Papers of Demetrio Delgado de Torres(1900-1984), Undersecretary of the Spanish Ministry of the Treasury during the period of the Civil War and personal advisor to Juan Negrin, president of the Spanish Republic. The materials, written mostly in Spanish, cover the period from 1939 to 1946 and include hand written and typed notes primarily concerning economic conditions in Spain during the Civil War. Also included are materials relating to Juan Negrin, including texts of speeches, magazine articles, and telegrams.
Demetrio Delgado de Torres Papers, 1939-1946 (MSS 15)
Extent: 1.2 Linear feet (3 archives boxes)
Demetrio Delgado de Torres (1900-1984) was Undersecretary of the Spanish Ministry of the Treasury during the period of the Civil War. He was on the side of the Republicans and served as personal advisor to Juan Negrin (1892-1956), Prime Minister of the Spanish Republic. Negrin was also the physician for the Delgado family. During the Civil War, Delgado de Torres was responsible for the procurement of war materials, for the transfer of Republican funds to Paris, for the shipment of papers of the Spanish Republicans to Mexico on the yacht Vega in 1939, and for the transfer of gold to Russia.
After the defeat of the Spanish Republicans, Demetrio Delgado lived in exile in New York City, where he died on December 23, 1984.
The papers of Demetrio Delgado de Torres were stored in the basement of the New York apartment house where the family lived. When the building's pipes broke the papers were damaged by water. As a result, many of the materials are unreadable, and all are in a deteriorated condition. Due to this situation, the entire collection has been photocopied and the copies have been inserted next to the originals. The papers were obtained from Miguel Delgado de Torres, Demetrio's son, by UCSD history professor Dr. Gabriel Jackson. Most of the materials are part of a diary, written in Spanish by Demetrio Delgado between 1939 and 1946. He may have been planning to use the diary as the basis of a thesis at the New School for Social Research (New York). Except for materials in folder 1, which contains papers related to Dr. Juan Negrin, the rest of the collection largely concerns the economic conditions in Spain during the Civil War, 1936-1939.
Arranged in three series: 1) JUAN NEGRIN MATERIALS, 2) UNPUBLISHED ARTICLES, and 3) NOTES.