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Desiderata
1. Ltr of recommendat
to Vice Roy.
2. to Governor of
Vera Cruz — with
instructions to permitt
J.B. to go this
instance without
for
house .
3. Exemption of
for packages containing
books: subject
to search if
at Mexico
with permission
to keep them; if
products.
4. Map of Mexico —
if any to be had
in Spain.
5. Any book which
shows the articles
imported &
exported from and
manufactured in
Mexico: the
prices current
.
6. To ask if
whether this permission,
if given, should
be kept secret.
Inquired
1
Average length of
passage to Vera Cruz.
2
Freight — how much?
3
Coach whether
and what the freight?
4.
Particulars of
5.
Persons speaking English
what settled there?
6.
Merchants who have sent
goods and Captns who
carry them to Vera Cruz
their names
Inquired
1. Packet or other
regular conveyance
to Vera Cruz from
Spain — whether any
and from what parts
and what times?
2. Casual conveyances
from .
3.
whether any
form which it might
be seen what books
could not be lawfully
imported into Mexico?
1. Furniture the various
articles. From materials
price — & where made
2. Paper hangings
whether any and
whence
3. Candles — price of
wax — whether common?
4. Fire places whether
any?
5. Travel — what? and
whence?
6. Water what and
whence?
7. Paper Writing — what and
whence — price?
8. Materials of house, in
Brick Stone or Wood
9. What the
of the about the
town
10. Irish — whether any
or others speaking
English?
11. Books whether
any and what
printed them.
12 Musical instruments
and
p—435
Jany 1807
Viajero Universal
the author of which has
complete his annual of
from the
Peruvian, and the Guia
published annually at
Lima.
of Mexico
it. p.457
viz. in Vol XXVII. p.217.
13 Vermin. Bugs
whether was
with them.
14. whether
any? and what the
15. Xalapan? whether has
seen or heard of Murphy?
16. Obligation of going to
Mass, and confession?
whether ?
17. Hours of rising,
eating and sleeping
18. Mode of sleeping?
in feather beds or horse-hair
mattresses?
19. Cutlery ware, what
and whence?
20. ? how they
for provisions &c?
21. Drink — Wine.
what whence and at
what price? Buy?
22. what? whence?
prices?
23. Prints whether any
from engraving
24. Clothes — Coats
waistcoats — breeches.
shoes — stockings — what
and whence?
25. Dress of parade —
whether any used at
Court.
26
27. —
and candlesticks?
28. Vice-Roys
— what & whence?
29. Libraries — whether
any.
30. Botanic Garden?
Botanist?
31. House rent?
32. Inns and Taverns?
32. The remaining
? its banks
inhabited?
33. Paraguay Train
how much? in
with ?
34. French and English
books whether any?
35. Women — at what
age marry? at what
child bearing?
Husbands jealous?
36. Don Alvino? did
he know him?
37. Mexican antiquities?
whether any
left?
38. Courts of Justice,
open?
39. Travelling carriages
what?
40. Know if any
books giving an account
of Mexico.
41. Distance and
resting places between
Capital and Vera Cruz?
42. Physicians? their
fees? any Irish?
43. Painters
sculptors — Architects?
44. Map of Mexico
whether any
in the City?
45. What month
arrived there? from
Vera Cruz? or Acapulco?
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