The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 52, 1841-1898 / Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

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DOCUMENTS OF 1841–1898

• [Internal political condition of the Philippines]. Sinibaldo de Mas; 1842.
• [Matta’s report]. Juan Manuel de la Matta; February 25, 1843.
• [The Philippines, 1860–1898: some comment and bibliographical notes]. James A. LeRoy; 1907.
• [Events in Filipinas, 1841–1872]. [Summarized from Montero y Vidal.]
• [Constitution of the Liga Filipina]. José Rizal; July 3, 1892.
• [The friar memorial of 1898]. Manuel Gutierrez, O.S.A., and others; April 21, 1898.

Sources: The first of these documents, the rare volume iii of Mas’s Informe, is obtained from a typewritten copy furnished by Epifanio de los Santos from the printed original in his possession; the second, from an unpublished MS. in the possession of T. H. Pardo de Tavera, who furnished to the Editors a typewritten copy of it; the third is written especially for this series by James A. LeRoy; the fourth is summarized from volume iii of Montero y Vidal’s Historia de Filipinas; the fifth is obtained from a copy, furnished by E. de los Santos, of Rizal’s original MS.; the sixth, from James A. LeRoy’s copy of one of the printed originals, revised by a printed copy belonging to the Madrid edition.

Translations: All these documents (outside of the third) are translated by James Alexander Robertson.