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Letter Santa Fe, to Juan Agustín Morfi, 1778 April 2

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Open book Letter Santa Fe, to Juan Agustín Morfi, 1778 April 2

Title Letter Santa Fe, to Juan Agustín Morfi, 1778 April 2

Creator Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre, d. 1792

Date 1778

Place New Mexico, New Mexico--Santa Fe

Language Spanish

Subjects Evangelistic work, Indians of North America, Pueblo Indians, Quivira (Legendary place)

Description Published in Documentos para la historia de México. Mexico : 1853-57, 3a. serie, vol. 4. English translation in Land of sunshine, XII (March- April 1900): 247-250, 309-314.
See notes on the Morfi-Escalante relationship in Without noise of arms / Walter Briggs. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Northland Press, 1776, p. 180, 185.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

Summary Letter, signed and dated April 2, 1778, from Father Escalante in Santa Fe to Father Juan Agustín Morfi, containing Escalante's research notes from Santa Fe archives on the 1680 rebellion of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and other historical events. Escalante has been sending notes from Santa Fe archives to Morfi, who is preparing a work entitled Descripción geográfica del Nuevo México, published in 1782. This letter describes the revolt of the Pueblo Indians--the Taos, Quenes, and Pecos--against the Spanish in 1680, and the attempts of Antonio de Otermín, then governor of New Mexico, to subdue the rebels. New Mexico was not retaken by the Spanish until 1692, under the command of Diego de Vargas, Zapata y Luxán Ponce de León. Escalante also includes some notes on Quivira, an imaginary city of riches; and points out that the white settlers resembling Spaniards, supposedly living across the Colorado River, were undoubtedly the Bearded Utes of whom he wrote in his journal of the 1776 expedition with Domínguez through the Great Basin.

Extent [8] leaves, bound ; 32 cm

Format Correspondence, Manuscripts

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

Link to Catalog View record

Call Number Ayer MS 1084

BibID 122757

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2779px × 3937px 31.33 MB

Filename 991227578805867_Ayer_MS_1084_00001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11E28Y

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