MANUSCRITOS.- VILLA URRUTIA, D. Wenceslau Ramirez, Marquês de.- Correspndência diplomática e ...

MANUSCRITOS.- VILLA URRUTIA, D. Wenceslau Ramirez, Marquês de.- Correspndência diplomática e particular.- Séculos XIX e XX (1893 a 1933).- Cerca de 200 documentos.
Wenceslau Ramirez de Villa Urrutia, Spanish historian, diplomat and politician, born in La Habana (Cuba). An outstanding personality in Spanish political and cultural life, he was minister plenipotentiary in Constantinople, Athens Brussels, ambassador in Vienna, London, Rome and Paris; life senator and minister of state (Alfonso XII, 1905); member of the Royal Academy of History; awarded in 1913 with the title of Marquis de Villa Urrutia. Sets of approximately 200 documents, including 164 autograph and typewritten letters, addressed to D. Wenceslau, dealing with diplomatic and state affairs, some of which are equally private and reserved. We highlight the documents emanating from the following institutions and personalities: 1 - El Presidente del Consejo de Ministers (19 letters); 2 - El Ministro y Subsecretario of State (32); 3 - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lisbon (7); 4 - Private Secretariat of H.M., Madrid (8); 5 - Senate (4); 6 - Embajada de España cerca de la Santa Sede (6); 7- Deputados à Corte (6); 8 - El Ministro de Gracia y Justicia (6), etc. Other institutions represented: Embajada de España en Italia, Brasil e Paris (on the visit of the King of Spain to France in 1905); Legación de España en Washington, San Salvador, Constantinople, Hendaya, etc. The set also includes numerous private letters, sometimes difficult to identify, sent from various hotels in Europe, telegrams and some drafts. We also highlight: a set of 16 documents referring to the knighthood of the Order of Isabel the Catholic, attributed to the Portuguese António de Oliveira Calem; three letters on the fishing agreement in the River Minho (1898); etc., etc. Set of undeniable interest for the diplomatic history of Spain, especially for the period corresponding to the first third of the 20th century, placed inside two iron-locked covers with micas, with most of the documents identified and organized by entities and personalities.
Notes: Wenceslau Ramirez de Villa Urrutia, Spanish historian, diplomat and politician, born in La Habana (Cuba). An outstanding personality in Spanish political and cultural life, he was plenipotentiary minister in Constantinople, Athens, Brussels, ambassador to Vienna, London, Rome and Paris; life senator and minister of state (Alfonso XII, 1905); member of the Royal Academy of History; awarded in 1913 with the title of Marquis de Villa Urrutia.