[14] Harrisse (Christophe Columb, i. 65) refers to an unpublished fragment in the Lenox Library. The Ticknor Catalogue (p. 244) shows a discourse on Muñoz read before the Academy of History in 1833, as well as a criticism by Iturri on his single volume. Harrisse (Christophe Colomb, i. 65) gives the titles of other controversial publications on the subject of Muñoz’s history. Muñoz died in 1799. It is usually said that the Spanish Government prevented the continuation of his work.
[15] Christophe Colomb, i. 20.
[16] See post, p. 77. A third copy, made by Columbus’ direction was sent to his factor in Hispaniola, Alonzo Sanchez de Carvajal. This is not known; and Harrisse does not show that the archives of Santo Domingo offer much of interest of so early a date. A fourth copy was deposited in the monastery of the Cuevas at Seville, and is probably the one which his son, Diego, was directed to send to Gaspar Gorricio. Cf. Harrisse, Christophe Colomb, i. 16-23, 41, 46.
[17] This letter is given in fac-simile in the Navarrete Collection, French translation, vol. iii.
[18] This book was reprinted at Genoa in 1857, with additions, edited by Giuseppe Banchero, and translated into English, and published in 1823 in London, as Memorials of a Collection of Authentic Documents, etc. A Spanish edition was issued at Havana in 1867 (Leclerc, nos. 134, 135). Wagner, in his Colombo und seine Entdeckungen (Leipsic, 1825), makes use of Spotorno, and translates the letters. These and other letters are also given in Torre’s Scritti di Colombo; in the Lettere autografe di Colombo, Milan, 1863; and in Navarrete’s Coleccion, vol. ii. following the text of those in the Veraguas collections. Cf. North American Review, xviii. 417; xxi. 398.
[19] Dodge also translated the other letters. Photographic fac-similes of these letters are in the Harvard College Library and in the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society. See the Proceedings of the latter Society, February, 1870.
[20] Christophe Colomb, p. 11.
[21] Prescott, in the preface to his Mexico, speaks of him as “zealously devoted to letters; while his reputation as a scholar was enhanced by the higher qualities which he possessed as a man,—by his benevolence, his simplicity of manners, and unsullied moral worth.”
[22] His projected work on the Spanish navy was never printed, though a fragment of it appeared in the Memorias of the Academy of History (Ticknor Catalogue, p. 247).
[23] Leclerc says it is “difficile à trouver,” and prices it at 80 francs. The English price is from £2 to £3. A letter by Navarrete, descriptive of his Coleccion, is to be found in Zach’s Correspondance, xi. 446. Cf. also Duflot de Mofras, Mendoza et Navarrete, Paris, 1845, quoted by Harrisse, Christophe Colomb, i. 67.