Details

Subject(s)

• Mayas—Wars—Mexico—Yucatán (State). [Browse]
• Maya language—Texts [Browse]
• Yucatán (Mexico : State)—History—Caste War, 1847-1855 [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Recipient

• Gala, Jose Gregorio [Browse]
• Garcia, Antonio [Browse]
• Ballesa, Nicolas [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Former owner

Gates, William, 1863-1940 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Letters—Mexico—Yucatán (State)—19th century [Browse]
• Paper [Browse]
• Correspondence—Mexico—Yucatán (State)—19th century [Browse]
• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Contained in

• Multi-title collection including Caste War letter from Jacinto Pat to Jose Munigo Vasquez, and 25 other(s).
• Robert Garrett collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s.

Compiled/​Created

[ca. 1849].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Garrett Collection (C0744).

Summary note

Autograph letter. Poot refuses to meet with the priests to talk. He cites as his reason, the conduct of the Yucatecan troops.

Language note

Text in Yucatec.

Provenance

Previously owned by William Gates; sold to Robert Garrett (purchased from William Gates in 1930); deposited by Garrett at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 1942; removed from the Institute in 1949, at Garrett's request, and donated to the Princeton University Library.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett; 1949.

Cite as

Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 57, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Mexico Yucatán.

Other title(s)

Castas de Indios

In

• Robert Garrett Collection, ca. 1340 B.C.-1900s
• Multi-title collection including Caste War letter from Jacinto Pat to Jose Munigo Vasquez, and 25 other(s).

OCLC

57525796

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