Anthony Ganilh Collection: Alternative Voices in Early 19th Century Texas/Mexico Borderlands

Title

Anthony Ganilh Collection: Alternative Voices in Early 19th Century Texas/Mexico Borderlands

Subject

Texas Mexico/Borderlands

Description

A collection of items dedicated to alternative political and cultural voices in the Texas/Mexico Borderlands in the early 19th century.

Creator

Ganilh, Anthony

Source

P. W. Grayson, Vice Unmasked, an Essay: Being a Consideration of the Influence of Law Upon the Moral Essence of Man, with Other Reflections (New York: George H. Evans, 1830); Anthony Ganilh, Southern Liberty, A Satire and other Poems (New York: s.p., 1834); Antonio [Anthony] Ganilh to José María Luis Mora, July 20, 1835, José María Luis Mora Papers, 1795-1856, Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; Anthony Ganilh [pseud. A. T. Myrthe], Ambrosio de Letinez or the First Texian Novel, Embracing a Description of the Countries Bordering on the Rio Bravo, with Incidents of the War of Independence (New York: Charles Francis & Co., 1842); Anthony Ganilh [pseud. A Texian], Mexico Versus Texas, a Descriptive Novel, Most of the Characters of which Consist of Living Persons (Philadelphia: N. Siegfried, 1838); Black Scapular of the Passion, Private Collection of Colton De Los Santos.

Publisher

George H. Evans; Anthony Ganilh; Benson Latin American Collection; Charles Francis & Co.; N. Siegfried.

Date

1830-c. 2026

Contributor

De Los Santos, Colton, ed.

Rights

Public Domain or these physical resources were made available by the Benson Collection at the University of Texas at Austin for the purposes of research, teaching, and private study.

Language

Spanish, English, Latin.

Type

Printed material, manuscripts, devotional article.

Collection Items

July 20 ,1835, Letter of Fr. Anthony Ganilh to Fr. José María Luis Mora
A July 20, 1835, letter of French-American novelist, academic, and priest, Anthony Ganilh, to the Mexican Liberal ideologist José María Luis Mora. The letter's contents detail the state of the clergy of Kentucky, the failure of Ganilh's novel, and…

Selection from Anthony Ganilh's Ambrosio de Letinez
Description of an Indigenous woman acting as a religious and medical practitioner in 19th-century Texas/Mexico Borderlands.

Selection from Anthony Ganilh's Mexico Versus Texas
Description of Mexican Borderlands folk devotions to los santos de la casa.

Title page of Ganilh's Southern Liberty
Title page of Fr. Anthony Ganilh's collection of abolitionist poetry and other poems.

Title page of P. W. Grayson's Vice Unmasked
Title page of the anarchist manifesto of the Attorney General of the Republic of Texas and later presidential candidate Peter W. Grayson

Title page of Ambrosio de Letinez, vol. 1.
Title page of Fr. Anthony Ganilh's ethnographic novel of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands.

Catholic Devotional Scapular of the Passion
A contemporary version of a devotional scapular emerged in the 13th century and remains popular among members of lay third religious orders.

Ganilh's description of the Mexican Inquisition
Description of the Mexican Inquisition in Anthony Ganilh's Mexico Versus Texas
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