Honduras Telégrafos Nacionales
COLLECTION GUIDE
Prepared by Ruth Olivera, June 1981; revised by Devin Dittfurth, July
1998.
The collection consists of two sets of official handwritten telegrams
of the government of Honduras.
The first set, Folders 1 - 9, are all dated November 13, 1890. They
relate to developing events during the abortive revolt of General Longino
Sánchez, and consist of telegrams both to and from the president of
Honduras, General Luis Borgán, the president of Guatemala Manuel Lisandro
Barillas, and historian Rómulo E. Durón.
The second set, Folder 10 - 31, are dated April 30 to October 5, 1895.
They are comprised of reports and requests directed to the Ministro de
Gobernación in Tegucigalpa by various civil servants in provencial towns.
Mariano Guillén, Luis Rivera, and Tomás Carbajal in Trujillo are the
principal correspondents. While most of the telegrams are concerned with
government on the local level- the appointment of officials, their
salaries, relations between employees, incompetence in office, the
treatment of criminals, request for marriage permits, and attempts toward
the beautification of Trujillo- a few mention a meeting between the
presidents of Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador in Amapala, and specific
relations between Honduras and El Salvador.
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