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CONTENTS.
| LETTER THE THIRTY-SEVENTH. | |
| Distinguished men — Generals Bustamante, Santa Anna and Victoria — Anecdote — Señor Pedraza — Señor Gutierrez Estrada — Count Cortina — Señor Gorostiza — Don Carlos Bustamante — "Mornings in the Alameda" — Don Andrés Quintana Roo — Don Lucas Alaman — General Moran — General Almonte — Señor Cañedo — Señors Neri del Barrio and Casaflores — Doctor Valentin — Don Francisco Tagle — Eight revolutions, | 120 |
| LETTER THE THIRTY-EIGHTH. | |
| New minister — San Angel — Profitable pulque estate — The village — Surrounding scenery — The Indians — The padre — The climate — Holy week in the country — Dramatic representations — Coyohuacan — The Pharisees — Image of the Saviour — Music and dresses — Procession — Catholicism amongst the Indians — Strange tradition — Paul the Fifth — Contrast between a Mexican and a New England village — Love of fireworks — Ferdinand the Seventh — Military ball — Drapeaux, | 130 |
| LETTER THE THIRTY-NINTH. | |
| Holy Thursday at Coyohuacan — Hernan Cortes — His last wishes — Padres Camilas — Old church — Procession — Representation of the taking of Christ — Curate's sermon under the trees — A religious drama — Good Friday — Portable pulpit — Heat — Booths — Religious procession — Simon the Cyrenian — Costumes — Curate's sermon — Second discourse — Sentence pronounced by Pontius Pilate — Descent from the cross — Procession of the Angels — Funeral hymn — The pesame to the Virgin — Sermon — "Sweet Kitty Clover" — Music in Mexico — Anecdote, | 141 |
