Books V-IX (1519-20) translated into English and edited, with introduction and notes, by Alfred Percival Maudslay, M.A., Hon. Professor of Archaeology, National Museum, Mexico ...

Examines the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1521 which brought together two cultures that had been developing independently for at least 750 generations.

First published in 1928. 'These letters, well edited tell of a great conqueror, fighting for God and his king, and reveal the might proportions of the truly Elizabethan ...

"Taken from the despatches of Cortes and the narrative of Bernal Diaz, himself a participant in the war of the conquest."--Preface.

Written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, Hernan Cortes's letters provide a narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of ...