Vicente Llorens Collection of Blanco White Family Materials, 1713-1930 (mostly 1798-1841)

Contents and Arrangement

Series 1: Works by José María Blanco White, 1206-1840 October 2

2 boxes

Description:

Consists of the works of José María Blanco White, including "Traducciín de la autobiografía de Don José María Blanco White," notes for sermons, plays, and others.

4 boxes

1 folder

Critique of the Introduction (On Ancient and Modern Tragedy) to a Translation of Oedipus, the King by a "Mr. Estala", undated

1 folder

A Speech on Peace Delivered to the Real Audiencia de Sevilla, undated

1 folder

Series 3: Correspondence, 1715 February 28-1957 June 19

5 boxes

Description:

Consists of the correspondence of the Blanco White Family.

Consists of the documents of José María Blanco White, Fernando Blanco White, and Guillermo Blanco White y Nangle and Guillermo Blanco White y Morrogh, as well as family documents.

2 boxes

Description:

Consists of account documents, including accounts on the admission of María Blanco y Crespo as a nun, account book of Fernando Blanco White, and the account book of the execution of Fernando Blanco White's Last Will, as well as others.

1 box

1 folder

2 Curricula Vitae of Juan Vera y Crespo, 1791 December 3

1 folder

Official Forms for the Use of Guillermo White as British Vice-Consul of Seville, undated

1 folder

Series 7: Additional Papers, 1730-1838 May 25

1 box

Description:

Consists of the poems, correspondence, and documents of other persons, largely of the Blanco White family.

1 folder

Scope and Contents

Consists of manuscripts related to four generations of the Blanco White family, spanning two centuries: works, diaries, correspondence, documents, accounts and expense records, and printed material. Joseph Blanco White, the Spanish-English writer and religious figure, remains the focus of the collection; however, his brother Fernando, a politician and intellectual of 19th-century Seville, also accounts for a substantial part of the material.

Included are autograph manuscripts of several of Joseph's literary efforts-- Cartas Sobre España (novel first published in English in 1822), Luisa De Bustamante (unfinised novel, 1839-1840), "Reader, thou look'st upon a barren page..." (poem, 1837); Fernando's diaries (1808-1814, 1817, 1820-1829, 1834-1848), which document daily activities in 19th-century Spain; correspondence, particularly by and to Joseph, Fernando, and their father, Guillermo, showing the development of Joseph's political and religious ideas, Fernando's ambitions, and family affairs; and academic, ecclesiastical, municipal, and legal documents that support Joseph and Fernando's various careers.

Also included are 19th-century Spanish school exercises, sermons, and prayers, and family birth, wedding, and death certificates, as well as other genealogical material relating to the Blanco White family.

Collection Creator Biography:

White

Blanco White, José María (Seville, 1775 - Liverpool, 1841)

On arriving in Andalusia from Ireland, William White (father) changed his surname to Blanco White; that name was used interchangeably with Blanco y Crespo (surnames of his parents) by the author (son). José María Blanco White was one of the leading writers of Spanish Romanticism and also a controversial figure because of the political and religious positions he assumed throughout his life. His religious conviction changed from Catholicism to a Christian faith without a church. This last professed faith he described when dying as one that "theologues don't understand."

During his life in Spain he held various religious positions: as a priest, as rector in the Colégio Mayor, and as magistrado de la Capilla Real de San Fernando in the Cathedral of Sevilla (1804). Nominated Preceptor of the Infante Don Francisco de Paula, he held the post for only a short period because he lost the favor of Prime Minister Godoy. As editor of Elsemanário patriotico (1808-1809) he inflated articles in favor of the independence of Spain and on the corruption of the court. As a result he was considered "persona non grata" by the Junta Suprema de España Indias and emigrated to England, where he arrived March 3, 1810.

He founded El Español (London, 1810-1813) to crusade against Spanish colonialism, though he continually stated in its pages that "America would never rebel if the ill administration of the mother country wouldn't compel them."

In 1822 his successful book Letters from Spain appeared under the pen name Don Leucádio Dolblado. This book established his reputation in England, where he was befriended by Southey, Lord Holland, J. S. Mill and Mrs. Hemans.

In 1826 having received a M.A. degree from Oxford University for literary and economic reasons, he left London for Oxford. While living in Oxford, Blanco defected in 1835 from the Anglican church, he settled in Liverpool in the 1830's and there became a Unitarian. During this period he published his famous Observations on Heresy and Orthodoxy (London, J. Mardon, 1835) which tried to explain his doubts and faith.

The London Review requested him to prepare a series of articles about literary figures--a commission he accepted. Between 1835-36 he wrote about Martínez de la Rosa, Crabble, Guizot, Lamb, and Godoy. In 1839 (for no apparent reason) he resumed writing in Spanish, poetry and the unfinished novel Luísa de Bustamante published in Revista de Ciencias literatura y artes by D. José Blanco-White y Olloqui (his nephew). In 1840 he resumed writing in English, producing the work "Plain Dialogues on Religion" published after his death as Plain Dialogues on Religion by the Author of the Poor Man's Preservative against Popery. In February 1841, paralyzed and unable to write, he was transported to Greenbank, the Liverpool house of his friend William Rathbone, where he died on 20 May 1841.

Notes on the Blanco White Family Tree

Don Guillermo White y Nangle and his two brothers Thomas and Pablo were the first ones from the White family for Durbin and Waterford, Ireland, to move to Sevilla, Spain, in the beginning of the 18th century.

Tomas Cahill became partner of Don Guillermo Blanco White y Morrogh in 1786.

In 1802 Lucas Beck, Doña María Fernanda White, Cahill's widow in her name and her daughter's name and Don Guillermo White formed a new business company. Later Don Lucas Beck married D. María Cahill y White.

Don Guillermo Blanco (alas White y Morrogh) following the death of Tomás Cahill moved to Alcala in 1800 to escape the yellow fever plague, leaving Lucas Beck in charge of the business firm.

The uncle of Doña Gertrudis Crespo y Neve was Don Felipe de Neve Noguera Castro y Figueroa, governor of California and the founder of its city of Los Angeles.

Don Fernando Blanco White was the legitimized son of Don José María Blanco White and Magdalena Esquaya. Educated in England by his father, he later became an officer in the Indies.

Dona Ana Gabriela White y Morrogh was known in the family as "Tia Anica."

Acquisition:: Princeton professor Vicente Llorens, an authority on Blanco White, collected the manuscripts in this collection while working on a biography of this author.
Appraisal: No appraisal information is available.

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Bibliography: José María Blanco White - Antologia de Obras en Español - Edícion de Vicente Llorens. Barcelona, Edirorial Labor, 1971. Vida e Obras de José María Blanco y Crespo by D. Mário Medex Bejarano. Madrid: Revista de Archivos, Bibliotecas y Museos, Olzága, 1920. Obra Inglesa de José María Blanco White, con un prólogo de Juan Goytisolo. Bareclona, Editorial Seix Barral, 1974. The Life of the Rev. Joseph Blanco White- written by himself with portions of his correspondence. Edited by John Hamilton Thom. London: John Chapman.
Subject Terms:: Authors, Spanish. -- 19th century
Brothers -- Spain. -- 19th century
Family -- Spain. -- 19th century
Fiction. -- 19th century
Romanticism -- Spain. -- 19th century
Women -- Spain -- Social conditions. -- 19th century
Genre Terms:: Account books. -- 19th century
Birth certificates -- Spain. -- 18th century
Death certificates -- Spain. -- 19th century
Diaries -- 19th century
Marriage licenses -- Spain. -- 19th century
Military passes. -- 19th century
Prayers -- Spain. -- 19th century
Sermons, Spanish. -- 19th century
Names:: Blanco White, Fernando
Places:: Seville (Spain) -- Intellectual life. -- 19th century
Spain -- History -- Napoleonic conquest, 1808-1813. -- Sources

Series 1: Works by José María Blanco White, 1206-1840 October 2

Cartas sobre España por Don Leucadio Doblado (pseud.), 1798-1808

Traducción de la autobiografía de Don José María Blanco White" (Oxford), 1830

"Reader, thou look'st upon a barren page." Poem, 1837 September 18

1-6: Notes from a Book on Ancient and Modern Tragedy (in French and Spanish), undated

7-12: Chapters 16 to 27 of Book on Roman History from 314 to 395 A.D., undated

Four Chapters of Narration of a Voyage from Bremen to Philadelphia (Translated into Spanish), circa 1796

Sermons, 1800-1802

1: On Christian Perfection, 1800

2: "Similie est regnum caelorum thesauro absconito in agro ..." (On St. Benedict, incomplete), 1800

3: "Quicumque voluerit inter vos maior fieri, sit vester minister;..." (On Humility), 1800

4: "Expedit vobis est unus ...", 1800

5: "Et cum egredetur de templo ...", 1800

6: "Plática para la Sexagésima de 1802." (Seville) . 10 leaves, 1802

7: Sermon for Holy Thursday. (Seville), 1802

8: "Sermón para el Miércoles de la semana de Quaresma. Sobre la incredulidad.", 1800

9: "Invocavit Altissium potentem in oppugnando inimicos.", 1800

10: "Iam enim conspiraverant ..." (Sobre las pasiones. Ante hombres de leyes. (Seville?), 1800

11: "Apuntaciones para un sermón de Misión preparando a la Comunion dispuesto para finalizarla", 1800

12: "Quousque animam nostram tollis?", undated

Luisa de Bustamente, o la huérfana español en Inglaterra. Novel, undated

Poetry (probably by Mariano Blanco), 1839 February 10-1840 October 2

"Durante una Tormenta: Reflexiones nocturnas en alta Mar" (Liverpool), 1839 November 15

"Escena y Diálogo, en un Navío incendiado" (Liverpool), 1839 February 10

"Al Joven Don Joes María Blanco White y Olloqui; su tío parerno Don José María Blanco White: de Liverpool", 1840 January 26

"La Voluntariedad y el Deseo resignado" (Liverpool), 1840 January 28

"A su sobrina Dna. Maria Ana Bech, que le había pedido unos versos para su Album" (Liverpool), 1840 January 29

"A un Teólogo Glotón, Diálogo" (Liverpool), 1840 January 29

"La Persecución Religiosa", 1840 January 30

"Poder del Recuerdo de mi amigo Lista, escrito en medio de un gran dolor y abatimiento la maéana oct. 2 de 1840 en Liverpool", 1840 October 2

"La Revelación Interna. Soneto" (Liverpool), 1840 February 3

"Recuerdos y Esperanzas, Redondillas" (Liverpool), 1840 February 5

"Traducción de un pasaje del Twelfth Night de Shakespeare", 1840 February 7

Theater, 1803-1830

Hermina y Leonato, o la Ley Ripuaria, undated

"Prospecto y Plan de una clase de Humanidades que establece la Real Sociedad de Sevilla", undated

Letter Arguing the Importance of Latin in a Literary Education, circa 1803

Address on Poetry at Inauguration of the Real Sociedad Patriotica de Sevilla's Literature Course (?), 1830

Notes for Sermons, undated

1: "la. homiliasobre el sermón del Monte Desde el v. 1 hasta el 12 del c. 5 de Sn. Mateo", undated

1a: "Sobre la penitencia extreior e interior", undated

2: "Sint lumbri: vestri precincti,...", undated

2a: "Sed quia haec locutus...", undated

3: "Nolumus vos ignorare de dormientibus...", undated

4: "Homo quidam fecit coenam magnam...", undated

5: "Mulier innupta et virgo..." (crossed out), undated

6: "Tu quis es?", undated

7: " Nolite communicare operibus...", undated

8: "... exerceatur. Si la necesidad...", undated

9: " Omnis vallis implebitur..." (partly crossed out), undated

10: "...ley de Cristo much m±s ardua..." (continuation of 9), undated

11: Pater, quos dedisti mihi volo, ut...", undated

12: " Mihi autem absit gloriari nisi in Cruce Domini nostri J.C...", undated

13: " Numquid omnes Apostoli? Numquid omnes Prophetae?", undated

14: " In Mundo erat et Mundus per ipsum factus est...", undated

15: " Fili serva legem meam, quasi pupillam oculi...", undated

16: " Cum dilexisset suos qui erant in Mundo in finem dilexit...", undated

17: "De la languidez, y tibieza", undated

18: " Sinite utraque crescere...", undated

19: "Sobre la perfección Cristiana", undated

20: "Sobre el fin del Religioso", undated

21: " Mortui enim estis, et vita vestra est abscondita cum Christo in Deo", undated

Spanish Translations and Abridgements of the Books of Genesis and 2 Maccabees, undated

T1: "Párrafo lo: El Mundo es criado, el hombre y la mujer son formados", undated

T2r: "Párrafo 2o: Pecado y castigo de los primeros Padres", undated

T2v: Continuation of page 2r, undated

T3r: "Par. 3o: Caín mata a su hermano Abel", undated

T3v: Continuation of 3r "Párrafo 4o: Perversidad de los hombres. Diluvio, Alianza de Dios con Noé.", undated

T4r: Continuation of 3v, undated

T4v: Continuation of 4r, undated

T5r: "Párrafo 5o: La Torre de Babel."; "Párrafo 6o: Abraham llamándolo Dios va a la tierra de Canaan.", undated

T5v: Continuation of 5r; "Párrafo 7o: Loth se separa de Abrahan", undated

T6r: "Párrafo 8o: Nueva promesa de multiplicar la prole de Abrahan."; "Párrafo 9o: Angeles recibidos en hospedaje por Abrahan, y Loth.", undated

T6v: Continuation of 6r; "Párrafo 10o: Abrahan prepara inmolar a su hijo Isaac.", undated

T7r: Continuation of 6v, undated

T7v: "Párrafo 11o: Eliezer conduce a Isaac su mujer Rebecca", undated

T8r: Continuation of 7v, undated

T8v: Continuation of 8r, undated

T9r: "Párrafo lo: Piedad del sumo pontifice Onias y perfidia de Simón.", undated

T9v: "Párrafo 2o: Heliodoro es embiado a hurtar los tesoros del templo.", undated