Letters of Cortes to Emperor Charles V - Vol 1

by Francis Augustus MacNutt

 

 

Of this limited letterpress edition seven hundred and fifty copies have been printed, and the type has been distributed

Letters of Cortes

 

The Five Letters of Relation from Fernando
Cortes to the Emperor Charles V.

 

Translated, and Edited, with a Biographical Introduction
and Notes Compiled from Original Sources

 

By

Francis Augustus MacNutt

 

In Two Volumes

Volume One

 

G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1908

 

Copyright, 1908
by
FRANCIS AUGUSTUS MacNUTT

 

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

Chapters (not listed in original)

• Preface

CONTENTS
	page
Biographical Note:
early days	3
colonial life in cuba	8
the conqueror	25
marques del valle	52
Last Will and Testament of Fernando Cortes	77
Bibliographical Note	101
First Letter, July 10, 1519	123
Appendix 1 of the First Letter	175
Appendix 2 of the First Letter	177
Appendix 3 of the First Letter	179
Appendix 4 of the First Letter	181
Second Letter, October 30, 1520	185
Appendix 1 of the Second Letter	327
Appendix 2 of the Second Letter	330
Appendix 3 of the Second Letter	337
Appendix 4 of the Second Letter	340
Appendix 5 of the Second Letter	345
Appendix 6 of the Second Letter	349
Appendix 7 of the Second Letter	351

ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
Fernando Cortes	Frontispiece
From an Engraving by Ferdin Selma, after the Painting by Titian
Cortes Coat-of-Arms	On cover
Plan of Mexico — Tenochtitlan		188
From Conquista de Mexico, vol. iv., by Orozco y Berra
The Wall of Tlascala,		200
From Storia Antica del Messico, vol. ii., by Clavigero