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CONTENTS.


LETTER THE TWENTY-SEVENTH.
Fête-day — Friendly hint — Precautions — General tranquillity — President in San Agustin — Revisit Museum — Ancient manuscripts — Scidpture — Bronze bust, &c. — Freshness after rain — Ball at the French Minister's — Pamphlet — Gutierrez Estrada — His character — Concealment — Mexicalsingo — Minister of the Treasury — Archbishop's permission — Paintings — Mexican Painters — Santa Teresa — Description of the interior — The Penitences — Tortures — Disciplines, &c. — Supper — Profane ballads — Monasteries — San Francisco — Padre Prior — Soldiers and Friars, 1
LETTER THE TWENTY-EIGHTH.
Dia de Muertos — Leave Mexico — Herraderos — San Cristobal — Tunas — Plaza de toros — Throwing the laso — Accidents — Rustic breakfast — Country fare — Baked meat — Indian market — Buried bull — Mountain — Solitary hacienda — Reyes — Mules marked — Return — Queen of Spain's birth-day — Diplomatic dinner, 17
LETTER THE TWENTY-NINTH.
Virgin of Cavadonga — Santo Domingo — Decorations and music — Daguerreotype — Weekly soirées — An arrival — An earthquake — Honorable Mr. Broken furniture — Dias — Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe — Party to the DesiertoItzcuintepolzotli — Inn of Guajimalco — Ruined convent — Its origin — Déjeuné á la fourchette — Splendid scenery — Vow to the Virgin — Musical mass — Tacuba — Ride with the Prior, 27