"Even though the purpose of this work is to illustrate the development of the Spanish language in colonial Mexico, historians will appreciate the 320 writing samples. Extracted from a variety of archival sources, the writings cover many aspects of daily life: letters, testimonials of misbehavior, petitions for favors, denunciations of witchcraft, and so forth"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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