Good evening. My name is Carl Engström. I am originally fromUppsala, Sweden, and on the recommendati
Good evening. My name is Carl Engström. I am originally fromUppsala, Sweden, and on the recommendation of a friend who is a regular visitorto this page, I would like to share the following photograph of a document thatI found among the belongings of my great-grandfather, Martin Engström. My great-grandfather was born in 1895, and worked as aschool teacher in Stockholm. In the 1940s, he travelled to Mexico with aBritish professor from his university, James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence. Among the many articles he brought back from the country,this document was one of them, and from what my grandfather can remember, Iknow that he obtained it from a priest of a church located in a town calledYagul, Oaxaca, alluding to the fact that it was part of the evidence from awell-known case of the Spanish Inquisition against the Indians of the areaduring the 1650s. I know that he came to acquire more documents of this kind,but one of his friends by profession, Elthon Kirowan, a scholar who had a shadyreputation, asked him to examine them, without returning them. We know that helived on a farm in Sussex, England, and if it is possible, attempt could bemade to locate the family on the possibility that his relatives know thedestiny of the other documents. We do not want to give them to any museum, because they arepart of our family legacy, but I have considered sharing a photograph of it,because apparently, it is a unique piece of Mexico’s past and it deserves to beshown to a wider public. I want also to avoid what I have heard are very longprotocols in the investigatory process to expose such documents. -- source link
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