... in Mexico City during August 1685, and located today in Archivo General de Indias (Sevilla), Patronato 31, ramo 8. In the introduction to his edition of the Diary, Mathes surveys seaborne exploration of Baja California in the 1500s as well as attempts to settle the peninsula during the first seven decades...

...Jane De Grummond Sir Robert Ker Porter’s Caracas Diary, 1825-1842. A British Diplomat in a Newborn Nation . Edited by Dupouy Walter . Caracas , 1966 . Editorial Arte . Illustrations. Notes. Glossaries. Bibliography. Indices . Pp. cxii , 1305 . $20.00 . Copyright 1968 by Duke...

...Frances Kellam Hendricks Wenceslaus Linck’s Diary of His 1766 Expedition to Northern Baja California . Translated and edited by Burrus Ernest J. . Los Angeles , 1966 . Dawson’s Book Shop . Baja California Travel Series . Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 115...

... not denigrating. Anderson faithfully described the contemporary scene about him. These descriptions are a welcome addition to the not overly abundant literature on Gran Colombia in the 1820s. There is also a modicum of fresh material for those interested in the early period of Pan Americanism. The diary...

...A. M. The Condor and the Cows, A South American Travel Diary . By Isherwood Christopher . Frontispiece and illustrations by Caskey William . ( New York : Random House , 1948 . Pp. 217 . Illus., endpaper map . $3.50 .) Copyright 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 ...

... breath. 43 Rivera exhibited a number of merits in addition to those which have appeared in this account. His generosity to the underpaid soldiers finds few parallels in Spanish colonial history. In his diary we find long lists of loans ranging from 3 to 44 pesos each. 44 Most of them were never...

...James Nelson Goodsell Chile’s Days of Terror: Eyewitness Accounts of the Military Coup . Edited by White Judy . Introduction by Yglesias José . New York , 1974 . Pathfinder Press . Illustrations . Pp. 124 . Paper. $1.75 . Diary of a Chilean Concentration Camp...

...Charles F. Walker The Diary of Heinrich Witt . 10 vols. Edited by Mücke Ulrich . Leiden, Netherlands : Brill , 2016 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Index. clxxxiv, 7,014 pp. Cloth , $1,423.00 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Born near Hamburg...

... underscore the Unedited Diaries ’ limited appeal. As a work of literature, the book is flawed by the editors’ commitment to present Carolina’s writing in its natural state by preserving her many grammatical errors and disorienting digressions. These features have historical significance, but they make...

... in the social fabric of Texas, and his diary provides extensive passages on Native Americans, Tejanos, Anglo settlers, squatters, and characters attracted to the challenging physical environment but loose hand of government. Geographically, the diary covers the Rio Grande valley, Mexican settlements in Béxar...

...H. I. P. With the First City Troop on the Mexican border, being the diary of a trooper . By Brooke George 3D . ( Philadelphia : The John C. Winston Co. , 1917 . Pp. 166 . Illustrated .) Watching and waiting on the border . By Batchelder Roger . With an introduction...

...Lidia Santos I’m Going to Have a Little House: The Second Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus . By de Jesus Carolina Maria . Translated by Arrington Melvin S. Jr. and Levine Robert M. . Engendering Latin America , vol. 4 . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1997...

..., and dourly conservative—every year he recorded the anniversary of Louis XVI's execution—he was a dutiful family man who accepted with resignation an unhappy marriage and fractious relations with his children. The diaries offer a fascinating portrait of how he, born and educated in France, came to regard...

...Paul S. Lietz The introductory sketch of the Mexican War is not altogether satisfactory to a student of Mexican history. The notes are helpful to those interested in the military record of the War. The diary shows Tennery to have been a sensitive, articulate man reacting with perception...

... a major force at the January 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana. In November of that year, he joined the guerrilla cadre he had inserted into the Bolivian altiplano, and he kept a diary during the ten-month effort to implant a revolution. Betrayed in the field, captured, and executed in October 1967...

...William H. Ellison A Doctor Comes to California: The Diary of John S. Griffin, Assistant Surgeon with Kearny’s Dragoons, 1846-1847 . Edited with Introduction by Ames George Wallcott Jr. ( San Francisco : California Historical Society , 1943 . Pp. 97 .) Copyright 1945 by Duke...

...George W. Ames, Jr. Diary & Letters of Josiah Gregg: Excursions in Mexico & California, 1847-1850 . Edited by Fulton Maurice Garland . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1944 . Pp. xvii , 396 . Maps, illustrations, and documentary facsimiles . $3.50 .) Copyright...

...Thomas F. McGann William Henry Hudson’s Diary Concerning his Voyage from Buenos Aires to Southhampton on the “Ebro” from April 1, 1874 to May 3, 1874 Written to his Brother Albert Merriam Hudson . Notes by Casares Jorge Dr. . Foreword by West Herbert Faulkner . Hanover, N. H...

...Mariano Picón Salas Caracas Diary 1835-1840 . By Williamson John G. A. . Edited by Grummond Jane Lucas de . Baton Rouge , 1954 . Camellia Publishing Co. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xxxiv, 444 . $10 . Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 ...

...Fulmer Mood Overland to California on the Southwestern Trail, 1849: Diary of Robert Eccleston . Edited by Hammond George P. and Howes Edward H. . [ Bancroft Library Publications, No. 2 .] ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1950 . Pp. xvii , 256 . Frontispiece...