From the Archives: “Lord Kingsborough’s “Antiquities of Mexico”

This finds me deep into drafting an essay, or rather a biographical sketch of a most fascinating Texas oral historian… More news about that soon. Meanwhile, from the archives, recently migrated from the old blog platform to self-hosted WordPress here at www.madam-mayo.com:

LORD KINGSBOROUGH’S ANTIQUITIES OF MEXICO
By C.M. Mayo
Originally published on Madam Mayo blog,
February 13, 2017

Source: Archive.org

Mexico has been very much on my mind these past days because I have been working on some translations of works by Mexican writers Agustín Cadena and Rose Mary Salum... more news about those soon… and also (not entirely a digression from the book in-progress about Far West Texas) I have been working on an essay about books in Mexico entitled “Dispatch from the Sister Republic.”  >> CONTINUE READING

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