Letter of Hernando de Soto, and Memoir of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda.
By: Tr. from the Spanish, by Buckingham Smith.
Contributors: Escalante Fontaneda, Hernando d'., ed. and tr.; Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871.
Publisher: [Priv. print.]
Published: 1854
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 67
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Florida.; Florida -- History -- Spanish colony, 1565-1763.
Notes: "One hundred copies have been printed for G. W. Riggs."
Translated transcripts of documents in the archives at Simancas, attested by Muñoz and preserved in the Lenox library.
Table of contents: title: Letter from Hernando de Soto, in Florida, to the justice and board of magistrates in Santiago de Cuba.  July 9th, 1539.; title: Memoir of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, respecting Florida.  Written in Spain about the year 1575.; title: Notes by the translator.; title: Espiritu Santo Bay [a comparative statement of authorities relating to De Soto]; title: Titles of books and other original writings that treat of the expedition of Soto.