Catalog record: 2022-038-0011<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nSummary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The topic from the letter is that Miguel Hernandez, went into the army and was communicating with his friend, Manuel Sandoval, that he shouldn’t send any more cards to his original address because he is going to move to Morelia (Mexico) for new job opportunities and to lay low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Transcription<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
M\u00e9xico distrito federal a 18 del presen-
te, mes de 1932 Se\u00f1or M. Sandoval
mi muy estimado hermano
la presente sirve para saludarte
cari\u00f1osamente en compan\u00eda
de tu a presiable esposa y dese-
\u00e1ndoles que se encuentren
buenos y gozen de Cabal. Salud
como son mis deseos pues
hermano despu\u00e9s de saludarte
Cari\u00f1osamente te digo lo siguie-
nte doy contestaci\u00f3n a tu
Carta que recib\u00ed con fecha
catorce del presente en la cual
me dices que me tienes ropa
para mand\u00e1rmela pero que
no tienes ahorita para mand\u00e1-
rmela, pues me dices que si yo
tengo pues hermano yo no tengo<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Con ee hecho de que no tengo
trabajo no tengo dinero pues te-
sale muy caro por los derechos
que tienes que pagar pues
si no tienes hermano mi modo
cuando tengas el modo me man
das algo porque estoy muy
necesitado tambi\u00e9n te digo
hermano que ya no me escri-
vas al mismo domicillio
porque pienso irme para<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Morelia, porque aqu\u00ed no hay
nada de trabajo, yo me voy
a ir en los troques de la Comi-
si\u00f3n de caminos, ah\u00ed me van a hacer
el favor de llevarme, ya voy a
vender una cobija para
los gastos en el camino
as\u00ed es, que no me
contestes hasta que yo te<\/p>\n\n\n\n
escriba, menos a este domicilio
no me vuelvas a escribir
hasta que yo te diga a d\u00f3nde
me has de contestar y di lo que
me dices, que porque
no quiero que me escribas
a mi nombre, pues no te digo
que as\u00ed tengo mi baja
en el ej\u00e9rcito y por lo mis-
mo si me pongo mi nombre
no me sirve de nada
y yo no quiero, porque de nada
me sirve haber trabajado tanto
para que ma\u00f1ana o pasado,quieran
meter a uno de soldado
a fuerzas, ya tiene uno con qui\u00e9n
comprobar, y es cu\u00e1nto
te dice tu hermano que ver te
desea mejor que escribirte
Hermenejildo Sandoval
y Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Translation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Mexico Federal District on the 18th of this
month of 1932, Mr. M Sandoval
,my very dear brother,
the present serves to greet you
affectionally in company of
your precious wife and
wishing that you guys are
well and have good health,
those are my wishes for you,
brother. After greeting you
affectionately, I tell you in the following
I am answering your
letter that I recieved with the date
fourteenth of this month in which
you tell me that you have clothes
to send me but that
you don’t right now,
then you tell me that if I
have well brother, I haven’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the fact that I don’t have
a job, I don’t have money, so it
is very expensive to pay the fees
that you must pay. Well,
if you don’t have the money, oh well!
when you have a way to pay, send me
something because I am
in dire need as well. I ask you
brother, not to write me
at the same address.
because I am planning to leave to
Morelia, because there aren’t any jobs
I am leaving in the trucks of the road commision.
There, they are going to do me
the favor of taking me to sell
a blanket for
expenses along the way
is that, that you do not
answer to me until I tell you
write less to this adress
do not write me again
until I tell you where
you have to answer me and say what
you tell me that because
I do not want to write to me
to my name because I do not tell you
so I have my dischange
in the army and so If I put my name on it
it’s no use to me
and I don’t want it because nothing
it serves me to have worked so much
so that tomorrow or the next day they want
to put a soldier
forces you already have one with whom
to check and it is how much
your brother tells you to see
wants better than to write
Hermenejildo Sandoval
and Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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One of the most compelling archival sources for understanding immigration in Madison County is the collection of letters sent to Manuel Sandoval, a migrant laborer who came to Edwardsville from Mexico. The letters are handwritten in cursive, in a style of Spanish that is both informal and somewhat dated. As part of the project, Professor Heidy Cuervo’s Advanced Spanish class transcribed and translated some of the letters. The transcriptions have lightly corrected the original text for spelling errors and standardizations. You can also view the original ten letters at the Madison County Historical Society’s Archival Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-125","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/madcocrossroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}