Letter from Anastasio Bustamante, Vice President of the United States of Mexico to Andres de Santa Cruz y Calahumana, President of the Republic of Bolivia, September 30, 1830 Funding for the creation of this digitized text is provided by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.Bustamante, Anastasio, 1780-1853 Creation of digital images: Center for Digital Scholarship, Rice University Creation of translation: Cecilia Bonnor Conversion to TEI-conformant markup: Lily Elise McKeage, Student Researcher, Humanities Research Center Parsing and proofing: Humanities Research Center and Fondren Library, Rice University Subject analysis and assignment of taxonomy terms: Robert Estep, Cataloger Rice University Houston, Texas 2010-06-07 aa00010tr

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 Page images of the original document are included. Images exist as archived TIFF files, JPEG versions for general use, and thumbnail GIFs. This document is an English translation of the "Carta de Anastasio Bustamente, el Vicepresidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos a Andres de Santa Cruz y Calahumana, Presidente de la Republica de Bolivia, 30 septiembre, 1830." Translated by Cecilia Bonnor. The language of the original document is Spanish. Carta de Anastasio Bustamante, el Vice presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos a Andres de Santa Cruz y Calahumana, Presidente de la Republica de Bolivia, 30 de septiembre 1830 Bustamante, Anastasio, 1780-1853September 30, 1830 Americas collection, 1811-1920, MS 518, Box 4 folder 12, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University. Contact info: woodson@rice.eduThe Humanities Research Center at Rice University, under the direction of Dr. Caroline Levander, purchased this material from a manuscripts dealer in 2005. The Gilder Foundation funded the development of the physical archive. Original materials are housed at the Woodson Research Center, Rice University.Handwritten document, 2pp. Signed document by A. Bustamante and by the Secretary of Foreign Relations, Lucas Alaman y Escalada. Bustamante assures the country of Bolivia, which had recently acquired its own independence from Spain, that Mexico and Bolivia's futures are largely interwoven.

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 Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus Library of Congress Subject Headings Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names English Correspondence Bolivia--Politics and government--19th centuryMexico--Politics and government--19th centuryMexico. President (1837-1839: Bustamante) Mexico (nation)Bolivia (nation) Lorena Gauthereau-Bryson2009 EditedConverted from P4 to P5 In exercising his executive power, the Vice President of the United States of Mexico hereby offers greetings to the President of the Republic of Bolivia.

The series of successful events that have occurred in this Republic since the 4th to the 23rd of December of 8291829 will serve to inform Your Excellency by way of the correspondence that I have instructed the Secretary of State and the Office of Domestic and Foreign Affairs to send to those same offices in your country. As Vice President, I have been called upon to exercise executive power in accordance with the dictates of our fundamental law. As a result of the foregoing, on the 1st of January of this year, during which time the same law states that the general congress must be in session, I have assumed the duties that I exercise at present.

My first task was to inform you of Mexico’s neighboring Republics, whose interests are so similar as to require a close relationship. Similarly, the large distances and the lack of communication between this nation and Bolivia have delayed the establishment of closer ties, the development of which I have greatly desired with much satisfaction.

This objective will be achieved if the United States of Mexico and that Republic develop a close relationship. Indeed such a relationship would be mutually beneficial for both countries and I am passionately committed to the achievement of this objective.

May Your Excellency acknowledge the sincerity of my optimistic sentiments due to the prosperity of that Republic as well as the affirmations of my very distinguished and true friendship.

Given in the Federal Palace of Mexico on the thirtieth of September of eighteen hundred thirty. AnastasioAnasto BustamenteBustamte Lucas Alaman