+++ This was discouraging indeed, to be rebuffed at the outset by the padre presidente, as well as the most prominent mission administrator. There are no 1840 entries in Hartnell’s diario previ… more →
LA ROSAgoyodelarosa wrote 11 months ago: +++ This was discouraging indeed, to be rebuffed at the outset by the padre presidente, as well as … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ He is too high-spirited to spend all his time moping, or even studying. His dark good looks an … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ They agreed that a purely hedonistic life was a snare in which youth’s keen faculties cou … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ CHAPTER 5 ++ SCHOOLMASTER ++ Don Jose answered his son-in-law’s plea for advice with a … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ Besides the rendering of fat, the stretching, cleaning, and curing of hides must be commenced i … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ Don Jose received a plea for assistance dated June 7 (translation): ++ MI AMADO PADRE: ++ E … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ By spring in 1831, Hartnell had completed arrangements with members of the Soberanes family whe … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ Hartnell’s books he borrowed with avidity, and from Hartnell’s brain elicited a gre … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ Gale’s rivalry with Hartnell, at one time not unfriendly, had changed character over the … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ She was backed by her father and mother, who never ceased to believe that their English son-in- … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ ’I have been informed that you, worthy sir, intend visiting the Russian settlement Ross i … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ A typical hunting arrangement was described in February 1826 by William Hartnell to Don Jose de … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ Wyllie has no news, at the moment, but refers him to Trader Virmond “for all the news. . … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ Gervasio Arguello was to accompany his kinsman to Mexico City, as substitute ‘diputado, … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ On the heels of his British house guest came an equally interesting Frenchman, Auguste Duhaut-C … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ Perhaps this very combination of simple piety with occasional, spontaneous gaiety gave special … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ The de la Guerras owned a silver tea set adequate to serve one hundred guests. And Hartnell … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ And now Don Guillermo was asking, among other things, that company ships be permitted to enter … more →
goyodelarosa wrote 1 year ago: +++ Captain Lincoln reported to Hartnell that the vessel broke to pieces in a storm somewhere off t … more →