotations by author.  From the Richard Grant Collection.  Call Number:  F1340 G73 2008b.

Richard Grant.  Reis naar het wetteloze hart van Mexico (Amsterdam, Netherlands:  Atlas, 2009).  Translation of Bandit Roads:  Into the Lawless Heart of Mexico.  From the Richard Grant Collection.  Call Number:  F1340 G73128 2009.

Ulysses S. Grant.  Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (New York:  C.L. Webster & Co., 1885-86).  Two volumes.  Volume 1 includes chapters on the Mexican War.  Call Number:  E672 G76.

Dana S. Green, ed.  Chasms in the Americas (New York:  Friendship Press, 1970).  Christianity in Latin America.  Inscribed to James Meredith by the editor.  From the James Meredith Collection.  Call Number:  F1408.2 C45 1970.

J.W. Gregory.  The Menace of Colour:  A Study of the Difficulties Due to the Association of White & Colored Races, with an Account of Measures Proposed for Their Solution, & Special Reference to White Colonization in the Tropics (Philadelphia, PA:  J.B. Lippincott, 1925).  Chapter 4 “South America.”  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  HT1521 G7.

John Griffiths, ed.  Caribbean Connections (London:  Commission for Racial Equality, 1984).  From the James Meredith Collection.  Call Number:  F2169 C364 1984.

Grupo Cubano de Investigaciones Económicas.  Un estudio sobre Cuba : colonia, república, experimento socialista: estructura económica, desarrollo institucional, socialismo y regression (Coral Gables, FL:  University of Miami Press, 1963).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  HC157 C9 G74 1963.

Jessie Parkhurst Guzman, ed.  Negro Year Book:  A Review of Events Affecting Negro Life 1941-1946 (Tuskegee, AL:  Dept. of Records and Research, Tuskegee Institute, 1947).  Part Four “The Negro in Latin America” pages 603-631.  From the William Ferris Collection.  Call Number:  HT1581 N4 1947.

Eugene C. Harter. The Lost Colony of the Confederacy (Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1985).  Voluntary exiles of former Confederates from the American Civil War in Brazil.  Call Number:  F2659 A5 H37 1985.

José Maria Hernández.  Fidel Castro:  Hitler of the Western Hemisphere (Tulsa, OK:  Christian Crusade, 1976).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 H47 1976.

Louise Sandifer Hicks.  Wings on My Feet (Greenwood, MS:  Baff).  Travel memoir by woman from Greenwood, Mississippi who visited Mexico and Central America in 1963, Jamaica in 1964, Central and South America in 1965, Mexico in 1967, Caribbean in 1968 and 1972, and Mexico in 1972.  Call Number:  G226 H53 H53 1075.

Stanley E. Hilton.  Hitler’s Secret War in South America, 1939-1945:  German Military Espionage and Allied Counterespionage in Brazil (Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 1981).  From the Percy E. Foxworth Collection.  Call Number:  D810 S7 H47 1981. 

Hispanic Cuisine (Hispanic Presence Committee at the General Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1982).  Cookbook.  From the Southern Foodways Alliance Collection.  Call Number:  TX716 A1 H573 1982.

Tony Horowitz.  A Voyage Long and Strange:  Rediscovering the New World (New York:  Henry Holt and Co., 2008).  Includes the chapters “Santo Domingo:  The Columbus Jinx” and “Dominican Republic:  You Think There Are Still Indians?”  From the Jay L. Wiener Collection.  Call Number:  E101 H77 2008.

John Camden Hotten.  The Original Lists of Persons of Quality:  Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700.  With Their Ages, the Localities Where They Formerly Lived in the Mother Country, the Names of the Ships in Which They Embarked, and Other Interesting Particulars.  From Mss. Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty’s Public Record Office, England (London, England:  Chatto and Windus, 1874).  Barbados.  Call Number:  E187.5 H795 1874a.

H. Gray Howell, ed.  A Southern Lacrimosa:  The Mexican War Journal of Thomas Neely Love, Surgeon, Second Regiment Mississippi Volunteer Infantry, U.S.A. (Chickasaw Bayou Press, 1995).  The journal dates from December 1846 to May 1847.  Inscribed by editor.  Call Number:  E411 L6 1995.

Hoy (Mexico:  D.F. Editorial Actualidades).  Periodical.  Special Collections has 21 October 1961 edition.  Call Number:  AP63 H86 (OVRS).

Sarah Ethridge Hunt.  Games and Sports the World Around (New York:  Ronald Press Co., 1964).  Third revised edition with chapter on Latin America.  Author was from Long Beach, Mississippi.  Call Number:  GV1201 H9 1964.

Sarah Ethridge Hunt and Ethel Cain.  Games the World Around:  Four Hundred Folk Games for an Integrated Program in the Elementary School (New York:  A.S. Barnes, 1941).  The authors were Physical Education faculty at the Delta State Teachers College in Cleveland, Mississippi.  Includes games from Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and South and Central America.  Call Number:  GV1201 H9.  Special Collections also has a 1950 edition.  Call Number:  GV1201 H9 1950. 

Zora Neale Hurston.  Tell My Horse (Philadelphia, PA:  J.B. Lippincott Co., 1938).  Examination of voodoo on Haiti and Jamaica by the African American author who participated in the rites.  One copy from the Sterling Plumpp Collection; one copy from the William Ferris Collection; one copy from the Kenneth S. Goldstein Collection.  Call Number:  F1886 H87.

Zora Neale Hurston.  Voodoo Gods:  An Inquiry into Native Myths and Magic in Jamaica and Haiti (London:  J.M. Dent & Sons, 1939).  American edition published year earlier under the title Tell My Horse.  Call Number:  F1886 H873.

Aldous Huxley.  Beyond the Mexique Bay (New York:  Harper & Brothers, 1934).  Travels in Central America, particularly Guatemala and Mexico.  Advance review copy with publisher’s promotional document and stamp date “Apr 9 1934.”  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  F1432 H89.

Jim Ingram with James Dickerson.  The Hero among Us:  FBI Witness Hunter:  A Memoir (Brandon, MS:  Sartoris Literary Group, 2013).  Includes the chapter “Mass Suicide in Guyana.”  Inscribed and signed by the author.  From the Ray Mabus Collection.  Call Number:  HV8144 F43 I54 2013.

IWY Bulletin (New York:  Branch for the Promotion of Equality of Men and Women of the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs).  Special Collections has September 1976 edition, a special issue for the World Conference of the International Women’s Year, held in Mexico City on 19 June to July 1975.  From the Sarah Isom Center Collection.  Call Number:  HQ1101 I12.

C.L.R. James.  Modern Politics:  Being a Series of Lectures on the Subject Given at the Trinidad Public Library, in Its Adult Education Programme (Trinidad, West Indies:  PNM Publishing Co., 1960).  Call Number:  JF51 J35 1960.

Neill James.  Dust on My Heart:  Petticoat Vagabond in Mexico (New York:  C. Scribner’s Sons, 1946).  Author was born in Mississippi and traveled extensively writing her Petticoat Vagabond series.  This volume describes her climb of Popocatelptl and the eruption of the volcano Paracutin.  Call Number:  F1215 J35. 

Rie Jarratt.  Guiterrez de Lara, Mexican-Texan:  The Story of a Creole Hero (Austin, TX:  Creole Texana, 1949).  Biography of the first governor of Mexican Texas.  Call Number:  F1232 G9832.

Haynes Johnson with Manuel Artime.  The Bay of Pigs:  The Leaders’ Story of Brigade 2506 (New York:  Dell Pub. Co., 1964).  Failed Cuban invasion.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number: F1788 J6 1964b.

Leroi Jones.  Cuba Libre (New York:  Fair Play for Cuba Committee, 1960).  Account of Jones’ visit to Cuba; author’s name changed to Amiri Baraka later in life.  From the James O. Eastland Collection.  Call Number:  F1936.2 B224 1960. 

Morton C. Kahn.  Djuka, the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana (New York:  Viking Press, 1931).  Call Number:  F2420 K13.

Bern Keating.  Life and Death of the Aztec Nation (New York:  Putnam, 1964).  Juvenile literature.  Author born in Mississippi.  Signed by author.  From the Bern Keating Collection.  Call Number:  F1219 K4.

George Wilkins Kendall.  Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, Comprising a Description of a Tour through Texas, and Across the Great Southwestern Prairies, the Camanche and Caygua Hunting-grounds, with an Account of the Sufferings from Want of Food, Losses from Hostile Indians, and Final Capture of the Texans, and Their March, as Prisoners, to the City of Mexico (New York:  Harper and Brothers, 1844).  Special Collections has Volume 2.  Call Number:  F390 K32 v.2.

John F. Kennedy.  John F. Kennedy, a Self-Portrait (New York:  Caedmon, 1964).  LP record album drawn from the archives of NBC News, including “The Cuba Crisis, October 22, 1962; Its Sequel, November 2, 1962.”  From the Tyrone K. Yates/John F. Kennedy Collection.  Call Number:  E838.5 K45 1964.

John F. Kennedy.  John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the Presidential Years (1960-1963) (New York:  Pickwick International, 1964).  LP album with excerpts from Kenedy’s speeches, including “On Cuba, Oct. 23, 1962.”  From the Tyrone K. Yates/John F. Kennedy Collection.  Call Number:  J82 D9 J64 1964.

Robert F. Kennedy.  Thirteen Days:  A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (New York:  W.W. Norton, 1969).  One copy in Special Collections inscribed by U.S. diplomat W. Averell Harriman.  From the Tyrone K Yates/John F. Kennedy Collection.  Call Number:  E183.8 R9 K42.

Know Mississippi Better Train, 1937:  13^th Annual Tour over 7000 Miles Visiting Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, New Mexcio, California, Grand Canyon (Jackson, MS:  1937).  Mississippi promotional tour.  Call Number:  F341 K66 1937.

Alberto Fréderico de Morais.  A terra goytacá á luz de documentos inéditos (Niterói:  Diário official, 1941- ).  Special Collections has volume 6 of this history of Brazil.  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  F2524 L36 1941.

David Lavender.  Climax at Buena Vista:  The American Campaigns in Northeastern Mexico, 1846-47 (Philadelphia, PA:  J.B. Lippincott Company, 1966.  Call Number:  E405.1 L3.

Mario Lazo.  Dagger in the Heart:  American Policy Failures in Cuba (New York:  Twin Circle, 1968).  Inscribed to Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. by author.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  E183.8 C9 L36. 

Mario Lazo.  Decision for Disaster:  At Last – The Truth about the Bay of Pigs (Pleasantville, NY:  Reader’s Digest Association, 1964).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 L39 1964.

Fitzhugh Lee and Joseph Wheeler.  Cuba’s Struggle against Spain with the Causes of American Intervention and a Full Account of the Spanish-American War:  Including Final Peace Negotiations (New York:  American Historical Press, 1899.  “With a Story of Santiago by Theodore Roosevelt; a Description of the Destruction of the ‘Maine’ by Richard Wainwright.”  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 L44 1899.

Rubén de León.  El origen del mal (Cuba, un ejemplo) (Miami, FL:  1964).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1776 L44 1964.

Taylor Littleton.  The Color of Silver:  William Spratling, His Life and Art (Baton Rouge:  Louisiana State University Press, 2000).  Biography of American expatriate whose silversmith business in Taxco, Mexico influenced generation of artisans.  Call Number:  NK7198 S67 L58 2000.

Alan Lomax.  Haitian Journey:  A Search for Native Folk Lore (from the Southwest Review Vol. 23, no. 2 (January 1938).  Call Number:  GR121 H3 L6 1938.

Carlos Lorch, ed.  Naval Power:  Marinha do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:  Centro de Comunicac, ão Social da Marinha:  Action Editora, 2006).  Inscribed to U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus by Julio Soares de Moura Neto, Comandante de Marinha of Brazil with his enclosed business card.  From the Ray Mabus Collection.  Call Number:  VA422 N29 2006.

Jay Mallin.  Fortress Cuba:  Russia’s American Base (Chicago:  H. Regnery Co., 1965).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 M25 1965.

Luis V. Manrara.  Plan para la Victoria:  un esquema (Miami, FL:  1968).  Cuba.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 M36 1968.

Jorge Ricardo Masetti.  Los que luchan y los que Iloran:  el Fidel Castro que yo vi (Havana, Cuba:  Editorial Madiedo, 1959).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 C3 M3 1959.

Jonathan Evan Maslow.  Bird of Life, Bird of Death:  A Naturalist’s Journey through a Land of Political Turmoil (New York:  Laurel, 1987).  Signed by author.  Travel through Guatemala in search of the Quetzal bird.  From the Chris. M. Elmore Collection.  Call Number:  QL696 T7 M37 1987. 

Dabney Herndon Maury.  Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars (New York:  C. Scribner’s Sons, 1894).  From the D.J. Canale Collection.  Call Number:  E415.9 M3 M3.

Brantz Mayer.  Mexico as It Was and as It Is (New York:  J. Winchester, New World Press, 1844).  The author was the U.S. Legation to Mexico in 1841-1842.  From the Walter and Florence Lewisohn Collection.  Call Number:  F1213 M46.

William D. McCain.  The United States and the Republic of Panama (Durham, NC:  Duke University Press, 1937).  Mississippi author.  Call Number:  F1566 M24.

William D. McCain.  The United States and the Republic of Panama (New York:  Russell & Russell, 1965).  Mississippi author.  Call Number:  F1566 M24 1937a.

John T. McCutcheon and Evelyn Shaw McCutcheon.  The Island Song Book:  Being a Small Collection of Our Favorite Ballads, Anthems, Lullabies and Dirges of This Particular Section of the Bahama Islands and Also Such Other Ditties as Have Seemed Befitting by Reason of Their Piractical, Nautical or Sentimental Appeal.  Together with Several Local and Topical Lays Relating Only to Treasure Island.  To Which Is Prefix’d an Explanatory and Historical Introduction.  To Which Is Added a Number of Sketches and Photographs Illustrative of Same (Chicago:  Chicago Tribune Tower, 1927).  Inscribed by John and Evelyn McCutcheon and Carl Sandburg.  From the Kenneth S. Goldstein Collection.  Call Number:  M1681 B33 I8 1927.

Mexico.  Secretaria de Marina.  Día de la Armada:  23 de Noviembre / SEMAR, Secretaria de Marina (Carpizo, Campeche, Mexico:  Ex-Finca San Luis, [2013]).  Inscribed to U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus during his visit to Mexico dated December 2019.  From the Ray Mabus Collection.  Call Number:  VA403 D53 2013.

Nina Millen.  Missionary Hero Stories:  True Stories of Missionaries and National Christian Leaders from All Parts of the World (New York:  Friendship Press, 1948).  Includes chapters on Charlotte Kemper (1837-1927) and Eric Nelson (1862-1939) in Brazil and Primo Navarro (1873-1927) in Cuba.  Call Number:  BV3700 M5.

Margie Ingram Mills.  “A Study of Printing in Mexico during the Sixteenth Century” (Library Science Essay, University of Mississippi, 1960).  Call Number:  Lib. Sc. Essay M6575.

Hernando De Soto Money.  Moroccan Conference and Relations with Santo Domingo:  Speech of Hon. Hernando D. Money, of Mississippi in the Senate of the United States, Thursday, January 25, 1906 (Washington, DC:  1906).  Morocco and Dominican Republic.  Call Number:  DT317 M6.

Movimiento Unidad Revolucionaria.  Can This Happen to the Americas?:  Yes!  It Can Happen if the Peoples of America Fail to Realize the Danger of Communism in the Caribbean:  The Loss of Latin America Would Mean Military and Economic Disaster for the Western Hemisphere (Miami, FL:  Movimiento Unidad Revolucionaria, [1963]).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  HX158.5 C325 1963.

Henry A. Murray.  Lands of the Slave and the Free: Or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada (London:  J.W. Parker, 1855).  Two volumes.  Call Number:  E166 M978.

John P. Murtha.  From Vietnam to 9/11:  On the Front Lines of National Security, with a New Epilogue on the Iraq War, Update 2006 (University Park:  Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006).  Includes chapter “A Stolen Election and U.S. Intervention in Panama.”  Inscribed to U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus by author.  From the Ray Mabus Collection.  Call Number:  E840.8 M83 A3 2006.

Roy Nash.  O Brasil em 2 044:  uma tarefa para a mocidade brasileira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:  C.E.B., 1945).  "Conferência lida no Salão de conferências da biblioteca do Ministério das Relaçöes Exteriores do Brasil, no dia 16 de agosto de 1944."  Economic conditions in Brazil.  Inscribed to Herschel Brickell by the author.  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  HC187 N17.

Arthur Howard Noll.  A Short History of Mexico (Chicago:  A.C. McClurg, 1890).  Author was a rector of St. James Church in Port Gibson, Mississippi.  From the Judge Stone Deavours Collection.  Call Number:  F1226 N79.

Benjamin Moore Norman.  Rambles by Land and Water, or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico; Including a Canoe Voyage up the River Panuco, and Researches among the Ruins of Tamaulipas (New York:  Paine & Burgess, 1845).  Author died in Summit, Mississippi.  From the Judge Stone Deavours Collection.  Call Number:  F1213 N84.

Benjamin Moore Norman.  Rambles in Yucatan; or, Notes of Travel through the Peninsula, Including a Visit to the Remarkable Ruins of Chi-Chen, Kabah, Zayi, and Uxmal (New York:  H.G. Langley, 1844).  Travel in Yucatan, Mexico and exploration of pre-Columbian antiquities.  Author died in Summit, Mississippi.  From the Judge Stone Deavours Collection.  Call Number:  F1376 N85.

Nouvelles des missions d’Amerique, extradites des Lettres edifaiantes & curieuses (Paris, France:  Martial Ardant freres, [1833]).  French language.  Letters by Jesuits from missions in various parts of New France (area of North America colonized by France), California, Santo Domingo [Dominican Republic], and Guiana dating from 1702 to 1751.  Call Number:  F1030.7  N93.

Liborio Noval.  Instantáneas (Havana, Cuba:  Instituto Cubano del Libro, 1999).  In Spanish and Italian.  Portraits of Fidel Castro.  Inscribed by author.  From the Jay L. Wiender Collection.  Call Number:  F1788.22 C3 N68 1999.

Karl Anton Nowotny.  Codex Borgia:  Biblioteca aspostolica vaticana (Messicano 1):  vollst. Faks-Ausg. Des Codex im Originalformat (Graz, Austria:  Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1976).  Facsimile reproduction of pre-Columbian document considered to be an important source on Central Mexican gods, ritual, divination, calendar, religion, and iconography.  Call Number:  F1219 C65 1976 (OVRS).

Karl Anton Nowotny.  Codex Cospi:  Calendario messicano 4093, Biblioteca universitaria Bologna:  Einleitung und Summary (Graz, Austria:  Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1968).  Facsimile reproduction and introduction of a pre-Columbian pictorial manuscript believed to derive from the Puebla-Tlaxcala region of Mexico that is in the possession of the University of Bologna in Italy.  Call Number:  F1219 C6549.

Sam Olden.  Getting to Know Argentina (New York:  Coward-McCann, 1961).  Juvenile literature.  The author was born in Yazoo County, Mississippi, graduated from the University of Mississippi, and traveled extensively through South America with the U.S. Foreign Service and on the staff of the Government Relations Department of Mobile Oil Co.  Call Number:  F2808.2 O4.

Sam Olden:  Interviewed at Home in Yazoo City, Miss. (University of Mississippi Library, [2012]).  Oral history conducted by Collins Wohner in 2011-2012 with Sam Golden who was born in Yazoo County, Mississippi, graduated from the University of Mississippi, and traveled extensively through South America with the U.S. Foreign Service and on the staff of the Government Relations Department of Mobile Oil Co..  Fifteen DVD recordings.  Disc 8 includes “Peru (1966-1969), Tomás, earthquakes); Disc 9:  “More Peru (1966-69), effect of coup, collecting haucos, writing of Getting to Know Argentina”.  Call Number:  E169 Z8 O53 2012.

Organization of American States.  Special Consultative Committee on Security.  Special Consultative Committee on Security against Subversive Action of International Communism:  Initial General Report, 1962 (Washington, DC:  Pan American Union, 1963).  Communism in Latin America.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  HX110.5 A6 O74 1963.

J.A. Osorio Lizarazo.  The Marxian Bacillus (Madrid, Spain:  Imp. Ed. Magisterio Espanol, 1959).  Communism in Latin America.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  HX177 O86 1959.

Robert L. Owen.  Yellow Fever:  A Compilation of Various Publications: Results of the Work of Maj. Walter Reed, Medical Corps, United States Army, and the Yellow Fever Commission (Washington, DC:  Government Printing Office, 1911).  Includes section “Reports from the Sanitary Officers in Habana, Cuba.”  From the D.J. Canale Collection.  Call Number:  RC206 Y5 1911.

Alberto Pavia Franco.  Two Letters to Mr. Charles O. Porter:  Representative for the State of Oregon in the United States (Mexico:  1960).  Published letters from Alberto Pavia Franco about Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina and the Dominican Republic.  One copy from the James O. Eastland Collection; one copy from the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  F1938.5 P38 1960.

Yumi Park.  Mirrors of Clay:  Reflections of Andean Life in Ceramics from the Sam Olden Collection (Jackson:  Jackson State University, Mississippi Museum of Art, 2012).  Art exhibition catalog of Andes regional pottery.  Call Number:  F2230.1 P8 P37 2012.

Fermin Peinado.  Beware Yankee:  The Revolution in Cuba (Miami, FL:  1961).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1788.2 1961 p4 1961.

Isidro Perez Martinez.  Resumen de la historia de Cuba (Havana, Cuba:  La moderna poesia, 1925).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Juvenile history book.  Call Number:  F1776 P35 1925.

R. Hart Phillips.  Cuba:  Island of Paradox (New York:  McDowell, Obolenskym, [1959]).  Author was the New York Times correspondent in Cuba.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 P5 1959.

Ulrich B. Phillips.  A Jamaica Slave Plantation (Reprint from the American Historical Review 19:3 (April 1914)).  Study based on a “plantation book” for the Worthy Park Plantation, St. John’s Parish, Jamaica for the years 1792-1796.  From the William Ferris Collection.  Call Number:  F1870 P55 1914.

Andrés de Piedra-Bueno.  Martí:  mensaje biográfico (Havana, Cuba:  Ediciones del Instituto Cívico-Militar, 1956).  Biography of José Martí, national hero for Cuban independence from Spain.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number: F1783 M38 P49 1956.

J.M. Polk.  The North and South American Review (Austin, TX:  Press of Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., 1914).  Includes “Ten Years in South America” a description of the Texas author’s travel across Brazil in  1888-1898.  From the D.J. Canale Collection.  Call Number:  E605 P775 1914.

François Joseph de Pons.  Travels in Parts of South America during the Years 1801, 1802, 1803 & 1804; Containing a Description of the Captain-Generalship of Carraccas, with an Account of the Laws, Commerce, and Natural Productions of that Country; as Also a View of the Customs and Manners of the Spaniards and Native Indians (London:  Richard Phillips, 1806).  Abridged English translation of the French edition.  South America and particularly Venezuela.  Call Number:  G161 P552.

Enrique Pizzi de Porras.  Mensaje a todos los que en Cuba, en América, en Europa y en el mundo se Ilama Batista (Mexico:  Ediciones Botas, 1962).  Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 B3 P5 1962.

Otey James Porter.  Haiti:  The United States, the Negro (Columbia, TN:  191-).  From the Alfred H. Stone Collection.  Call Number:  F1926 P85.

Francisco Prat Puig.  El pre-barroco en Cuba : una escuela criolla de arquitectura morisca (Havana, Cuba:  Biblioteca Nacional José Marti, 1947.  Islamic architecture in Cuba.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number: NA803 P7 1947.

Preludio al progresso: La visita del Licenciado Miguel Aleman al Estado de Mississippi y el establecimiento de la Asociacion de Mexico y los Estados Norteamericanos del Golfo de Mexico, Abril 28-30 de 1966 : Prelude to progress: The visit of Licenciado Miguel Alemam to Mississippi and the establishment of the Mexican-Gulf South Association, April 28-30, 1966 (Jackson, MS:  Mississippi Agricultural & Industrial Board, 1966).  Call Number:  E183.8 M6 P7.

William Hickling Prescott.  History of the Conquest of Mexico, and History of the Conquest of Peru (New York:  Modern Library, [1936]).  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  F1230 P969.

Dominique Verhasselt Puppinck, ed.  Regara bicentenario = Bicentennial Regatta:  Armada de Chile Velas Sudamérica 2010 (Santiago, Chile:  Kactus, 2010).  Translated in Spanish and English.  Inscribed by Chilean Admiral Edmundo Gonzlez Robles to U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabux.  From the Ray Mabus Collection.  Call Number:  GV775 L29 B534 2010.

John A. Quitman.  Speech of John A. Quitman, of Mississippi, on the Subject of the Neutrality Laws:  Delivered in Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, April 29, 1856 (Washington, DC:  Union Office, 1856).  Cuba.  Call Number:  F1783 Q85.

Mohammed A. Rauf.  Cuban Journal:  Castro’s Cuba as It Really Is:  An Eyewitness Account by an American Reporter (New York:  Crowell, 1964).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 R28 1964.

Leonidas Willing Ramsey.  Time Out for Adventure:  Let’s Go to Mexico (Garden City, NY:  Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934).  Author was born in Mississippi.  Call Number:  F1215 R19.

Robert L. Rands.  Some Manifestation of Water in Mesoamerican Art (Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955).  Smithsonian Institution.  Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 157.  Author was a University of Mississippi professor.  Call Number:  F1434 R3 S6.

Robert L. Rands.  The Water Lily in Maya Art:  A Complex of Alleged Asiatic Origin (Washington, DC:   Government Printing Office, 1953).  Smithsonian Institution.  Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 151.  Author was a University of Mississippi professor.  Call Number:  F1435 A7 R3.

Eudocio Ravines.  La gran estafa (Havana, Cuba:  Editorial Librerías Unidas, 1960).  Communist strategy in Latin America.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  HX177 R37 1960.

Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal.  A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies (London:  T. Cadell, 1777).  Translated from the French edition.  Third revised edition with maps adapted to the work and an index.  Special Collections has volumes 3 and 4.  Call Number:  D22 R32 1777.

Leonard E. Read.  Why Not Try Freedom? (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY:  Foundation for Economic Education, 1958).  Lectures delivered to Centro de Difusion de la Economia Libre, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 14-21, 1958.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  JC585 R42 1958.

Revista (Havana, Cuba:  Sociedad Cubana de Historia de la Medicina).  Special Collections has Vol. 2, no. 4 (October-December 1959).  Includes the English language article “Carlos J. Finlay and Yellow Fever” by Raoul Rodriguez Cabarrocas.  From the D.J. Canale Collection.  Call Number:  RC210 R45 v.2:4.

The Revolution in Cuba:  The Objective Truth of the Cuban Case (Madrid, Spain:  Ediciones Populares Lecalle, 1963).  English edition.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1788.2 E45 1963.

Arlene C. Rengert and Janice J. Monk, eds.  Women and Spatial Change:  Learning Resources for Social Science Courses (Dubuque, IA:  Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 1982).  Includes “Module 5:  Contemporary Female Migration to Cities in Latin America.”  From the Sarah Isom Center Collection.  Call Number:  HQ1206 W874 1982.

Richard R. Rivers and Elizabeth C. Seastrum.  Before the United States Department of Commerce International Trade Administration:  In the Matter of Anhydrous Ammonia from Mexico:  Countervailing Duty Petition under the Tariff Act of 1930, as Amended, 19 U.S.C. 1303:  On Behalf of W.R. Grace & Co., First Mississippi Corp., Mississippi Chemical Corp., Olin Corp… (Washington, DC:  Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, 1982).  From the Jamie L. Whitten Collection.  Call Number:  KFM6980 A7 B44 1982.

Walter Rodney.  The Groundlings with My Brothers (London:  Bogle-L’Ouverture Publications, 1975).  Black power in Jamaica.  Call Number:  F1896 N4 R6 1975.

Walter Rodney.  People’s Power, No Dictator, and the Struggle Goes on:  Two Moving Speeches (Harlem, NY:  Black Liberation Press, 1981).  “A Working People’s Alliance publication.”  Communism in Guyana.  Call Number:  JL689 A15 R629 1981.

Tommy W. Rogers.  The American Canal in Panama:  An Explanation of Issues and Perspectives (Jackson, MS:  Patriotic American Youth, 1978).  Call Number:  F1569 C2 R64 1978.

Isabel Ascanio de Royo.  Historia local de la Habana:  libro de informacion y trabajo:  para el tercer grado (Havana, Cuba:  Coleccion Cenit, 1953).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1799 H357 R69 1953.

William Russell.  The Bolivar Countries:  Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela (New York:  Coward-McCann, 1949).  Part of the Invitation to Travel Series.  Call Number:  F2216 R88 1949.

Joanne McRee Sanders, comp.  Barbados Records:  Wills and Administration Vol. 1 (Houston, TX:  Sanders Historical Publications, 1979).  Abstracted compilation of Barbados wills and administrations for the years 1639 through 1680; contains all names including servants and freed slaves, relationships, ages, titles, references to nationality, burial places, churches, as well as references to plantations, ships, and place names.  Call Number:  J137 S5.

Baldomero Sanin Cano.  Un pueblo en defensa de un mundo / B. Sanín Cano ; con unos documentos históricos de los Estados Unidos (Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia:  Centro Colombo-Americano, 1943).  United States.  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  E169.1 S246 1943.

Richard Evans Schultes.  A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Rivea Corymbosa:  The Narcotic Ololinqui of the Aztecs (Cambridge, MA:  Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1941).  Mexico.  Inscribed to the Brickells by the author.  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  RS165 R5 S3 1941.

Siglo y cuarto:  Diario de la marina, decano de la prensa de Cuba (Havana, Cuba:  Diario de la Marina Sociedad Anomina, 1957).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  PN4939 H383 D427 1957.

Lautaro Silva.  La herida roja de América (Cuidad Trujillo, Dominican Republic:  Editora Handicap, 1959).  Special Collections has volume 2.  Communism in Latin America and Chile.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  HZ177 S5 1959. 

Donald C. Simmons Jr.  Confederate Settlements in British Honduras (Jefferson, NC:  McFarland, 2001).  Call Number:  F1457 A5 S56 2001.

Lesley Byrd Simpson.  Many Mexicos (Berkley:  University of California Press, 1964).  3^rd revised edition.  Inscribed to James Meredith by Mary Lovett.  From the James Meredith Collection.  Call Number:  F1226 S63 1964.

Otis A. Singletary.  The Mexican War (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1960).  Call Number:  E404 S5.

Franklin Smith.  The Mexican War Journal of Captain Franklin Smith (Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1991).  Smith was a lawyer commissioned into the First Mississippi Regiment; his journal covers seven months in 1846-1847 while he was regimental quartermaster in Camargo, northern Mexico.  Call Number:  E411 S643 1991.

Some Considerations on the Consequences of the French Settling Colonies on the Mississippi, with Respect to the Trade and Safety of the English Plantations in America and the West-Indies (London:  J. Roberts, 1720).  Facsimile reproduction.  Call Number:  F352 S69.

Fred Lowe Soper.  The Organization of Permanent Nation-Wide Anti-Aedes Aegypti Measures in Brazil (New York:  Rockefeller Foundation, 1943).  Report of cooperative yellow fever service by the Brazilian government and the Rockefeller Foundation between 1929 and 1940.  From the D.J. Canale Collection.  Call Number:  RA644 Y4 S6.

Theodore C. Sorensen.  Kennedy (New York:  Harper & Row, 1965).  Recollection of President John F. Kennedy by his Special Counsel; includes section “The Confrontation in Cuba.”  Inscribed by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. with enclosed letter on inscription.  From the Tyrone K. Yates/John F. Kennedy Collection.  Call Number:  E841 S6.

Special Report of the Anti-Slavery Conference, Held in Paris in the Salle Herz, on the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh August, 1867, under the Presidency of Mons. Edouard Laboulaye (London, England:  Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1867).  Includes papers on Jamaica, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Cuba.  From the Alfred H. Stone Collection.  Call Number:  HT855 A6.

William Grant Still.  Danzaz de Panama; Based on Panamanian Folk Themes Collected by Elisabeth Waldo.  For 2 Violines, Viola and Cello (New York:  Southern Music Pub. Co., 1953).  Sheet music by Mississippi composer.  Call Number:  M452 S844 D3 1953.

William Grant Still.  Troubled Island (Southern Music & The Voice of America, 1990).  Cassette tape recording of opera on the revolution in Haiti by Mississippi composer with libretto by Langston Hughes; recorded by the State Department from the first performance in 1949.  Call Number:  M1500 S85 T7 1990.

Hudson Strode.  The Pageant of Cuba (New York:  Random House, 1936).  History.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1776 S87 1934.

Sharon Hartman Strom.  Confederates in the Tropics:  Charles Swett’s Travelogue of 1868 (Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 2011).  Historic examination of the travel of a Mississippian to British and Spanish Honduras to explore migration opportunities for former southern Confederates.  Call Number:  F1444 S77 2011.

Eduardo Suárez Rivas.  Un pueblo crucificado (Miami, FL:  1964).  Cuba.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 S9 1964.

Charles Swett.  A Trip to British Honduras, and to San Pedro, Republic of Honduras (New Orleans, LA:  Price Current Print, 1868).  Travel of a Mississippian to British and Spanish Honduras to explore migration opportunities for former southern Confederates.  From the Judge Stone Deavours Collection.  Call Number:  F1444 S9.

Charles S. Sydnor.  Letter from Alexander M. Clayton to J.F.H. Claiborne Relative to Cuban Affairs (reprint from The Hispanic American Historical Review 9:3 (August 1929)).  Full text of correspondence from Alexander M. Clayton to historian J.F.H. Claiborne regarding Clayton’s tenure as United States Consul to Havana in 1853-1854.  Call Number:  F1783 S9.

Pedro C.M. Teichert.  Economic Policy Revolution and Industrialization in Latin America (University, MS:  Bureau of Business Research, University of Mississippi, 1959).  Call Number:  HC165 T4.

Pedro C.M. Teichert.  The General Background of Latin America:  A Syllabus for an Economic Class in Latin American Resources and Development (University, MS:  1961).  Designed to supplement Dr. Teichert’s Latin American economics text Economic Policy Revolution and Industrialization in Latin America.  Call Number:  HC165 T42.

Jacob Thompson.  Increase of the Army:  Speech of Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Miss., Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 9, 1847, in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the Bill to Raise for a Limited Time an Additional Military Force, and for Other Purposes (Washington, DC:  Blair & Rives, 1847).  Mexican War.  Call Number:  E409 T56 1847.

Alfred M. Tozzer.  A Comparative Study of the Mayas and the Lacandones (New York:  Archaeological Institute of America, 1907).  From the Walter and Florence Lewisohn Collection.  Call Number:  F1435 T75.

Truth about Cuba Committee.  An Exposé of the Insidious Film “Three Faces of Cuba” (Miami, FL:  1965).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  F1760 T75 1965.

United States.  Bureau of Foreign Commerce.  American Republics Division.  Investment in Cuba:  Basic Information for United States Businessmen (Washington, DC:  U.S. Department of Commerce, 1956).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  HC157 C9 U45 1956.

United States.  Congress.  Senate.  Committee on Foreign Relations.  Subcommittee on American Republics Affairs.  United States-Latin American Relations:  Compilation of Studies Prepared under the Direction of the Subcommittee on American Republics Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Pursuant to S. Res. 330, 85^th Congress, S. Res. 31 and S. Res. 250, 86^th Congress (Washington, DC:  Government Printing Office, 1960).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  F1418 U69 1960.

United States.  Congress.  Senate.  Committee on the Judiciary.  Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws.  Communist Threat to the United States through the Caribbean.  Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session… (Washington, DC:  Government Printing Office, 1959).  Special Collections has “Part III:  Testimony of Gen. C.P. Cabell, Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency on November 5, 1959.”  From the James O. Eastland Collection.  Additional copies and parts available in Fed Gov Documents (Y 4.J 89/2:C 73/27).

Universidad de Oriente (Santiago de Cuba, Cuba).  El nuevo Palacio Municipal de Santiago de Cuba: principios en que se inspira el proyecto premiado (Cuba:  Santiago de Cuba, 1951).  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  NA4435 C9 S3 1951.

University of Mississippi.  Meek School of Journalism and New Media.  M-Powered:  University of Mississippi Students Learn through Service in Belize (University, MS:  2012).  Call Number:  F1449 B4 M2 2012.

University of Mississippi.  Office of International Programs.  Politics around the World (University, MS:  University of Mississippi Media and Documentary Projects, 2008).  University program held prior to the 2008 presidential debate on campus in which six international students, including one from Argentina, discuss the political process in their individual countries.  Call Number:  JF1001 P655 2008.

U.S. President.  Message from the President of the United States, to the Two Houses of Congress:  At the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirtieth Congress.  December 7, 1847 (Washington, DC:  Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1847).  Mexican War; accompanied by reports from the Secretaries of State, War, Navy, and Postmaster General.  Call Number:  E404 U56 1847.

Armando Valladares.  Against All Hope:  The Prison Memoirs of Armando Vallandares (New York:  Knopf, 1986).  English translation of Spanish edition.  Autobiography of Cuban political prisoner.  Signed by author.  From the Thad Cochran Collection.  Call Number:  HV9557.5 V35 A3813 1986.

John H. Van Evrie.  White Supremacy and Negro Subordination or, Negroes a Subordinate Race, and (So-Called) Slavery Its Normal Condition:  With an Appendix, Showing the Past and Present Condition of the Countries South of Us (New York:  Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 1868).  First edition published in 1861; this second edition contains an appendix not found in the original with the chapters:  “The Indian or Aboriginal Races of America,” “Spanish Conquest and Policy,” “The Mongrel Republics,” and “The Islands, Past and Present.”  Call Number:  E449 V259 1868.

John W. Vandercook.  Black Majesty (New York:  Literary Guild of America, 1928).  Biography of Henri Christophe, President of Haiti from 1807 to 1811 and then King of Haiti from 1811 to 1820.  Call Number:  F1924 V3 1928.

Harold Lord Varney.  The Panama Nightmare:  What Is Behind It? (Belmont, MA:  Committee of Pan American Policy, 1976).  Communism in Panama.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  F1569 C2 V37 1976.

Dominique Verhasselt Puppinck, ed.  Regata bicentenario = Bicentennial regatta:  Armada de Chile, Velas Sudamérica 2010 (Santiago, Chile:  Kactus, 2010).  English and Spanish text.  Inscribed by Chilean Admiral Edmundo Gonzlez Robles.  From the Ray Mabus Collection.  Call Number:  GV775 L29 B534 2010.

Derek Walcott.  The Antilles:  Fragments of Epic Memory:  The Nobel Lecture (New York:  Farrar, Staus, and Giroux, 1993).  Trinidad and Tobago.  Call Number:  F1609.5 W35 1993.

Cora Walker.  Cuatemo, Last of the Aztec Emperors (New York:  Dayton Press, 1934).  Call Number:  F1219 C84.

Robert J. Walker.  Letter of Hon. R.J. Walker on the Purchase of Alaska, St. Thomas and St. John (Washington, DC:  Chronicle Print, 1868).  Virgin Islands.  Walker was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi (1835-1845) and a Washington, DC lawyer at the time of this publication.  Call Number:  F908 W18 1868.

Harris Gaylord Warren.  Paraguay:  An Informal History (Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press, 1949).  Call Number:  F2681 W3.

Ronald C. White.  American Ulysses:  A Life of Ulysses S. Grant (New York:  Random House, 2016).  Include chapter on Grant calling for a canal across Panama.  Signed by author.  Part of the Jay Wiener Collection. Call Number:  E672 W48 2016.

Edward L. Widmer.  Listening In:  The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy (New York:  Hyperion, 2012).  Signed by Caroline Kennedy who wrote the Forward.  Topics covered includes Cuba.  From the Jay L. Wiener Collection.  Call Number:  E841 L57 2012.

Wendy Wilkinson and Donna Lee.  Morgan Freeman & Friends:  Caribbean Cooking for a Cause (Emmaus, PA:  Rodale, 2006).  Proceeds of celebrity cookbook to benefit the hurricane relief for the island of Grenada.  Call Number:  TX716 A1 W55 2006.

Joseph J. Williams.  Voodoos and Obeahs:  Phases of West India Witchcraft (New York:  L. MacVeagh, Dial Press Inc., 1932).  Handwritten letter from the author to William R. Ferris laid in.  From the William Ferris Collection.  Call Number:  BF1584 W5 W55 1932.

Richard Bruce Winders.  “The Role of the Mississippi Volunteers in Northern Mexico:  1846-1848” (M.A. thesis; University of Texas at Arlington, 1990).  Call Number:  E409.5 M56 W55 1990b.

Woman’s Club of Havana.  Garden Section.  Flowering Plants from Cuban Gardens = Plantas floridas de los jardines Cubanos (New York:  Criterionl Books, [1958]).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  SB407 W6 1958.

Woman’s Club of Havana.  Garden Section.  Flowering Plants from Cuban Gardens = Plantas floridas de los jardines Cubanos (Havana, Cuba:  Seoane, Fernandez, impresores, 1951).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  SB407 W6 1952.

Working Agenda for the First De-Communization World Congress to Be Held in Miami, Florida under the Auspices of the Havana Bar Association (in Exile) (Miami, FL:  1962).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  HX13 C65 1962.

Peter Wyden.  Bay of Pigs:  The Untold Story (New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1979).  Cuba.  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  Call Number:  F1788 W9.

Juvenal Acosta Hernández.  The Tattoo Hunter (Berkeley, CA:  Gato Negro Books/Creative Arts Book Co., 2002).  First novel by a Mexican poet and journalist.  Inscribed by the author to Larry Brown.  From the Larry Brown Collection.  Call Number:  PQ7298.1 c76 c3913 2002.

Jan Balet.  The Fence:  A Mexican Tale (New York:  Delacorte Press, 1969).  Juvenile literature. English translation of original German edition.  From the Seymour Lawrence Collection.  Call Number:  PZ7 B1975 Fe 1969.

William D’Avenant.  The Works of Sr William D’Avenant Kt:  Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed, and Those Which He Design’d for the Press:  Now Published out of the Author’s Originall Copies (London:  T.N. for Henry Herringman, 1673).  Includes “Playhouse to be Let, Containing the History of Sir Frances Drake, and the Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru.”  Author (1606-1668) was an English poet and playwright.  Call Number:  PR2470 1673 OVRS.

Eseoghene [i.e. Lindsay Barrett].  The Conflicting Eye (London:  Paul Breman, 1973).  Author was born in Jamaica; this collection of poems deals with racial themes and the emotions of an exile.  From the Sterling Plumpp Collection.  Call Number:  PR9265.9 B37 C6.

Lindsay Barrett.  Song for Mumu (Washington, DC:  Howard University Press, 1974). Novel’s author was born in Jamaica.  First American edition (originally published in London in 1967).  Call Number:  PR9265.9 B37 S6.  

Jorge Luis Borges.  Selected Poems:  1923-1967 (Harmondsworth, England:  Penguin Books, 1985).  Advance review copy notice from publisher enclosed.  Acclaimed author from Argentina.  From the Seymour Lawrence Collection.  Call Number:  PQ7797 B635 A17 1985.

Paul Breman, ed.  You Better Believe It:  Black Verse in English from Africa, the West Indies and the United States (Harmondsworth, England:  Penguin, 1973).  Call Number:  PS591 N4 B63 1973.

Herschel Brickell.  Cosecha colombiana:  discursos, ensayos y fragmentos (Bogota, Columbia:  Ediciones Librería Central, 1944).  Review of Columbian literature by a former New York Evening Post critic and Senior Cultural Relations Assistant to the American embassy in Columbia (1941-1943).  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  PQ8162 B75 1944.

Herschel Brickell.  Literatura contemporánea norteamericana : dos conferencias dictadas por el agregado cultural de la embajada de los Estados Unidos en Bogotá (Bogota, Columbia:  Prensas de la Biblioteca Nacional, 1943).  American literature and criticism translated into Spanish.  Review of Columbian literature by a former New York Evening Post critic and Senior Cultural Relations Assistant to the American embassy in Columbia (1941-1943).  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  PS221 B64.

Herschel Brickell.  Literatura contemporánea norteamericana : dos conferencias dictadas por el agregado cultural de la embajada de los Estados Unidos en Bogotá (Bogota, Columbia:  Publicacion del Centro Colombo-Americano, 1944).  2^nd edition.  American literature and criticism translated into Spanish.  Review of Columbian literature by a former New York Evening Post critic and Senior Cultural Relations Assistant to the American embassy in Columbia (1941-1943).  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  PS221 B64 1944.

Herschel Brickell.  News from Cuba (London:  International P.E.N., 1952).  Book review by Brickell in the International P.E.N. Bulletin of Selected Books Vol. 3, No. 2 (1952).  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  PS3515 E7714 N497 1952.

Herschel Brickell and Edward Larocque Tinker.  Exhibition of Argentine and Uruguayan Books (Walled Lake, MI:  American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, 1946).  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  Z121 B75 1946.

Ann Cameron.  The Most Beautiful Place in the World (New York:  Bullseye Books, 1993).  Juvenile fiction set in Guatemala.  Call Number:  PZ7 C1427 Mp 1993.

Ann Cameron.  Le plus bel endroit du monde (Paris, France:  l’École des loisirs, 1992).  Juvenile fiction set in Guatemala.  Call Number:  PZ7 C1427 Pl 1992.

Jan Carew.  Sea Drums in My Blood:  Poems (Diego Martin, Trinidad and Tobago:  The New Voices, 1981).  Born in Guyana, the author and was an important intellectual in the Caribbean world.  Inscribed to Sterling Plumpp by the author.  From the Sterling Plumpp Collection.  Call Number:  PS3553 A6686 S43 1981.

Joy Gleason Carew and Hazel Waters.  The Gentle Revolutionary:  Essays in Honour of Jan Carew (Bristol, UK:  Institute of Race Relations, 2002).  Born in Guyana, Jan Carew was a novelist, playwright, poet, and educator.  Volume includes a tribute from Mississippi author Sterling Plumpp, signed by Plumpp.  From the Sterling Plumpp Collection.  Call Number:  PR9320.9 C3 Z6 2002.

Alejo Carpentier.  El reino de este mundo: relato (Mexico:  Edicion y Distribucion Ibero Americana de Publicanciones, 1949).  Novel by Cuban author about the Haitian Revolution when African slaves fought for freedom from French colonists. Inscribed by author to Herschel Brickell.  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  PQ7389 C263 R45 1949.

Austin Clarke.  The Bigger Light (Boston:  Little, Brown, 1975).  Third volume in a trilogy of novels about West Indian domestics living in Canada by a Barbados author who became a Canadian citizen later in life.  From the Sterling Plumpp Collection.  Call Number:  PR9230.9 C5 B5 1975.

Austin Clarke.  The Meeting Point (Boston:  Little, Brown, 1972).  First volume in a trilogy of novels about West Indian domestics living in Canada by a Barbados author who became a Canadian citizen later in life.  From the Sterling Plumpp Collection.  Call Number:  PR9230.9 C5 M4 1972.

Austin Clarke.  Storm of Fortune (Boston:  Little, Brown, 1973).  Second volume in a trilogy of novels about West Indian domestics living in Canada by a Barbados author who became a Canadian citizen later in life.  From the Sterling Plumpp Collection.  Call Number:  PR9230.9 C5 S8 1973.

Austin Clarke.  When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks (Boston:  Little, Brown, 1973).  From the Sterling Plumpp Collection.  Short story collection by a Barbados author who became a Canadian citizen later in life.  Call Number:  PR9230.9 C5 W34 1973.

LeRoy Clarke.  Taste of Endless Fruit:  Love Poems and Drawings (Brooklyn, NY:  L. Clarke, 1974).  Author/artist was born in Trinidad and Tobago.  From the Sterling Plumpp Collection.  Call Number:  PR9272.9 C54 T3.

Basil Cooper.  Tomorrow Is Today’s Dream (Nassau, Bahamas:  Bahama Life, 1971).  Signed by author on cover.  Inscribed inside cover to Maxine Street by author.  Novel by a Bahama author, radio journalist, and publisher.  Call Number:  PR9220.9 C6 T6 1971.

O.R. Dathorne.  Dumplings in the Soup (London:  Cassell, 1963).  The novel’s author was born in Guyana and founder of the Association of Caribbean Studies.  From the James Meredith Collection.  Call Number:  PR9320.9 D37 D8 1963.

William Faulkner.  Las palmeras salvajes (Buenos Aires, Argentina:  Editorial Sudamericana, 1966).  Translation of Faulkner’s The Wild Palms by Jorge Luis Borges, acclaimed author from Argentina.  Call Number:  PS3511 A86 W5 1966a.

Freedom Has No Price:  An Anthology of Poems:  Festival of the Revolution, March 1-13, Grenada 1980 (Bridgetown, Barbados:  Modern Printing & Graphics Ltd., [1980]).  Inscribed to Sterling Plump by one of the contributors, Vincent Williams.  From the Sterling Plumpp Collection.  Call Number:  PR9216 F73 1980.

Günther Feustel.  José:  A Tale from South America (New York:  Delacorte Press, 1968).  English translation from the original German edition.  Juvenile literature of an Indian boy in Bolivia.  From the Seymour Lawrence Collection.  Call Number:  PZ7 F438 Jo3 1968.

Angel Flores and Dudley Poore, eds.  Fiesta in November:  Stories from Latin America (Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942).  On cover:  “The Masterpieces of Latin-American Literature Hitherto Unavailable in English.”  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  PQ7087 E5 F4 1942.

Edouard Glissant.  Faulkner, Mississippi (New York:  Farrar, Staus and Giroux, 1999).  Translated from the French.  Novel of black author from Martinique who travels the U.S. South reflecting on the Mississippi author William Faulkner.  Written by a Martinique writer, poet, and literary critic.  Uncorrected proof.  Call Number:  PS3511 A86 Z7833513 1999b.

Warren Hampton, ed.  Angel Cuadra:  The Poet in Socialist Cuba (Gainesville:  University Press of Florida, 1994).  From the Edwin Bennett Ogden Collection.  Call Number:  PQ7389 C84 A6 1994.

Wilson Harris.  The Eye of the Scarecrow (London:  Faber, 1974).  Novel set in Guyana by an author born in British Guiana.  Inscribed to Bill Ferris by the author.  Call Number:  PR9320.9 H3.

Gerardo César Hurtado.  Selección de poemas (University, MS:  University of Mississippi, 1985).  Poetry published by Costa Rican author while a visiting professor at the University of Mississippi.  Signed by author.  Call Number:  PQ7489.2 H8 A1 1985.

George Lamming.  Season of Adventure (London:  Allison & Busby, 1979).  Novel set on a Caribbean island by an author born on Barbados.  Inscribed by author.  Call Number:  PR9230.9 L25 S4 1979.

Thomás Eloy Martínez.  Santa Evita (London:  Doubleday, 1997).  Novel from the Argentinian author on the life of Eva Perón.  From the Larry Brown Collection.  Call Number:  PQ7798.23 A692 S3513 1992.

Pablo Neruda.  Selected Poems (Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1990).  Bilingual edition of poems from the Chilean poet and diplomat who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.  From the Seymour Lawrence Collection.  Call Number:  PQ8097 N4 A28 1990.

New Black Writing:  Africa, West Indies, the Americas (Tulsa, OK:  University of Tulsa, 1977).  Nimrod series vol. 21, no. 2.  From the Sterling Plumpp Collection.  Call Number:  PN6068 N49 1977.

Elizabeth Nunez.  When Rock Dances (New York:  Putnam, 1986).  Fiction set in Trinidad and Tobago.  American author born in Trinidad.  Signed by author.  From the William Ferris Collection.  Call Number:  PS3564 U48 W46 1986.

Iris Lucille Patterson.  Look for Me in the Whirlwind (Quebec, Canada:  Bilongo Publishers, 1981).  Includes poems about Jamaica.  Inscribed to James Meredith by Oduno Tarik.  From the James Meredith Collection.  Call Number:  PR9265.9 P36 L6 1981.

Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz.  Los deshabitados (La Paz, Bolivia:  1957).  Inscribed by author to the University of Mississippi library with a reference about the Mississippi author William Faulkner and dated 1964.  A noted author and socialist political leader from Bolivia, Quiroga Santa Cruz won the 1964 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Los deshabitados.  Call Number:  PQ7819 Q47 D4.

José Eustasio Rivera.  The Vortex:  La Vorágine (New York:  G.P. Putnam, 1935).  Novel by Colombian author set in that country during the rubber boom.  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  PQ8179 R54 V713 1935.

Andrew Salkey.  Island Voices:  Stories from the West Indies (New York:  Liveright, 1970).  Short story collection by the co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement.  From the Sterling Plumpp Collection.  Call Number:  PR9215.5 E5 S3 1970.

Andrew Salkey.  Jamaica (London:  Hutchinson, 1973).  Poetry by the co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement.  Call Number:  PR9265.9 S2 J3.

[Selected poetry by six Columbian poets and one Spanish poet from the late 19^th century].  Works bound together into one volume:  El crimen de los alisos : historia de lágrimas : escrita en verso by José Maria Gutierrez de Alba (Bogota, Colombia:  Enrique Zalamea, 1879); El joven Arturo : poema  by Roberto MacDouall (Bogota, Colombia:  Medaro Rivas, 1883); Bienaventurados : los que lloran : poema by Federico Rivas Frade (Bogota, Colombia:  M. Rivas & Co., 1889); Fiestas populares en 1880 by Fabio (no publishing information); Los desgraciados by Julio Añez (Bogota, Colombia:  M. Rivas & Co., 1887); Bárbara Jaramillo : cuento infernal by Manuel Uribe Velazquez (Bogota, Colombia:  Diario de Cundinamarca, 1884); and El Vértigo : poema  by Gaspar Núñez de Arce (Madrid, Spain:  Mariano Murillo, 1885).  From the Herschel Brickell Collection.  Call Number:  PQ8174 S5.

Lewis E. Theiss.  The Mail Pilot of the Caribbean (Boston:  W.A. Wilde, 1934).  The author wrote boys adventure books in the early twentieth century, including this novel on a young junior pilot which flew passengers and mail service to and from South America.  Call Number:  PS3539 H415 M35 1934.

Philippe Thoby-Marcelin and Pierre Marcelin.  Canape-Vert (New York:  Toronto, Farrar & Rinehart, 1944).  Translated from the original French.  Authors were brothers from Haiti who wrote this “Prize winning novel, second Latin America contest.”  Call Number:  PQ3949 T45 C3 1944.

Charles Vallely.  Jorge Luis Borges:  A Catalogue of Unique Books and Manuscripts (Boston:  Lame Duck Books, 2003).  Borges was an acclaimed and influential writer from Argentina.  Call Number:  PQ7797 B635 Z94218 2003.