Documentos lingüísticos de la Nueva España

"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.