| Author | Soto, Hernando de, ca. 1500-1542.
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| Title | Letter of Hernando de Soto, and Memoir of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda / translated from the Spanish, by Buckingham Smith.
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| Published | Washington : [Priv. print.], 1854.
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| Description | 67 pages : map ; 39cm.
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| General Note | "One hundred copies have been printed for G. W. Riggs."
Translated transcripts of documents in the archives at Simancas, attested by Muñoz and preserved in the Lenox library.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Letter from Hernando de Soto, in Florida, to the justice and board of magistrates in Santiago de Cuba. July 9th, 1539.--Memoir of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, respecting Florida. Written in Spain about the year 1575.--Notes by the translator.--Espiritu Santo Bay [a comparative statement of authorities relating to De Soto]--Titles of books and other original writings that treat of the expedition of Soto.
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| Subjects | Florida -- History -- Spanish colony, 1565-1763.
Indians of North America -- Florida.
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| Other Authors | Escalante Fontaneda, Hernando d'. ed. and tr.
Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871,
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| LC Card Number | 02-22596 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 125 S718 S7 Oversize
MQ156650 c.1: LC class oversize, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 93455] |
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