C-A 29 · Departmental State Papers, Tomos IV

Volume 29 of the Archives of California (BANC MSS C-A, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley); Thomas Savage’s 1876–77 copies of the Spanish/Mexican-era government records of Alta California. The originals burned in 1906; these transcripts are the sole record. ← Search the full catalog · All volumes
Records364
Span1835–1841
Leaves284
Coveragecomplete (scan)
Scan completeness: 2 leaves of this volume (stamps 255, 263) are physically absent from the Internet Archive scan itself and can appear in no record. "Coverage: complete" means complete against the scan, not against the manuscript volume. The absent leaves are registered in the corrections file; the register is a floor, not a census. The originals burned in 1906, so this content is recoverable only from the physical volume at the Bancroft.
Coverage: 1835–1839, item-level complete (Docs 1–241). ⚠ UPGRADED 2026-08-02 (published c49ffac1): the 1838–39 Alvarado-era register tail n202–n283 — previously marquee-SWEPT — is now fully item-read (gap-read audit); 105→232 records live. Front n1–n122 (Docs 1–96) + n123–201 civil-war letters + tail n202–283 all item-read; the Supreme-Orders index / military order-book / 1835-dossier re-copy (D97–100, n123–174) remain intentionally register-bounded. Marquee tail finds: Vallejo's 13 Nov 1839 'el País marcha á su ruina' letter, Chief Solano's 80-Indian Monterey request, San José 1838–39 electors. 2 double-scans (n66=Sav70, n93=Sav96); scan→Savage offset drifts +1→+5, cite the printed red Savage page. Bounds verified by the 2026-07-27 sampling audit. (“partial” = routine runs bounded, not itemized; significant documents are.)

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